This federal Project Grant award of $547,321 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants program, aims to develop and pilot test an intervention called "Kayungirizi" to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation and persistence among male clients of female sex workers (FSW) in Kampala, Uganda. The key components of the intervention involve: 1) Secondary distribution of HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits by FSW to their male...
This $431,712 federal Project Grant award 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 2-year grant, awarded to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, will fund an innovative approach to increase pediatric HIV testing by adapting a successful traditional healer-facilitated HIV testing program for children 18 months to 5 years...
This $772,055 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) will fund a 5-year study to test the efficacy of the "Kisoboka" intervention in reducing hazardous alcohol use and improving antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among men living with HIV in Ugandan fishing communities. The study will use a 2x2 factorial randomized controlled trial design to evaluate the individual and combined...
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...
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a $6,749,031 cooperative agreement titled "The USHINDI Project" under the Global AIDS program (CFDA 93.067) to the Association De Sante Familiale (ASF), a local non-profit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with support from PATH, a U.S.-based international NGO. The project aims to enhance access to comprehensive HIV/AIDS services and achieve epidemic control in seven health zones in Haut-Katanga province...
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, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports a comprehensive longitudinal study to assess the long-term immunologic, cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurocognitive outcomes in individuals with perinatal HIV exposure in Kenya. The $756,077 award, effective August 2024 through April 2029, aims to determine whether viral suppression on prolonged antiretroviral...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $898,186 to Spotted TECH LLC, a woman-owned small business in Louisiana, to develop and validate an innovative home-based, mail-in CD4 count test for people living with HIV (PLWH). The primary objective is to create the "CD4-LINK" kit, which will allow PLWH to self-collect a dried blood spot sample and mail it to a lab for CD4 count...
This $1,325,208 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) supports a research study in Zambia to evaluate sequential strategies for returning individuals with HIV care lapses to treatment and keeping them re-engaged long-term. The prime awardee is Washington University, which is partnering with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) and Seoul National University to implement the study. The project aims...