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Client-Centered Adherence Counseling with Adherence Measurement Feedback to Support Use of the Dapivirine Ring in MTN-025 (The HOPE Study)

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Fostering adherence and open communication about adherence challenges is key to harnessing the potential of biomedical HIV prevention products. We describe the counseling intervention and objective adherence measure feedback process implemented to support adherence to the dapivirine vaginal ring among participants in four sub-Saharan countries and present findings on the counselors’ likeability and acceptability of the intervention. Most counselors (N = 42; 86%) liked Options counseling “very much” and during in-depth interviews (N = 22), reported that the intervention reshaped their adherence counselling approach by emphasizing understanding participants’ experiences using the ring, which facilitated open discussion of adherence challenges. Counselors found that reframing residual drug level (RDL) discussions from the “adherence” to “protection” perspective encouraged adherence among consistent users and facilitated decisions to switch to a different HIV prevention approach among infrequent users. Among counselors, 24% said participants “liked it very much” while 26% said that participants “liked it a little” possibly due to two main complaints: perceived repetitiousness of sessions and variability in the RDL assay, which at times resulted in unexpected low RDLs.

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Fomentar la adherencia y la comunicación abierta sobre los desafíos con la adherencia es clave para aprovechar el potencial de los productos biomédicos de prevención del VIH. Describimos la intervención de consejería y el proceso de compartir los resultados de medidas objetivas de adherencia con participantes en cuatro países subsaharianos para apoyar la adherencia al anillo vaginal de dapivirine y presentamos los resultados sobre la agradabilidad y la aceptabilidad de la intervención a los consejeros. A la mayoría de los consejeros (N=42; 86%) “les gustó mucho” la consejería quienes, durante entrevistas en profundidad (N=22) y reportaron que la intervención cambió su aproximación a la consejería sobre la adherencia. Se enfocaban más en comprender la experiencia de uso del anillo entre las participantes, lo cual facilitaba una conversación abierta sobre posibles desafíos a la adherencia. Los consejeros encontraron que cambiar el enfoque de “adherencia” a “protección” en las conversaciones sobre los niveles residuos de drogas fomentaba la adherencia entre las mujeres que usaban el anillo consistentemente y facilitaba la decisión de cambiar a otro método de prevención del VIH entre las mujeres que lo usaban con poca frecuencia. Entre los consejeros, 24% dijeron que a las participantes “les gustó mucho” la consejería y 26% que a las participantes “les gustó un poco”. Es posible que esto se deba a dos quejas principales: la percepción de que las sesiones sean repetitivas y la variabilidad en el ensayo de los niveles residuos de drogas, lo cual a veces resultaba en niveles bajos inesperados.

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Acknowledgements

The authors declare no conflicts of interest. The authors wish to thank the entire HOPE study team, especially the HOPE study counselors and participants. This study was designed and implemented by the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases through individual grants (UM1AI068633, UM1AI068615 and UM1AI106707), with co-funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Mental Health, all components of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health through a center grant (P30-MH43520, PI: Remien). The vaginal rings used in this study were developed and supplied by the International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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  1. HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Unit 15, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Iván C. Balán, Rebecca Giguere, Cody Lentz, Bryan A. Kutner & Clare Kajura-Manyindo

  2. Department of Counseling, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA

    Clare Kajura-Manyindo

  3. Department of Social Sciences, Essex County College, Newark, NJ, USA

    Clare Kajura-Manyindo

  4. Makerere University – Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration CRS, Kampala, Uganda

    Rose Byogero & Florence Biira Asiimwe

  5. University of North Carolina Lilongwe Clinical Research Site, Lilongwe, Malawi

    Yvonne Makala

  6. University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Zengeza Clinical Trials Unit, Harare, Zimbabwe

    Jane Jambaya

  7. South African Medical Research Council Tongaat Clinical Trials Unit, Durban, South Africa

    Nombuso Khanyile

  8. CAPRISA Clinical Trials Unit for AIDS/Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment, Durban, South Africa

    Diane Chetty

  9. Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, MD, USA

    Lydia Soto-Torres

  10. FHI360, Durham, USA

    Ashley Mayo

  11. University of Zimbabwe – University of California San Francisco Collaborative Research Program, Harare, Zimbabwe

    Nyaradzo M. Mgodi

  12. Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Thesla Palanee-Phillips

  13. Departments of Global Health, Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Jared M. Baeten

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Balán, I.C., Giguere, R., Lentz, C. et al. Client-Centered Adherence Counseling with Adherence Measurement Feedback to Support Use of the Dapivirine Ring in MTN-025 (The HOPE Study). AIDS Behav 25, 447–458 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-03011-z

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