"The Women's PrEP Project," a Clinic-Based, Socio-Structural Intervention to Improve the Provision of Preexposure Prophylaxis for Cisgender Women: Interrupted Time Series Pilot.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cisgender women account for 23% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States, but there are significant socio-structural barriers to engagement and retention in the preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) cascade, particularly for women of color.

Objective

In response to the lack of evidence-based interventions to improve PrEP initiation, adherence, and persistence among women in the United States, we developed and piloted a clinic-based, socio-structural intervention to measure (1) the feasibility of delivering the adapted intervention and (2) clinic team and patient perspectives on the intervention, in preparation for a future trial on engagement and retention in the PrEP cascade among women.

Methods

We previously applied the ADAPT-ITT (Assessment, Decision, Adaptati

SUBMITTER: Scott R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12674590 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature