Economic Navigation and Strengthening to Research Unrestricted Services for Transgender Women (ENTRUST)
The overall hypothesis is that stabilizing transgender women financially while providing them tailored counselling will increase their odds of them linking to substance use services, PrEP services if they do not have HIV, and transgender women who are living with HIV will be more adherent to their ART treatment.
• Aged ≥18 years
• Male at birth
• Identify as a woman/transgender woman
• Should not be consistently using PrEP (less than four doses per week)
• Should not have any known allergy or adverse reaction to PrEP or the active drug tenofovir in ART. One of the goals of the study is to move more people into a PrEP program
• Be able to speak and understand spoken English and/or Spanish (including persons who cannot read or write)
• Have a smart phone that can take pictures