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Testing a Mobile App for HIV Prevention and Substance Use Treatment

This study is testing a web-based application called PA Links. This app aims to help women who have recently been involved with the justice system (like jail or parole) connect with healthcare and social services. The goal is to improve their access to PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis), a medication to prevent HIV, and MOUD (medications for opioid use disorder), which helps treat opioid addiction. Researchers want to see if this app can help women get and stay on these important treatments. You may be able to join if you are a woman, 18 or older, have been in the carceral system in the last six months, speak English, and have not been diagnosed with HIV but have HIV risk factors. The study plans to enroll 74 participants, but its current status is unclear.

Study design
This is an interventional study that plans to enroll 74 women. It will test the PA Links web-based application.
What's involved
Not specified in the trial record.
Compensation
Not stated in the trial record.
Follow-up
The study measures PrEP and MOUD linkage immediately after the intervention, which is at 3 months.

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NCT07432555

Testing a Mobile Health Application to Improve HIV Prevention and Substance Use Treatment Among Women Involved in the Carceral System

Not Yet Recruiting
NAAges 18+InterventionalPrevention
Temple University
~74 participants
Updated 2026-05-13 on ClinicalTrials.gov
What's tested:Tool to provide re-entry support and improve linkage to healthcare and social services

At a glance

Recruiting sites
0 of 1 listed site is recruiting right now
RecruitingSuspended, closed, or not yet open
What they're measuring
Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) linkage
Measured over Immediate post intervention (3 months)
+1 more outcome measured

Conditions

Substance Abuse
HIV

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Where it's being run

1 sites across 1 states
Pennsylvania1

Who to contact

Sarah Bass, MPH, PhD
[email protected]
215-204-0377
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Eligibility criteria

Inclusion

18 of years of age or older
Self-identified woman
Previous experience (past six months) with the carceral system (jail, prison, on parole or under supervision)
Speaks and reads English
Self-reported negative HIV status
Indicates at least one HIV risk (i.e. any of the following in the past 6 months or in the six months prior to the most recent incarceration that call for consideration of PrEP as per the CDC risk indices: have engaged in condomless sex; have an HIV-positive sex partner; have had an STI; have had multiple \[\>6\] partners; have engaged in transactional sex; have injected drugs, shared injection or drug use preparation equipment, or have been enrolled in opiate substitution therapy because of IDU; previous overdose)
Self-report using opioids in the past six months or six months prior to the most recent incarceration (prescription or not) OR self-report using medications for opioid use disorder in the past year.
Have access to the internet through some device - smart phone, computer or tablet (personal or at community location such as library or organization)

Exclusion

Under 18 years old
Does not read or speak English
Does not identify as a woman
Has been diagnosed with HIV
Does not have previous experience with the criminal legal system within the last 6 months
Does not have HIV risk in last six months or six months prior to being incarcerated
Has not used opioids in past six months or six months prior to being incarcerated or MOUD in last year
Does not have access to internet
Cannot provide informed consent

What this trial measures

  • Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) linkageImmediate post intervention (3 months)

    Assess via medical record whether participant has been linked to PrEP services. Yes/No

  • Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) LinkageImmediate post intervention (3 months)

    Assess via medical record whether participant has been linked to MOUD services. Yes/No