Mirjam-Colette Kempf, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor in the UAB School of Nursing, has received a three-year, $683,443 grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health for her project, Telemedicine to Improve Depression and Adherence in HIV-Positive Women in the Rural South.
Its goal is to adapt an established and effective cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression and antiretroviral therapy adherence and test its feasibility and acceptability to HIV care-adherence among HIV-infected minority women living in the rural South.