PrEP Awareness and Acceptability among Women Involved in the Criminal Justice System (PRISM)

Project PRISM is funded by the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California San Francisco Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study is two-fold: 1) understand knowledge and attitudes related to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among criminal justice involved women, and 2) determine factors in both the public health and criminal justice systems that hinder or facilitate PrEP initiation among  criminal justice involved women. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with criminal justice involved women, and stakeholders from the public health and criminal justice systems. Findings from this study are being used to develop and test HIV-prevention interventions for criminal justice involved women.