Table 1.

Participant sociodemographic and background characteristics (N = 46)

	M (SD) or %
Age (range 23 – 62 years)	48.9 (8.74)
Sex assigned at birth
Female	21.7
Male	78.3
Sexual and/or gender minority status	32.6
Transgender gender identity, gender fluid, gender non-conforming	4.3
African American or Black (non-Latino/Hispanic)	76.1
Latino or Hispanic	21.7
Stable housing (has their own home or apartment, including funded by government programs or benefits)	47.8
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES-R) score (range 0–14)	3.56 (3.33)
Indications of low socioeconomic status and extreme poverty
Working full-time or part-time off-the-books or on-the-books	17.4
Ran out of funds for necessities monthly or more in the past year	45.7
Food insecurity often or sometimes in past year	84.8
Engaged in transactional sex – past year	17.4
HIV-related factors
Years since HIV diagnosis at enrollment (range 3.0—30.0 years)	18.6 (7.18)
Median [Q1, Q3]	18.5 [13.3, 24.0]
Took HIV medication in the past	100
Times stopped/started HIV medication in the past (range 0—100 times)	10.6 (17.8)
Longest duration of sustained HIV medication, in months (range 0–264 months)	45.0 (62.7)
Psychosocial risk and protective factors
Alcohol use at a moderate-to-high-risk level	54.3
Cannabis use at a moderate-to-high-risk level	60.9
Cocaine or crack use at a moderate-to-high-risk level	63.0
Use of other drugs (not including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine/crack) at a moderate-to-high-risk level	28.3
Never injected drugs	87.0
Injection drug use lifetime, but not in the past 3 months	6.5
Injection drug use – past 3 months	6.5
Participated in substance use treatment in the past	78.3
Likely depression	21.7
Likely anxiety	10.9
Likely PTSD	34.8
HIV viral load
HIV viral load level at enrollment (log10 transformed)	4.28 (0.970)
Suppressed HIV viral load at 8- and/or 12- month follow-up assessment	40.0