Project Grant R34MH130262

Award Date 9/11/24
Completion Date 8/31/27
Dollars Obligated $678K
Funding Federal Agency
Office of the Director
Federal Grant Program
93.310
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) received a $677,589 Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) to adapt and pilot a novel HIV prevention program called "Fit for PrEP (F4P)" that aims to link incarcerated women to post-release pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) services. The F4P program will leverage an existing "Formerly Incarcerated Transitions" (FIT) program infrastructure to provide PrEP education, social support, and linkage to healthcare for high-risk African American women recently released from incarceration. UNC-CH will refine the F4P intervention through stakeholder feedback and then conduct a pilot randomized trial to assess the program's acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary impact on PrEP initiation. North Carolina A&T State University will lead the qualitative research design and implementation as a sub-grantee. This project seeks to address barriers to PrEP access and usage among a socially and economically marginalized population to ultimately reduce HIV disparities.

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