[hivaids-twg] Funding opportunity announcement (FOA)

[HIV-TWG Moderator]

Funding opportunity announcement (FOA)

HIV Treatment Adherence Research (R01)

HHS/ Department of Health and Human Services
National Institutes of Health

PA NUMBER: PA-01-073 (The R01 portion has been reissued
as PA-07-338, the R03 as PA-07-339, the R21 as PA-07-340 and R34 as
PAR-07-341)

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) calls for research to advance
the scientific understanding of HIV treatment adherence and to enhance and
expand available intervention strategies to promote, improve, and sustain
adherence.

The overarching emphasis is on the development of innovative behavioral and
structural adherence interventions that could be rapidly translated into
clinical practice, community venues, and public health policy within
domestic and international settings.

Any descriptive studies should therefore be undertaken with the aim of
informing the mechanisms of adherence interventions.

Interventions may target patient adherence to antiretroviral medications or
other aspects of HIV treatment that can be shown to affect patient outcomes
and public health (e.g., linkage to primary care, medical appointment
attendance, and service utilization).

Investigators are encouraged to consider incorporation of clinical outcomes
(e.g., viral load, CD4 T-cell count, drug resistance) into intervention
trials when feasible and scientifically appropriate.

Studies are also needed that will advance knowledge of effective approaches
for promoting the dissemination, adoption, and sound implementation of
tested adherence interventions. A well-articulated and empirically based
conceptual framework is essential for all applications solicited under this
announcement. Approaches based on basic behavioral and social scientific
principles such as cognition, emotion, decision-making, motivation, social
interaction, structural factors, and cultural context are invited.

Proposals for interdisciplinary and community-collaborative research
addressing HIV treatment adherence are particularly encouraged.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-338.html
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