Increasing HIV/STI Home Testing Via a Digital Intervention Among Black Women

There will be 5 sessions of the intervention, all of which will follow the same format. Participants will be sent push notifications for each session. Each session will begin with using relevant constructs from sIMB (i.e., information and behavioral skills). Next, participants will choose positive outcomes resulting from the behavior, barriers to performing the behavior (mental contrasting), select situational cues and action plans to overcome selected barriers (implementation intentions), and practice typing in implementation intentions and positive outcomes from memory (memory practice). To ensure participants retain the implementation intentions, the investigators will use memory practice. Participants will be asked to self-code if the participant is correct or incorrect. Lastly, participants will learn behavioral skills to engage in each of the 5 actions to increase self-efficacy.

Participants will receive the HIV/STI home testing kit, instructions to mail in the kit, notification when results are ready to check online, treatment from a provider at Kind Clinic for positive results, and referral to Kind Clinic for PrEP. Each session and assessment will occur every 3 days. Session 1: Basic information about STIs. Session 2: HIV and stigma, basic information about HIV, and HIV transmission facts and myths. Session 3: Four stories about different people who are HIV-positive, how HIV was contracted, and one story about a woman who contracted herpes and how to all cope and live healthy lives. Session 4: How to disclose positive STI status. Session 5: Basic information about PrEP, and information on how to correctly use a male condom, female condom, and dental dam.