Peer-led HIV care and the UNAIDS 90-90-90 treatment targets in Sidama Ethiopia: A cluster randomized trial and economic evaluation of Teach-Test- Link-Trace model (TTLT) trial

Abstract

This study aims to test a new and comprehensive intervention program, never been implemented in Ethiopia before, called the teach-test-link-trace (TTLT) model. The TTLT model involves HIV positive volunteer patients (peer educators) who do HIV counselling (teach), perform HIV testing (test) through HIV self-testing (HIVST) and house-to-house HIV

testing (H2H), link HIV positive patients to HIV care (link) and trace lost patients house-to- house (trace).