The National Institutes of Health has announced a call for applications for the Multi-Level HIV
Prevention Interventions for Individuals at the Highest Risk of HIV Infection.
The objective of this initiative is to further knowledge about how
to best reduce the number of new HIV infections in the US through interventions
to promote pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), condom use, and HIV testing. This
initiative will support research projects that test the effectiveness of
multi-level interventions to prevent HIV in high-risk health disparity
populations or subgroups in one or more geographic areas with a high rate of
new HIV infections.
Specific Areas
Areas of special interest include, but are not
limited, to the following:
- Testing of interventions in
multiple geographic hotspots.
- Use of cluster randomized
trials or multi-site quasi-experimental studies.
- Interventions that include
clinician- or healthcare setting-level intervention components to enhance
cultural competency, reduce health-care related stigma and discrimination,
and increase clinician comfort and willingness to prescribe PrEP.
- Engagement of community members
of the target high-risk health disparity populations or subgroups as
investigators, advisors, or peer interventionists.
- Collaboration with diverse
local stakeholders in addition to HIV-prevention service providers,
including school systems, school-based student or parent associations, community-based
organizations, consumer organizations, and faith-based organizations, to
enhance intervention relevance, feasibility, and sustainability.
- Projects that examine
cost-effectiveness of intervention implementation and delivery.
Funding Information
Application budgets are
limited to $500,000 direct costs annually, not including consortia F&A.
Eligibility Criteria
- Higher Education Institutions
- Public/State Controlled
Institutions of Higher Education
- Private Institutions of Higher
Education
- The following types of Higher
Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as
Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
- Hispanic-serving Institutions
- Historically Black Colleges
and Universities (HBCUs)
- Tribally Controlled Colleges
and Universities (TCCUs)
- Alaska Native and Native
Hawaiian Serving Institutions
- Asian American Native American
Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
- Nonprofits Other Than
Institutions of Higher Education
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS
Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3)
IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
- For-Profit Organizations
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations
(Other than Small Businesses)
- Local Governments
- State Governments
- County Governments
- City or Township Governments
- Special District Governments
- Indian/Native American Tribal
Governments (Federally Recognized)
- Indian/Native American Tribal
Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
- Federal Governments
- U.S. Territory or Possession
- Other
- Independent School Districts
- Public Housing
Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
- Native American Tribal
Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Faith-based or Community-based
Organizations
- Regional Organizations
Post Date - 06-Nov-2020