This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to assess the impact of an educational U=U (Undetectable = Untransmittable) intervention on viral suppression and HIV care outcomes in South Africa. The primary grantee, Trustees of Boston University, will refine an existing U=U mobile app and then evaluate its effectiveness through a cluster-randomized trial. The trial will enroll 880...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), will provide $647,800 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) from July 2024 through May 2026. The grant aims to characterize the waning antiviral activity of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and novel broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) during treatment interruption studies for people with HIV. The...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a $780,447 Project Grant under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. The grant, titled "THE SUSTAIN 2 STUDY - SUSTAINED HIV TREATMENT FOR ADHERENCE AFTER INTERRUPTION IN CARE", will fund a 5-year research project to evaluate the effectiveness of a differentiated service delivery (DSD) model of care to improve viral suppression and long-term engagement in HIV treatment among...
This $1,272,341 cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will support efforts to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence among men who have sex with men of color. Awarded under the HIV Demonstration, Research, Public and Professional Education Projects program (CFDA 93.941), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will work to develop and test improved HIV prevention strategies from September 2021 through October 2022. A subaward of $250,000...
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), through the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), has awarded a $264,091 Project Grant to the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) to refine and assess the feasibility and acceptability of an Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) intervention to improve HIV-related behaviors among sexual minority men. The key objectives are to: Conduct formative evaluation through interviews with 10 sexual minority men to...
This $1,415,374 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants program) aims to evaluate the integration of HIV prevention, including HIV self-testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), into household tuberculosis (TB) contact investigation in Uganda. The study has three key objectives: 1) assess the implementation and effectiveness of home-based HIV self-testing and PrEP initiation versus standard clinic referral during...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), aims to investigate the viro-immunological factors contributing to transient HIV control during consecutive analytical treatment interruptions (ATIs). The $110,414 award, effective July 18, 2024 through May 31, 2026, will enable researchers at the University of Sydney to extend their previous analysis of full-length...
This federal Project Grant award in the amount of $2,127,639.00 was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855). The purpose of the award is to develop and evaluate a multi-level integrated strategy to optimize pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence among Black men who have sex with men (MSM) and accelerate implementation at scale. The key components of the strategy include: The...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under CFDA 93.361, Nursing Research, provides $1,352,914 to George Washington University to identify multilevel facilitators that help Black sexual minority men living with HIV achieve durable viral suppression. The university will conduct qualitative interviews and ethnographic observations to understand how this "positive deviant" population overcomes racism and stigma to successfully retain in...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants provides $198,531 to Emory University to develop and pilot test an integrated intervention addressing mental health and HIV medication adherence among men who have sex with men (MSM) in South Africa. The key objectives are to conduct formative research to inform the intervention design, carry out an open pilot to refine the intervention, and then conduct a randomized pilot...