Project Grant SSF75022GR0036

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 $2,155,836 to conduct a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of two social network strategies to increase equitable reach of HIV self-testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) information. The study, titled "TEST-TO-PREP: A RANDOMIZED HYBRID IMPLEMENTATION/EFFICACY TRIAL OF A SOCIAL NETWORK...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $431,712, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855), aims to improve HIV testing among children under five in rural Uganda. The primary goal is to engage with traditional healers to facilitate HIV counseling and testing via oral swab antigen tests for this vulnerable pediatric population. The award supports two key activities: 1) determining barriers and...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the 93.242 Mental Health Research Grants program, will provide $898,186 to Spotted TECH LLC to develop an innovative "CD4-LINK" home-based, mail-in CD4 count test for people living with HIV (PLWH). The overarching goal is to improve HIV monitoring, healthcare management, and facilitate rapid linkage-to-care in underserved areas by reducing the need for clinic visits. The primary objective is to...

This $582,959 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) aims to integrate a "Universal Test-and-Connect" (UTC) strategy for HIV prevention and treatment services into two high-volume emergency department (ED) settings in Cape Town, South Africa. The 3-year project, running from September 2024 to September 2027, has three key objectives: Integrate HIV assessment into...

This federal Project Grant award of $845,304 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund formative work to develop an intervention supporting combined HIV and syphilis self-testing and linkage to prevention and treatment services for transgender women in South Africa. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year award include: Conducting in-depth interviews with 15 transgender women and 15...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) awarded a Project Grant (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) totaling $707,796 to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to build on the success of the "Malkia Klabu" (MK) loyalty program and evaluate strategies for scaling the program's HIV prevention services for adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: 1)...

This $132,854 Project Grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) is for adapting and evaluating an mHealth intervention to improve HIV testing and PrEP uptake among young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in Vietnam. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: 1) Adapting the evidence-based "HealthMindr" mobile app to the Vietnamese context through focus...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under CFDA Program 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants provides $223,550 to conduct research on a point-of-care sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing strategy to improve HIV prevention service delivery in adolescents. The research aims to assess the clinical and implementation outcomes of using rapid gonorrhea and chlamydia point-of-care testing to increase HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis...

This $1,415,374 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) supports research to evaluate the integration of HIV prevention, including HIV self-testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), into household-based tuberculosis (TB) contact investigation in Uganda. The key objectives are to: 1) assess the implementation and effectiveness of home-based HIV self-testing and PrEP initiation versus standard clinic referral for PrEP during...

This Project Grant award of $1,330,652 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) will fund a hybrid type-1 effectiveness-implementation trial of the "Motivation Matters!" (MM!) mHealth intervention. The goal is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of MM!, a theory-based mHealth intervention, in supporting early antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among HIV-positive women who engage in sex work in Africa. The...