DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofag609 ISSN: 2328-8957
Operational Lessons from Implementing Public Health Data-Based Recruitment and Home-Based STI Screening to Enroll a Cohort of Women Vulnerable to HIV in Alabama
Jiaying Hao, Desiree Phillips, Madeline C Pratt, Nuvan Rathnayaka, Kara Bennett, Anthony Merriweather, Lisa Hightow-Weidman, Henna Budhwani, Kathleen Hurwitz, Aadia I Rana, Latesha E Elopre, Lynn T MatthewsAbstract
The Camellia Cohort enrolls women with recent (past 90 days) gonorrhea or syphilis reported to the Alabama State Health Department. Eligible women are contacted to complete consenting procedures and home-based STI/HIV screening. Recruitment processes and strategies are refined based on interim findings, then modified to optimize recruitment yield.