Leveraging Chatbot to Improve PrEP in the Southern United States
Leveraging Chatbot Technology to Improve PrEP Awareness and Uptake Among Black MSM in the Southern United States
- HIV Prevention
- PrEP Awareness
- PrEP Uptake
At a glance
- Phase
- Phase not stated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Sponsor
- Yale University
- Enrolment target
- 145
- Started
- 13 July 2026
- Main results due
- 31 March 2027
- Study sites
- 4
- Registry updated
- 23 September 2026
Can you take part?
- Aged 18 years and over.
- Men only.
- Healthy volunteers can take part.
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Read the full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Being cisgender Black male * Being aged ≥ 18 years * Having Internet access * Speaking English * Self-reporting condomless sex with another man in the past 6 months * Living in the U.S. South * HIV negative or untested. Exclusion Criteria: * Not residing in a U.S. Census Bureau-defined Southern state: AL, AR, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA, WV. * Having received antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment.
What this study is about
In the sponsor’s own words, from the registry.
The purpose of this study is to develop a chatbot intervention to promote PrEP awareness and uptake among Black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Southern United States.
Study sites(4)
Care 4 U Community Health Center
Miami, Florida, United States
Recruiting
Community Care Resources of FL (CCRSFL)
Pembroke Pines, Florida, United States
Recruiting
NAESM, Inc
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Recruiting
RAO Community Health
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Recruiting
Showing 4 of 4 sites. 4 of the 4 sites on this study are recruiting right now — a site can stop enrolling while the study as a whole is still open.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT05968755. Trialion does not run this study, is not paid to refer anyone to it, and cannot enrol you. Eligibility is always decided by the research team at the site.
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