Funding Priorities:
Research Priorities:
Domestic:
- Reducing racial/ethnic disparities in HIV testing, access, and utilization of treatment and services
- Seek, test, treat, and retain—expanding HIV testing, linkage, and retention in care for hard-to-reach populations
- Improving effectiveness of HIV therapy for substance abusers
- Drug treatment as HIV prevention
- Understanding transmission of HIV among drug users (both injection and non-injection) and their networks
- Interventions for drug users involved in the criminal justice system
- Research on substance abuse, risky decision-making, and impulsivity and HIV transmission among adolescents and adults
- Strategies to coordinate and improve treatment and services for HIV, drug abuse, and co-occurring conditions (e.g., HCV)
- Enhancing adherence to treatment for HIV and comorbid conditions
- Drug abuse, HIV, and the brain
- Genetics, epigenetics, proteomics, and systems biology studies in drug abusers and/or animal models of HIV
- Research on structural interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission and/or to enhance access/utilization of treatment and services
- Training of new AIDS researchers
International:
- Develop prevention strategies addressing non-injection drug use such as stimulants (e.g. methamphetamine, cocaine, crack) in vulnerable populations (e.g., MSM, young women) where prevalence is high (e.g., Latin America, Asia, Africa)
- Develop prevention strategies addressing HIV/injection drug use epidemics in different geographic areas (Russia, China, SE Asia, India, Eastern/Central Europe)
- Develop regional research networks
- Develop new methods for gathering HIV epidemiological data and tracking HIV diffusion
- Assess role of immigration and migration on HIV transmission
- Drug treatment as HIV prevention, including development of long-acting, sustainable therapies
- Assessment of HIV/AIDS treatment as HIV prevention
- Implementation science research to guide scale-up of cost-effective interventions
- HIV and co-infections (e.g., HCV, TB)
- Support training new AIDS researchers
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