Improving HIV testing, linkage, and retention in care for men through U=U messaging
Active Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- R01MH129223
- Recipient
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Desmond Tutu Health Foundation UEI YPZ6CGB3TKP8
- Awarding agency
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National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
- Obligated
- $3,974,338
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants
- Completion date 90% complete
- Place of performance
- South Africa
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Description
- Abstract
- Increasing the coverage of HIV testing and treatment among people living with HIV (PLHIV) is essential for ending the global aids epidemic. Unfortunately, compared to women, men living with HIV (MLHIV) are less likely to know their HIV status, start anti-retroviral treatment, or achieve viral suppression. Given that new HIV infections among women are driven, in part, by men's testing and treatment gaps, reducing the gender GAP in testing uptake, treatment initiation and achievement of viral suppression by men must be prioritized in order to accelerate the decline in HIV incidence among women, improve men's HIV-related health outcomes and achieve the unaids 95-95-95 goals by 2030. In this study, we evaluate the effectiveness of undetectable equals untransmittable or "U=U" messaging for closing the gender GAP in the HIV cascade. The U=U message communicates the compelling idea that PLHIV who take art and have an undetectable viral load (
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Who received award R01MH129223?
R01MH129223 was awarded to Desmond Tutu Health Foundation by National Institute of Mental Health (National Institutes of Health) on June 1, 2022.
How much is award R01MH129223 worth?
$3,974,338 has been obligated on R01MH129223.
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