PLUS PINK: HHRP+ Adaptation for Women With HIV Under Community Supervision

After enrollment, participants will be randomized to either receive the intervention (treatment) from trained health educators or undergo observation as usual (control group). Randomization will be stratified by HIV serostatus. A control group is appropriate because participants will still receive services offered through probation and will be offered the intervention after completion of the trial. Subjects will be paid, not for participating in the intervention, but for providing research assessments. The newly adapted intervention will be delivered over no more than a 3-month period (it will be shorter if the adaptation process is supportive). Baseline assessments will assess the pre-intervention period. The 3-month assessment will be the end-of-intervention effects and the post-intervention assessments will be at 6, 9 and 12 months. HIV prevention knowledge will be assessed based on quizzes used previously for HHRP+; though final quiz content will depend on final selected materials for the intervention. Subjects will be followed for 12 months with assessments by trained research assistants.

The aim of this study is to adapt and pilot test the Holistic Health Recovery Program for women with and at risk for HIV (HHRP+), a CDC evidence-based secondary HIV prevention intervention, that will serve as a framework to optimize HIV treatment outcomes and reduce HIV-associated risk for women under correctional community supervision. Hypotheses 1. It will be feasible to recruit and retain HIV+ and at-risk women under community correctional supervision in the pilot study. 2. Using the ADAPT-ITT methods, we will be able to adequately adapt HHRP+ for HIV-infected and at-risk women under community supervision. 3. The adapted intervention will be feasible to implement and acceptable to participants. 4. The adapted intervention will produce higher measureable preliminary effects on HIV-focused treatment outcomes in the intervention group compared with the control group.