Feasibility, acceptability, and user perspective of a next-generation wrist-worn receiver and digital pills for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis: a pilot study (opens in new tab)

ObjectiveThe objective of this study was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the next-generation wrist-worn receiver (“Reader”) coupled with the ID-Cap digital pill system (DPS) to measure adherence to oral HIV PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) via an ingestible radiofrequency sensor.MethodsThis prospective cohort study enrolled 15 participants who were prescribed oral tenofovir diphosphate/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) as PrEP. Participants were asked to ingest one digital pill daily for ...