Financial Incentives to Increase Pediatric HIV Testing Pilot Study (FIT-Pilot)

Financial Incentives to Increase Pediatric HIV Testing Pilot Study

The aim of the pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and costs of a financial incentive intervention to motivate pediatric HIV testing in Western Kenya. The study will evaluate 3 cash incentive values and determine percent uptake of testing. A post-test questionnaire will explore parental satisfaction, mechanisms of incentive effectiveness and the impact of testing on emotional health and pediatric healthcare utilization.

The study will be a randomized trial with 3 arms (1:1:1 allocation) with small, medium, and large cash incentive. The investigators will randomize 60 parents with children of unknown status at Kisumu County Hospital in Western Kenya.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Parent/caregiver receiving HIV care
• Parent/caregiver is female
• Parent/caregiver has one or more children <13 years old
• Child is HIV exposed (parent/caregiver report or clinic confirmation)
• Caregiver reports child's HIV status is unknown

Exclusion Criteria:

-None

*The investigators reserve the right to exclude any potential enrollee who is deemed to be a high personal risk, or whose children are at high personal risk, of interpersonal violence, by study participation.