Enrolment
Status
As
of December 2012 73 sites are open and 873 pairs have been enrolled.
Enrolment of new couples has been steady and we have now recruited 64%
of the required sample size.
A
business
card
has been designed at a clinic in London and used
with
great success. The business card is especially designed to target the
HIV
negative partner in sero-different couples. On
the flip
side interested participants can write their phone number/email address
to be contacted
later by a nurse. The card is “easy” for other staff
members to hand out to all
the relevant visitors in a clinic and it does not require that the
staff member
has specific knowledge about PARTNER.
Follow up Status
In the PARTNER protocol we asked couples
to
participate for 2 years. Some of the first couples were enrolled in
2010, and have now been participating in PARTNER for more than 2 years.
Therefore we would like all of you to ask those couples if they
would please continue in
PARTNER. We really appreciate all the years they can contribute to the
study. Each site
will receive an e-mail with couples that are approaching the 2 year
limit.
A year full
follow up
year for an enrolled couple includes:
1. Two visits from the HIV positive partner (2 CRF, 2
questionnaires and a minimum of 1 viral load).
2. Two visits from the HIV negative partner (2 CRF, 2
questionnaires and a minimum of 1 HIV test).
The full follow up years are really important for the study to reach
the follow up years we need. Some questionnaires do get lost when
participants take them home to fill them in. Please if possible
could
you have them fill in the questionnaires at your clinic.
To qualify for reimbursement we need all
these points of actions taken.
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Wishing you all a very
nice holiday
 
We wish you a
happy new year and thank
you for all your cooperation and support in 2012 and hope
for productive 2013.
Glasgow
HIV11
Please find below the minutes and presentation
from the investigator meeting at the conference.
Minutes
Presentation
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