This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) provides $2,155,836 to the University of Miami to conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluating two social network strategies to increase the reach of HIV self-testing and PrEP information. The goal of the "TEST-TO-PREP" project is to assess the effectiveness, resource needs, and implementation factors of a...
This Project Grant award, worth $367,332.00 and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research), will support the "Precision HIV Prevention: Piloting a Youth Learning Health Community" project at Florida State University. The project aims to develop and test implementation strategies for optimizing the delivery of evidence-based HIV prevention interventions tailored for youth in North Florida, a region with high...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $616,742.00 to the New York Blood Center, Inc. to conduct research on the impact of geographic mobility on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and HIV care outcomes among Latino gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in New York City. The study aims to characterize patterns of geographic mobility and determine how past-year...
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 $911,400.00 over 5 years starting August 2024 to establish the PREMISE (PREP Epidemiology, Modeling, and Surveillance) system. The goal is to use national PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) data, legal/policy coding, and natural experimental designs to inform the U.S. HIV epidemic response and facilitate PrEP...
This $128,247 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program will support a mixed-methods social network study focused on Latinx men who have sex with men (LMSM) in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The study aims to: 1) characterize the social networks and online gaming habits of LMSM, 2) understand how these networks can be leveraged to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) awareness and disseminate...
The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded a $10,908,988 Cooperative Agreement to the Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDOH) on August 1, 2024 under the HIV Prevention Activities Non-Governmental Organization Based Program (CFDA 93.939). The award will support comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment services in Puerto Rico over a 5-year performance period ending May 31, 2029. Key services to be delivered include HIV testing and...
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), provides $702,000 to optimize the implementation of long-acting injectable PrEP (LAI-PrEP) in the United States. The key objectives are to: (1) identify barriers and facilitators to LAI-PrEP implementation, (2) determine optimal implementation strategies in partnership with stakeholders, and (3) pilot an implementation strategy...
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), provides $825,988 to Yale University to conduct research aimed at reducing HIV incidence across the United States. The key objectives are to: Create transportation-based measures of PrEP accessibility at the county and zip code levels for both urban and rural areas. Use Bayesian spatial analyses to quantify how factors like...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants supports a research study to enhance access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for Black and Latinx sexual minority men in the Bronx, New York. The $252,000 award to Albert Einstein College of Medicine aims to: 1) co-design and validate a system dynamics model identifying factors influencing PrEP engagement for this population, and 2) use the model to determine the...
The University of South Florida (USF) received a $389,527 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) to conduct a study examining strategies and contextual factors that optimize the delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention in Kenya. The key products and services to be delivered through this two-year project include: Identifying implementation strategies and contextual factors that...