The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.361), awarded a $114,866 project grant to The Ohio State University to conduct a mixed methods study on approaches from the perspectives of sexual and gender minority (SGM) clients and primary care clinicians that facilitate awareness, uptake, and persistence of same-day pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (DoxPEP) in the primary care setting. The...
This $677,589 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director's Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports the development and pilot testing of a novel HIV prevention program targeting women experiencing incarceration. The "FIT for PrEP" (F4P) program aims to link these high-risk women to post-release pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) services and address associated social determinants of health during community re-entry. Key aspects...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), awarded a $911,400 Project Grant to Emory University to establish the PREMISE (PrEP Epidemiology, Modeling, and Surveillance) system. The goal is to use national PrEP prescription data, legal/policy coding, and natural experimental designs to inform the U.S. HIV epidemic response and understand which programs and policies are effective at facilitating...
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $2,155,836 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to the University of Miami. The funding will support a 5-year, randomized hybrid implementation/effectiveness trial titled "TEST-TO-PREP: A Randomized Hybrid Implementation/Efficacy Trial of a Social Network Strategy to Increase Equitable Reach of HIV Testing and PrEP Information." The study aims to evaluate the...
This Project Grant award, totaling $1,953,293, was provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279). The funding supports research to optimize delivery of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) care for underserved rural people who inject drugs (PWID) in Kentucky. The study will deploy stepped-care adaptive interventions across three rural syringe service programs to identify optimal pathways for increasing PrEP initiation and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a $1,554,880 initiative titled "Integrating PrEP Decision-Making into Contraceptive Counseling in Family Planning Clinics". The award aims to expand and enhance an existing PrEP decision aid, and integrate its delivery into sexual and reproductive health settings during contraceptive counseling visits, to increase PrEP access and uptake...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research program (CFDA 93.361), provides $398,744 in funding to the University of South Carolina to study racial and ethnic disparities in HIV care outcomes in the Southern United States. The project aims to identify spatiotemporal patterns and contributing factors for disparities along the HIV care continuum, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research will leverage existing...
This Project Grant award of $665,225 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants (CFDA 93.242) program, will fund the "SUUBI4PREP: Improving PrEP Access and Adherence among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Uganda" project. The project aims to implement a multilevel combination intervention focused on increasing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation and adherence among adolescent girls and young women living in HIV hotspots in...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,365,212 from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) aims to optimize and test a peer-led dynamic choice HIV prevention intervention to increase coverage of biomedical prevention products among women at elevated HIV risk in southwestern Uganda. The project will refine the existing Search Dynamic Choice HIV Prevention (DCP) intervention to further engage women working in venues where transactional sex is...
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 of Nursing Research (NINR), under the Nursing Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.361), awarded a $1,606,442 Project Grant to Duke University to conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial of the "Using PREP, Doing It For Ourselves (UPDOS) Protective Styles" intervention. This e-health intervention aims to improve PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) uptake among Black cisgender women in the southern United States, who have been disproportionately affected by HIV. The intervention involves training beauty salon stylists to become opinion leaders on HIV prevention, and providing a 6-week web-based video series, blogs, and telehealth service access for female customers. The study will assess the effectiveness of this salon-based approach in increasing PrEP awareness, knowledge, trust, and uptake, as well as examine implementation determinants, over a 52-week period. This research, awarded on August 9, 2024, seeks to address critical gaps in equitable PrEP access and utilization among this underserved population.