Cooperative Agreement 72061722FA00003

This federal Project Grant award, with funding of $431,712.00 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research), aims to improve HIV testing among children under five in rural Uganda. The project has two key objectives: To determine barriers and facilitators to pediatric HIV testing and adapt a traditional healer-facilitated HIV testing program for children aged 18 months to 5 years. This will involve interviews with...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the federal Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $707,796 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to study the effectiveness of a loyalty program intervention called Malkia Klabu (MK) that aims to increase access to HIV prevention services and contraception for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa through drug shops. The key products...

This Project Grant award of $160,000 from the Department of State Bureau of African Affairs supports efforts by Adpp Angola under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Programs (CFDA 19.029) to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Angola. Key deliverables include strengthening HIV care and treatment at health facilities, increasing community engagement, and building clinical laboratory and supply chain infrastructure from August 6, 2021 to September 30, 2021....

This $1,800,000 five-year Cooperative Agreement award from the National Center for HIV/AIDS (part of the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) under the HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based program (CFDA 93.940) will support the Hamilton County Public Health Department in Ohio to expand access to HIV prevention, testing, and treatment services, with a focus on reaching vulnerable populations such as women, sex workers, transgender...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research aims to inform optimal investments along the preconception to postpartum continuum for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa. The $539,000 award, effective August 22, 2024 through July 31, 2029, will utilize simulation-based modeling and decision science to evaluate the...

This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $756,077 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 award supports a 5-year longitudinal study to examine the long-term immunologic, cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurocognitive consequences of inflammation in children with perinatal HIV in sub-Saharan Africa who have achieved viral suppression on long-term...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs, provided under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program (CFDA 19.029), supports a community-led monitoring initiative to improve the quality of HIV care services in Zambia. The $104,988 award, granted on March 18, 2024, will enable the recipient organization, Family Development Initiatives LIMITED, to train local community members to collect client feedback on...

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 $146,550 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program will support a mixed methods research study to investigate the impact of mental health distress, intimate partner violence (IPV), and female caregiver-adolescent girl communication on HIV risk behaviors among South African adolescent girls and young women (SA-AGYW). The study will conduct secondary analyses of...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $1,566,226 to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of a couples-based shared decision-making intervention called CUPID within the Catalyst demonstration project in Uganda. The goal is to improve the uptake, persistence, and adherence of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV...