Depression and ART Adherence in HIV+ Latinos

Inclusion Criteria:

• HIV+ participants (a) currently receiving HIV care at La Fe CARE Center (study site);
• 18 years of age or older;
• Latino (i.e., self-identified as being of Mexican heritage);
• English- or Spanish-speaking
• capable of giving informed consent;
• currently on a prescribed antiretroviral regimen;
• suboptimally adherent (i.e., demonstrated either by a VL load taken in the last 12 months that is above the undetectable threshold of 50 mL copies or self-reporting a missed dose in the last two weeks);
• exhibiting some depressive symptomatology (i.e., scoring on the Beck Depression Inventory-1A 10 or above), and (i) male or female (including transgender Female-to-Male and Male-To-Female.

Exclusion Criteria:

• actively psychotic or so cognitively impaired that they cannot participate,
• so physically ill as to be unable to come to the clinic to participate in the intervention, OR
• Report The use of crack, cocaine, heroin, OR methamphetamines to any extent in the past 40 days.
• Those who are planning on being away from the area for any extended period during the study (as in the case of seasonal workers) or whom
• have household members already enrolled in the study will also be excluded. We did choose to restrict study eligibility to individuals of Mexican descent.