HIV Prevention Tablet for Minority-Focused Effective Behavioral Interventions

DESCRIPTION: NIH and CDC continue to prioritize efforts to decrease HIV transmission rates and increase care for people living with HIV, especially among minority populations that are disproportionately carrying the weight of the epidemic. Despite the success of effective behavioral interventions (EBIs) among diverse high-risk populations and significant resources dedicated to replicating them, many factors still obstruct the wide dissemination and sustained implementation of these EBIs, such as lack of technical assistance, organizational capacity, staff buy-in, program fit, and challenges to adaptation. Harnessing the recent proliferation of mobile tablet computers and their increasing use in pedagogy and healthcare, this project will leverage the specificbenefits afforded by tablets (personalization, connectedness, mobility, and improved learning outcomes) to improve the implementation and diffusion of HIV prevention EBIs aimed at populations of special interest to NIH's National Center for Minority