Cooperative Agreement 72061322CA00006

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $205,235 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to conduct a combined microeconomic strengthening and stigma reduction intervention for young people with HIV in Zambia. The key products/services being delivered through this funding include: An 8-week program with two experimental components: (i) a stigma reduction support group providing...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a five-year, $710,187 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to adapt and evaluate the Comprehensive Adherence Resource and Empowerment Support (CARES) intervention for increasing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence and continuation among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt the CARES intervention to incorporate injectable PrEP and...

This Project Grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs provided $120,179.59 to Ciheb Zambia LIMITED for community-led monitoring to improve the quality of HIV care in Zambia through client feedback. The grant was awarded on April 1, 2021 with a completion date of January 31, 2022. Under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Programs (CFDA 19.029), the grantee and three sub-awardees—Ndekeleni Development Foundation, Youth Development Organisation, and...

This federal Project Grant award of $685,637 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research aims to enhance research on inflammation and cognitive health among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living with perinatally acquired HIV (PHIV) and adversity in Uganda. The award supports a comprehensive study to investigate the relationship between immune dysfunction, inflammation, and...

This $3,640,897 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will fund a cluster randomized trial to assess the effectiveness of a multisectoral climate-smart agricultural intervention called "Shamba Maisha" in improving reproductive and sexual health outcomes among adolescent girls and young women in Western Kenya. The intervention involves providing households with agricultural tools and...

This $2,567,596 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support a multi-year research study on the long-term impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on the health and wellbeing of young adults in Malawi, a low-income country. The primary objectives are to: 1) Estimate the longitudinal impacts of ACEs on sexual, reproductive, and...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $707,796 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to extend and evaluate the implementation and sustainability of the "Malkia Klabu" (MK) intervention. The MK program aims to create youth-friendly drug shops where adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa can access HIV prevention...

The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $110,000 project grant to Treatment Advocacy And Litera CY Campaign to implement the COMMUNITY LED MONITORING TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF HIV CARE IN ZAMBIA THROUGH CLIENT FEEDBACK project from March 1, 2022 to December 30, 2022. Under this award, Treatment Advocacy And Litera CY Campaign will work to improve HIV care quality in Zambia by establishing a community-led monitoring program that gathers client feedback. The grant is part of the...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will provide $146,550 to the University of Illinois to conduct research on the social and behavioral drivers of HIV risk among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa. The study will use a mixed-methods approach to examine the roles of mental health distress, intimate partner violence, and...

This federal Project Grant award, R21HD114519, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The $237,441 award supports a two-year study to investigate the sustainability and fidelity of an evidence-based HIV prevention program in schools in the Bahamas over a four-year period following the initial implementation. The study aims to: 1) evaluate the sustained delivery of...