Depression and ART Adherence in HIV+ Latinos

Inclusion Criteria: * HIV+ participants (a) currently receiving HIV care at La Fe CARE Center (study site); * 18 years of age or older; * Latino (i.e., self-identified as being of Mexican heritage); * English- or Spanish-speaking * capable of giving informed consent; * currently on a prescribed antiretroviral regimen; * suboptimally adherent (i.e., demonstrated either by a VL load taken in the last 12 months that is above the undetectable threshold of 50 mL copies or self-reporting a missed dose in the last two weeks); * exhibiting some depressive symptomatology (i.e., scoring on the Beck Depression Inventory-1A 10 or above), and (i) male or female (including transgender Female-to-Male and Male-To-Female. Exclusion Criteria: * actively psychotic or so cognitively impaired that they cannot participate, * so physically ill as to be unable to come to the clinic to participate in the intervention, OR * Report The use of crack, cocaine, heroin, OR methamphetamines to any extent in the past 40 days. * Those who are planning on being away from the area for any extended period during the study (as in the case of seasonal workers) or whom * have household members already enrolled in the study will also be excluded. We did choose to restrict study eligibility to individuals of Mexican descent.