Prevention and Treatment Research to Address HIV/AIDS Disparities in Women in the US (R01-Accepting applications that either propose or do not propose clinical trial(s)) | RFA MD 18 004

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding opportunity RFA-MD-18-004 is an R01 research grant focused on reducing HIV/AIDS disparities affecting women in the United States. The core goal is to support research that helps explain why HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment outcomes differ by race/ethnicity, geography, and socioeconomic status among US women, and to test practical ways to close those gaps. The announcement is broadly aimed at health services research, intervention research, and implementation research, meaning it is interested not only in whether an approach works, but also how to deliver effective approaches in real-world settings and systems of care.

Projects under this opportunity can address any point along the HIV continuum relevant to women, including prevention (such as uptake and adherence to preventive strategies, engagement with prevention services, or barriers to risk-reduction resources), screening and diagnosis (such as access to testing, timeliness of diagnosis, linkage to care after diagnosis, and factors that influence missed opportunities for detection), and treatment (including retention in care, antiretroviral therapy initiation and adherence, viral suppression, and broader care delivery issues). The emphasis on disparities indicates that proposals should center the unequal burdens and outcomes experienced by groups of women who are historically underserved or disproportionately affected, and should be designed to produce knowledge that can realistically inform programs, policies, clinical workflows, or community-based service delivery.

The opportunity allows a range of study designs and data sources. Applicants may propose primary data collection, which could include recruiting participants, collecting new clinical or behavioral data, or implementing and evaluating interventions in clinics or community settings. Applicants may also use secondary analyses of existing datasets, which could involve analyzing surveillance data, electronic health records, claims data, cohort studies, or other established data resources to identify drivers of disparities or to evaluate real-world service patterns and outcomes. The R01 mechanism typically supports substantial, multi-year research projects, and this specific announcement also notes that applications may either include clinical trial(s) or not, meaning both interventional studies and non-trial research are within scope as long as they are responsive to the disparity-reduction focus.

Eligibility is intentionally broad and includes many types of organizations that might be positioned to conduct or partner on disparity-focused HIV research involving women. Eligible applicants include state, county, city/township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled colleges and universities; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; tribal organizations that are not federally recognized; nonprofits with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education in those categories); for-profit organizations (other than small businesses); small businesses; and other entities. The announcement also highlights additional eligible applicant types such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving Institutions, Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), as well as faith-based or community-based organizations, regional organizations, eligible federal agencies, and US territories or possessions. This wide net reflects the reality that effective HIV disparity work often depends on partnerships across academic, clinical, public health, and community systems.

At the same time, there are important limits on foreign participation. Non-domestic (non-US) entities and non-domestic components of US organizations are not eligible to apply as the applicant organization. However, foreign components are allowed as defined by the NIH Grants Policy Statement, meaning a US-based applicant may include certain international elements in the project when justified and compliant with NIH policy, but the lead applicant organization must be domestic.

Key administrative details included in the source information are that this is a discretionary grant opportunity in the health category under CFDA 93.307, administered by NIH, with an original closing date of April 30, 2018. The listed award ceiling is $350,000. The opportunity was created on December 7, 2017.

• The National Institutes of Health in the health sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Prevention and Treatment Research to Address HIV/AIDS Disparities in Women in the US (R01-Accepting applications that either propose or do not propose clinical trial(s))" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 93.307.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-12-07.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2018-04-30. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $350,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, For-profit organizations other than small businesses, Small businesses, Others.

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