Cooperative Agreement ASTWH190075

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a $6,612,901 Cooperative Agreement under the HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based program (CFDA 93.940) to the Health Services Kentucky Cabinet For to implement high-impact HIV prevention, surveillance, and treatment efforts across Kentucky. The funding supports comprehensive initiatives focused on reducing HIV transmission, improving health outcomes for people living with...

The National Center for HIV/AIDS, a civilian agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has awarded a $1,200,000 Cooperative Agreement to Matthew 25 Aids Services Inc., a non-profit organization in Henderson, Kentucky. The purpose of this 5-year award (08/01/2024 - 07/31/2029) is to "ENHANCE SEXUAL HEALTH IN RURAL KENTUCKY: A WHOLE-PERSON APPROACH FOR HIGH-RISK POPULATIONS" under the HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based program (CFDA...

This National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support Program (CFDA 93.310) Project Grant award of $844,564 to Emory University aims to develop an implementation strategy to link adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) options, including long-acting PrEP modalities. The formative research will involve qualitative interviews and a survey with IPV-exposed AGYW and key informants...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), provides $444,826 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to develop and pilot test an innovative, trauma-informed intervention approach for reducing overdose risk among women re-entering the community from prison. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Adapting the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) approach to...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $699,934 from the National Center for HIV/AIDS (a division of the Department of Health and Human Services) under the HIV Demonstration, Research, Public and Professional Education Projects (CFDA 93.941) program will support a 4-year project titled "MARI: Refining and Pilot Testing an Intervention to Improve PrEP Uptake Among Marginalized Black Cisgender Women (PREP-WISE)." The project aims to develop and test a new intervention to increase...

This is a Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310). The $677,589 grant will fund a pilot feasibility study to adapt and test a program that links incarcerated women at high risk for HIV to post-release pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) services and social support. The program, called "FIT for PrEP" (F4P), is designed to address individual and structural barriers that women face when re-entering the...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $836,895 to Baylor College of Medicine to develop and evaluate communication strategies to promote uptake of a future HIV vaccine among Black women ages 18-34 in the southern United States. The 5-year study will use community-based participatory research methods to engage young Black women in co-creating and testing theory-based message features,...

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) awarded a $2,933,274 Project Grant (CFDA 93.361 - Nursing Research) to The Johns Hopkins University to implement and evaluate a Trauma and Violence Informed Care (TVIC) intervention. The goal is to improve HIV-related and mental health outcomes by addressing the social determinants of health, such as intimate partner violence (IPV), housing instability, and food insecurity, among women living with HIV/AIDS in Baltimore. The TVIC intervention...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (CFDA 93.279 - Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs) provides $194,380 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to develop and evaluate a peer-facilitated telehealth intervention to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation and retention among people who inject drugs in Appalachian Kentucky. The project aims to: 1) Collaborate with local health departments to develop a low-threshold PrEP intervention for...

The West Virginia State Health Department was awarded a $1,307,687 Cooperative Agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the HIV Prevention Activities Health Department Based federal grant program (CFDA 93.940). The award, with a performance period from August 1, 2024 to May 31, 2029, will fund a comprehensive HIV prevention and surveillance program to increase HIV testing, prevent new infections, improve health outcomes for people living with HIV, and...