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Demonstration Projects to Research and Evaluate Strategies Aligned with CDC’s What Works in Schools Approach

This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) supports research to implement and evaluate strategies aligned with CDC’s What Works in Schools (WWIS) approach for successful implementation in local education agencies and schools serving rural or American Indian and/or Alaska Native (AI/AN) adolescents to address students’ health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes, particularly those related to sexual and reproductive health and mental and behavioral health, as well as suicidality, substance use, and experiences of violence.

PEPFAR Zambia 2025 Small Grants NOFO

The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce a new round of funding for the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Zambia Small Grants Program.

Background: The PEPFAR Small Grants Program is highly open competition funding which supports projects in three thematic areas: HIV prevention, care for children and Adolescents and Young People (AYP), and projects that promote key and priority population education, treatment, and adherence in Zambia’s HIV response.

Sexual Orientation

This webpage discusses how sexual orientation describes who someone is attracted to. One may already know what their sexual orientation is, or they may be figuring it out — both are totally normal.

Trans-Affirming Schools Project Resource Guide

This resource guide serves as a working document to answer some preliminary questions about gender identity and sexual orientation through a racial justice lens, but it will not answer every question, solve every problem, or respond to every need. This guide can serve as a foundational starting point that quickly connects to other community vetted information and support.

Understanding Gay & Lesbian Identities

Gay and lesbian people have the capacity to form attraction and/or relationships with a person of the same gender. 

Streamlining mental health interventions for youth living with HIV in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)

This initiative would solicit research to target gaps in our knowledge about how best to address the mental health needs of YLWH in low- and middle-income countries in ways that are easy to scale up. There are two main goals of the initiative. The first is to increase the number of mental health interventions that are tailored to the unique needs of adolescents living with HIV, both in terms of their developmental needs as well as the issues they have to attend to as a result of living with a chronic, stigmatized disease.

Resources on Minor Consent for STI Services

This resource is geared towards local, state, and national organizations and agencies to strengthen their support for minor consent and includes talking points demonstrating the need for and benefit of the ability for minors to consent for STI testing.