A Community-based Intervention Among Active Drug Users in Montpellier

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The study aims to assess the effectiveness of a community-based model of HCV mass screening associated with an immediate HCV treatment on the cascade of care among active drug users (DUs) in the city of Montpellier, France.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: ANRS, Emerging Infectious Diseases; French National Institute for Health and Medical Research-French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis (Inserm-ANRS)

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age> 18 years

• Be an active drug user defined by:

1. Report current and regular (Last uptake no more than 3 days ago and at least 10 times a month) use of illicit psychoactive substances other than cannabis (heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, MDMA/ecstasy, cathinones) or misused medications (methadone, buprenorphine, opiate drugs, methylphenidate, ketamine) AND

2. Positive urine test for a psychoactive substance other than cannabis (Heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, MDMA/ecstasy, cathinones) or a misused medication (methadone, buprenorphine, opiate drugs, methylphenidate, ketamine).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Inability to understand the study

• Be under guardianship, curatorship or future protection mandate

• Lack of informed consent