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The African Community Clinical Trials education Project The African Eye Trust started the African Community Clinical Trials education Project in 2008.
This project main aim is to educate African people in the UK living with HIV on the issues related to clinical trials and encourage them to participate in the PI Monotherapy trial run by the MRC.
What do we do?
• We Organise and deliver workshops in all geographically distributed areas of UK where trials are taking place.
• we disseminated information about the trials mainly the PIVOT trial and orther trials
• Mentor people living with HIV on the PIVOT trial to finish the trial when we find found out through our UK african community networks .
• One to One support to Africans intending to go on the trial after the talk on the trial participants asked if they were eligible to join the trial .
PIVOT TrialWe have interacted with a number of africans on PIVOT trial ,it was well recived by the african community from day one ,many patients were content to join the PIVOT trial, taking one therapy bosted with Novir was very new at the time . many paients say this trial has come to save us taking one type is a good thing at the start we were taking more that 8 tablets of different types ,so taking one type as a treatment is a major achivement lets us hope we shall continues to stay on one drug.
Comments from African patients we have interacted with;
1-We have less side effects now that we are taking one drug
2- Good development if all go well
3- even felow african in resource limited countries will suvive this combination is cheap for them.
4- I cant miss my dose it is only one drug easy to take so adherence will be easy
For more infomation please do click on the link below:
http://www.ctu.mrc.ac.uk/ about_clinical_trials.aspx
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