This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837), aims to externally validate and refine an agent-based model that simulates the effects of implementation strategies on improving hypertension care guidelines for persons with HIV in Indiana. The total funding amount for this 2-year project is $118,875, with an award date of September 1, 2024. The key objectives are to: 1) externally...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director awarded a five-year, $200,000 Project Grant under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct a hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial evaluating a data-driven implementation strategy for a comprehensive care management and care coordination (CCM/CC) intervention to improve HIV care continuum outcomes. The project aims to: 1) examine the...
This Project Grant award of $162,820 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.837), supports research to develop a community-clinical linkage model to facilitate referral of people living with HIV (PLWH) and comorbid hypertension to primary healthcare centers in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. The research aims are to: 1) identify barriers and facilitators to this model, 2) co-develop a culturally-tailored,...
This $452,376 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports research to develop a predictive model for identifying HIV patients at risk of disengaging from medical care. The University of Chicago is conducting this 2-year project, which has two key objectives: Determine the performance of a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model for predicting loss to follow-up (LTFU) from HIV care across...
This Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is focused on understanding the mechanisms underlying HIV-associated hypertension and cardiovascular disease. The $641,960 award, granted to the Augusta University Research Institute, Inc. (doing business as Georgia Health Sciences), will fund research to investigate how HIV-derived proteins, specifically the Tat protein, contribute to the development of...
This federal Project Grant award, totaling $1,330,652, was provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242). The grant will fund a hybrid type-1 effectiveness-implementation trial of the "Motivation Matters!" mHealth intervention to support early antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence in HIV-positive African women engaged in sex work. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) a randomized controlled...
This $198,531 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) aims to develop and pilot test an integrated intervention that addresses mental health and HIV medication adherence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in South Africa. The proposed "WECARE" intervention will be based on principles of problem-solving therapy, minority stress theory, and a status-neutral approach to target both mental...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), provides $780,447 to the Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. in Boston, MA for the "SUSTAIN 2 STUDY - SUSTAINED HIV TREATMENT FOR ADHERENCE AFTER INTERRUPTION IN CARE". The goal of this 5-year project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a differentiated service delivery (DSD) model called "CARES-DSD" in improving viral...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,861,650.00, provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program), supports the development and national testing of a culturally tailored mHealth intervention called MASP+ that aims to address smoking cessation, mental health, and HIV disease management among Black adults with HIV. The 5-year project will involve formative research to refine the MASP+...
This $1,251,196 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports the scale-up of an evidence-based Adolescent Transition Package (ATP) to improve transitional care and outcomes for youth living with HIV in Kenya. The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: Comparing two implementation strategies for scaling up the ATP intervention - the standard Kenya Ministry of Health...