Cooperative Agreement AID688A1400005

This Project Grant award of $608,507 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) supports the development, implementation, and evaluation of a training program on the treatment of health complications due to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Tanzania. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year award include: 1) conducting a social ecological needs assessment to...

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), provides $781,926 to Emory University to develop and pilot test an innovative intervention to improve postpartum family planning (PPFP) services in Zambia. The key activities include conducting formative research to evaluate structural, contextual, individual, and couple-level factors influencing healthy...

This federal 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 $186,319 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to adapt and test an intervention to reduce HIV-related stigma among pregnant and postpartum women in sub-Saharan Africa. The key activities include: 1) Describing the stigma experiences and mental health impacts of women living with HIV during...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), under the Cancer Cause and Prevention Research (CFDA 93.393) program, aims to develop and evaluate an evidence-based, behavioral cervical cancer screening intervention for women living with HIV in Ghana. The $511,959 award to Baylor University will fund a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial to integrate and scale up a home-based HPV self-sampling and communication model intervention called HOPE. The project seeks to...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to improve strategies for post-cesarean surgical site infection (SSI) monitoring by validating and updating two existing image-based diagnostic algorithms. The $741,747 award will support the prospective follow-up of 6,000 women across three countries (Rwanda, Ghana, and Mexico) to assess the generalizability of the...

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded a 5-year, $706,365 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 93.393 - Cancer Cause and Prevention Research) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to implement the WHO-endorsed "screen, triage, and treat" (ISTAR) approach for cervical cancer screening among women living with HIV in La Romana, Dominican Republic. The project aims to sustain implementation of the ISTAR approach and generate new data to inform effective and equitable...

This Project Grant award from the John E. Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) provides $108,237 to Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda to develop and assess the feasibility of a diagnostic tool for post-tuberculosis (TB) lung disease that can be deployed in primary healthcare settings. The key objectives are to: (1) create and validate a clinical diagnostic algorithm for post-TB lung disease, (2) conduct qualitative...

This $187,491 federal Project Grant award was provided by the Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to develop and test a digital health tool for assessing and reducing intersectional stigma in order to improve HIV care in ART centers in Nepal. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year grant include: Intervention design, pre-piloting, and execution of the INCLUDE digital health tool, in...

This $691,176 Project Grant awarded by the National Cancer Institute (CFDA 93.393 - Cancer Cause and Prevention Research) will fund a study to compare two implementation strategies for decentralizing breast ultrasound services and improving timely breast cancer diagnoses in Rwanda. The study will be conducted by Brigham & Women's Hospital in partnership with sub-awardees Sloan-Kettering Institute, Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania, and Partners In Health. The two...

This federal Project Grant award of $174,511 from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) aims to develop an effective education strategy to increase provider proficiency with evidence-based interventions that can be scaled up worldwide. The key products and services to be delivered include: Determining if the addition of tailored skills training increases refresher knowledge assignment completion above 60% for...