Project Grant SMI60018GR0011

The federal Project Grant award ID K01MH138243, awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), will fund a research project titled "REDUCING MOBILITY-ASSOCIATED INTERRUPTION IN ART AMONG MEN IN MALAWI (REMIT)." The $183,179 award will support the refinement and piloting of an intervention to improve antiretroviral treatment (ART) outcomes among mobile men living with HIV in Malawi. The key products and services...

This federal Project Grant award of $547,321 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under CFDA 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants program, aims to develop and pilot test an intervention called "Kayungirizi" to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) initiation and persistence among male clients of female sex workers (FSW) in Kampala, Uganda. The key components of the intervention involve: 1) Secondary distribution of HIV self-testing (HIVST) kits by FSW to their male...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $205,235 to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) to conduct a combined microeconomic strengthening and stigma reduction intervention for young people with HIV in Zambia. The key products/services being delivered through this funding include: An 8-week program with two experimental components: (i) a stigma reduction support group providing...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) provides $707,796 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to extend and evaluate the implementation and sustainability of the "Malkia Klabu" (MK) intervention. The MK program aims to create youth-friendly drug shops where adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa can access HIV prevention...

The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $110,000 project grant to Treatment Advocacy And Litera CY Campaign to implement the COMMUNITY LED MONITORING TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF HIV CARE IN ZAMBIA THROUGH CLIENT FEEDBACK project from March 1, 2022 to December 30, 2022. Under this award, Treatment Advocacy And Litera CY Campaign will work to improve HIV care quality in Zambia by establishing a community-led monitoring program that gathers client feedback. The grant is part of the...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a five-year, $710,187 Project Grant (CFDA 93.242) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to adapt and evaluate the Comprehensive Adherence Resource and Empowerment Support (CARES) intervention for increasing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence and continuation among adolescent girls and young women in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt the CARES intervention to incorporate injectable PrEP and...

The $18,650,000 Cooperative Agreement award, granted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Global AIDS program (CFDA 93.067), will support the "ACCELERATING MALAWI'S PEPFAR LABORATORY LOGISTICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE FOR QUALITY 2.0 (AMPLIFY 2.0)" project. This multi-year, 5-year award, effective September 30, 2024, aims to accelerate Malawi's efforts to strengthen its laboratory logistics and infrastructure under the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) under CFDA 93.361 Nursing Research, is funding the "Implementation of an HIV Status-Neutral Nurse-Led Intervention to Increase Equity in Clinical Outcomes for Male HIV Self-Testers in Tanzania." The $783,348 grant, awarded on June 25, 2024, supports a research project to tailor a community-based HIV testing and care linkage intervention for heterosexual men in Tanzania, test the...

The Luapula Foundation received a $124,016.05 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs to implement the "COMMUNITY LED MONITORING TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF HIV CARE IN ZAMBIA THROUGH CLIENT FEEDBACK" program. The grant period runs from April 1, 2021 through January 31, 2022. The program will utilize community-led monitoring to improve the quality of HIV care in Zambia through client feedback. Specifically, the Luapula Foundation will work directly...

The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $119,943 cooperative agreement to Family Development Initiatives LIMITED of Zambia to support a Community Led Monitoring Initiative to Improve Quality of HIV Care Services in Eastern Province from January 19, 2023 through November 30, 2023. The initiative will support community-based monitoring of HIV care services delivered through the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program in Eastern Province, Zambia....