Improving HIV Prevention Among Hispanic Women Through a Community-Researcher Partnership: Florida, 2020-2023.
The need for culturally grounded, evidence-based HIV prevention interventions targeting preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV testing for Hispanic women prompted us to adapt the evidence-based SEPA (Salud/Health, Educación/Education, Prevención/Prevention, Autocuidado/Self-Care) intervention into the SEPA+PrEP intervention. We collaborated with community-based organizations and a community advisory board to adapt the intervention and implemented the adaptation with 44 Hispanic women participants. Our findings demonstrate the successful, community-informed adaptation of the SEPA+PrEP intervention as a biobehavioral intervention, with acceptability and feasibility supported by high levels of participant satisfaction, engagement, retention, and completion.
Authors
- Joseph P. De Santis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-7876)
- María José Baeza Robba
- Nilda Peragallo Montano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7947-3406)
- José G. Castro (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8642-1724)
- Giovanna Cecilia De Oliveira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4776-4342)
- Rosina Cianelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4294-5569)
- Evelyn Iriarte (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9618-7898)
- Susan Rubio Rivera
- Natalia Villegas
Institutions
- University of Miami (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2026-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2026.308483
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00