| Trial name or title |
Family‐Based HIV Voluntary counselling and testing in Patients at Risk for Tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda |
| Methods |
Randomised controlled trial involving 600 households of index TB patients or those suspected to have TB and compare uptake of testing between home‐based VCT and TB‐clinic‐based VCT for family and household members |
| Participants |
Household members of patients being evaluated for TB |
| Interventions |
Home‐based voluntary counselling and testing |
| Outcomes |
Uptake of VCT and linkage of those who test HIV‐positive to care |
| Starting date |
2007 |
| Contact information |
Dr Edwin Charlebois, University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| Notes |
This study has started recruiting patients at the TB clinic in Mulago Kampala and is expected to stop recruitment in 2011 |
