This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), provides $146,550 to the University of Illinois to conduct a mixed-methods research study investigating social and behavioral drivers of HIV risk among South African adolescent girls and young women (SA-AGYW). The key objectives are to: 1) Analyze baseline data from a large HIV prevention intervention to...
This $756,077 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The grant supports a 5-year research study to investigate the long-term immunologic, cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurocognitive outcomes in children and adolescents with perinatal HIV infection who have achieved viral suppression on long-term antiretroviral therapy. The research will assess...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop ultra-long-acting antiretroviral drug formulations for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in pediatric populations. The $2,207,322 award, effective January 17, 2025 through December 31, 2026, supports an innovative approach to transform established oral pediatric therapies, such as...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will provide $539,000.00 to the Regents of the University of Minnesota to conduct research focused on improving the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. The research will evaluate the population-level effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a comprehensive...
This federal Project Grant award of $259,818, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA Program 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research, supports research to characterize adherence barriers and estimate per-protocol effects for pediatric dolutegravir use. The key objectives are to (1) characterize the barriers to pediatric dolutegravir combination therapy adherence, and (2) estimate per-protocol effects of treatment...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $332,000 to the University of Southern California (USC) to study the long-term impacts of an early childhood development intervention delivered in rural Kenya. The study aims to follow up on a previous 8-month parenting intervention and a complementary 2-year "booster" program delivered by...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), aims to adapt and evaluate the effectiveness of the Comprehensive Adherence Resource and Empowerment Support (CARES) intervention to increase pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) continuation and adherence among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The total funding amount is $710,187, with an award date of September 11, 2024 and an...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $2,274,635.00, was provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Cooperative Agreements to Promote Adolescent Health through School-Based HIV/STD Prevention and School-Based Surveillance program (CFDA 93.079). The award was granted to ICF Macro Inc., a subsidiary of ICF International, Inc., to research and evaluate strategies aligned with the CDC's "What Works in Schools" approach. The...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) provides $533,750.00 to the University of Florida to study the role of macrophages in the increased HIV risk associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV). The research aims to determine how a non-optimal vaginal microbiome affects the activation and "training" of macrophages towards an HIV-permissive phenotype. This will be...
This $749,228 Project Grant award from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (CFDA 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research) supports collaborative research to investigate the linkages between HIV/STI prevention and syndemic behaviors in high-risk youth. The principal investigators will harmonize data from 6 prior youth HIV/STI and syndemic prevention intervention studies to use advanced machine learning methods to examine the role of youth-provider relationships in intervention outcomes....