Research is lacking on the association between patient-physician relationships and antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among HIV-positive U.S. Latinos, who are disproportionately infected with HIV/AIDS and face barriers to HIV care and treatment. The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between patient-physician dialogue surrounding adherence and ART adherence, to inform potential areas of intervention to improve patient-provider communication surrounding adherence. This project is a part of a parent study entitled: "Barriers to Care and Treatment Practices in HIV-positive Latinos in the US-Mexico Border Region" whose aims are to assess binational health care seeking behavior, barriers to HIV care and HIV treatment utilization among HIV-positive Latinos along the US-Mexico border. Participants in San Diego, U.S. and Tijuana, Mexico answered a survey administered by trained interviewers, those who responded to questions from physician-patient relationship quality scale measures "Overall communication" and "Adherence dialogue" with their physician (Schneider et al., 2004) (n=199) were included in this study. We used logistic regression to identify factors independently associated with high satisfaction with both overall communication and adherence dialogue. Participants were 41 years old (SD=10), 77% male, single (67%), and with less than a high school education (61%). Being male, high school educated or having made 1 or more round trip border crossings in the last 6 months were associated with increased odds of high satisfaction with overall patient-provider communication and patient-provider ART adherence dialogue (p

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