The purpose of this NIH Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (K01) is to provide salary and research support to investigators who are within ten years of completing their terminal professional degree or residency training. Research and mentorship must be in the field of HIV/AIDS translational studies, using nonhuman primates (NHPs) as preclinical models.
The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support preclinical HIV/AIDS research using NHP models performed by Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who are within 10 years of their terminal degree or completion of their residency training but who have at least two years of postdoctoral experience.
This information sheet walks through some of the basic elements of the Medicare program and provides information to support RWHAP Part B/ADAP staff in adapting program activities to better coordinate with Medicare coverage, including providing premium and cost-sharing assistance for clients.
The Ready, Set, PrEP website provides free PrEP HIV-prevention medications to thousands of people living in the United States, including tribal lands and territories that qualify.
This video discusses how any new prisoner to the country’s 17 penitentiaries sees a psychiatrist, a doctor and if needed is offered to join a treatment programme. Comprehensive harm reduction services not only include drug dependence treatment but also needle syringe exchange and HIV testing and treatment. HIV prevalence is 11% among people who inject drugs in Moldova vs 0.36% among the general population. They are one of the most affected groups in the country. UNAIDS, UNODC and WHO have been long-time supporters of expanding these services to all prisons.
This factsheet discusses how it is estimated that on any given day, there are at around 11 million people in prison. Prisons and other closed settings have a high prevalence of HIV, hepatitis B and C and tuberculosis (TB) infections.
This video discusses how Daouda Diouf comes daily to the Fann Hospital compound daily in Dakar, Senegal. He is one of 250 people enrolled in CEPIAD’s opioid substitution therapy programme (OST). OST is a globally recognized intervention to reduce injecting behaviors that put people who inject drugs at risk of contracting HIV and other blood-borne diseases, such as viral hepatitis.
Anti-Criminalization for Public Health Strategies highlights strategies that health departments and other public health agencies serving people who use drugs, engage in sex work, or who otherwise face increased health risks by being marginalized and criminalized are utilizing to push back on criminalization and its impacts.
Abolition vs. Reform explores the differences between abolition-focused and reform-focused anti-criminalization work in health departments and other public health agencies serving people who use drugs, engage in sex work, or who otherwise face increased health risks due to marginalization.
Criminalization as a Determinant of Public Health provides an overview of criminalization, impacts on public health, and the importance of public health practitioners to learn more about criminalization.
