Addressing Psychosocial Comorbidities in HIV Treatment and Prevention



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Depression, HIV / AIDS, HIV / AIDS, HIV / AIDS, Psychiatric
Therapuetic Areas:Immunology / Infectious Diseases, Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - 65
Updated:9/13/2018
Start Date:March 2016
End Date:August 2021
Contact:Steven A Safren, PhD
Email:ssafren@miami.edu
Phone:305-243-3471

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Addressing Psychosocial Comorbidities in HIV Treatment and Prevention: Phase 2

Project AProaCH is an open pilot trial of a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for
individuals with HIV with various psychological comorbidities, which the investigators call
"syndemics". Syndemics are co-occurring psychosocial problems that interact with each other
and with health behavior such as HIV sexual transmission risk behavior and adherence to self
care.


Inclusion Criteria:

- HIV+ individuals

- Uncontrolled virus (plasma HIV RNA concentrations that reach detectable limits) or
being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) (gonorrhea, chlamydia,
syphilis, trichomoniasis (female only)) currently or within the past 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent

- Active untreated, unstable, major mental illness (i.e., untreated psychosis or mania)
that would interfere with study participation

- Opinion of the PI that the participant would be at risk for harm to himself or others
as a result of study participation,

- Under the age of 18 or over the age of 65,

- Current CBT for a psychiatric disorder, or a course of CBT in the past year.
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