National Minority AIDS Council Building Healthier Communities

Below are a number of HIV/AIDS-related grant opportunities with upcoming deadlines.

For helpful information about how to prepare a successful grant proposal, click here for NMAC's grant writing tutorial located in CBO Tools or download the Grant Writing Manual from NMAC's Organizational Effectiveness Series in English or Spanish. More grant opportunities can be found at www.grants.gov.

Novel HIV Therapies: Integrated Preclinical/Clinical Program (IPCP)(U19) Grant

The goal of this RFA is to support research collaborations between NIAID, academia, and the private sector for the purpose of moving new therapeutic concepts from the laboratory to the clinic for initial testing. The NIAID seeks applications from consortia of institutions/organizations in which the primary applicant may be from academia or the private sector and that include an Administrative Core and a minimum of 3 interrelated research projects, of which at least one must be contributed by the private sector and one, by academia.

 

Fore more information, click here. Applications are due July 11, 2008.

 

 

Viral Hepatitis: Cooperative Agreement for Networking, Education, and Training
Grant

The purpose of the program is to announce the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2008 funds for a cooperative agreement program for viral hepatitis prevention control networking, education, and training activities that target persons at risk for viral hepatitis. 

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 11, 2008.

 

STD Surveillance Network (SSuN) Grant

The SSuN Project is intended to improve the capacity of national, state, and local STD programs to detect, monitor, and respond rapidly, with flexibility, and with greater effectiveness to established and emerging trends in STDs and related risk behaviors, and evaluate the effectiveness of public health interventions to reduce STD morbidity.The purpose of Part A is to strengthen and expand the existing SSuN platform to establish an integrated network of STD clinics and health departments that serve a diverse population, have a strong clinical as well as analytic capacity, and follow common protocols to implement surveillance activities. The purpose of Part B is to expand the capacity of the SSuN Surveillance Platform to allow the collection of STD biomarkers in a subset of STD clinics.

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due Jul 14, 2008.   

 

 

2008 Prevention for HIV Infected Women Living in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

The Prevention Program for HIV Infected Women Living in Puerto Rico seeks to prevent secondary transmission among women who practice high risk behaviors, to increase access to care for women living with HIV, to increase knowledge of protective behaviors of HIV infected women, and to reduce isolation of women living with HIV infection. The HIV Prevention for Women Living in the U.S. Virgin Islands Program seeks to provide accurate and comprehensive information on HIV/AIDS prevention AND healthy behaviors to maintain both mental and physical good health for women living in the U. S. Virgin Islands. The primary intent is to increase knowledge on preventing HIV among women and to increase understanding of self protective behaviors through a series of facilitated discussions.

 

 For more information, click here. Applications are due July 15, 2008.

 

 

2008 In Community Spirit - Prevention of HIV/AIDS for Native/American Indian and Alaska Native Women Living in Rural and Frontier Indian Country Program

The primary purpose of this OWH HIV/AIDS program is to increase HIV prevention knowledge and reduce the risk of contracting HIV among Native/American Indian and Alaska Native women living in Indian Country by developing and sustaining HIV prevention services to increase awareness of and receptivity to HIV prevention information among AI/AN women and gender specific education and prevention training modules on critical HIV/AIDS primary and secondary prevention/education information; mplementing education and prevention training modules that are culturally and linguistically appropriate, building on strengths of traditions, values, culture, and spirituality of indigenous communities of AI/AN women living in Indian Country.

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 15, 2008.

 

 

Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS
The purpose of this program is to provide states and localities with the resources and incentives to devise long-term comprehensive strategies for meeting the housing needs of low-income persons with HIV/AIDS. Grant recipients will measure client outcomes to assess how housing assistance creates or maintains stable housing, reduces risks of homelessness, and improves access to health care and other needed support.

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 18, 2008.

 

 

Street Outreach Program Grant

The purpose of the SOP is to enable programs to help young people leave the streets.  The goal of the program is to conduct outreach efforts to build relationships between street outreach staff and street youth.  These efforts will provide support services that will assist youth in moving and adjusting to safe and appropriate alternative living arrangements to become independent, self-sufficient, contributing members of society. 

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 18, 2008.

 

 

PHASE II Comprehensive ICOHRTA AIDS/TB (U2R) Grant

Applications from a Research Training Unit, composed of a Phase I International Clinical, Operations and Health Services Research Training Award for AIDS and TB recipient and the U.S. partner institution chosen by the Phase I recipient, must propose, in an integrated manner, a comprehensive training program that will strengthen the capacity in the foreign country to conduct clinical research and implementation science, including operations and health services research focused on HIV infection, TB, and, where relevant, HIV/TB co-infection prevention, care and treatment.

 

For more information, click here. Letters of intent are due July 19, 2008 and July 18, 2009. Applications are due August 18, 2008 and August 18, 2009.

 

 

Promoting Science-Based Approaches to the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy, HIV, and STI: Enhancing Capacity Building Provided by State Education Agencies and Tribal Governments Grant

The goal of this project is to improve the likelihood that schools will use effective evidence-based prevention programs and approaches (including curriculum-based teen pregnancy, HIV, and STI prevention education).  One approach that is encouraged is employment of strategies that promote youth development.  Two key strategies will be undertaken: expanding state-based partnerships and state of the art technical assistance. 

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 21, 2008.

 

 

Promoting Science-Based Approaches to the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy, HIV, and STI: Enhancing the Capacity Building Provided by National Non-Governmental Organizations Grant

The goal of this project is to provide CBA to SEA and TG that work to improve the likelihood that schools will implement effective evidence-based prevention programs, policies, and practices to avoid, prevent, and reduce sexual risk behaviors among students that contribute to teen pregnancy, HIV infection, and STI (including curriculum-based teen pregnancy, HIV, and STI prevention education).  One approach that is encouraged is employment of strategies that promote youth development. 

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 21, 2008.

 

 

2008 HPP HIV Prevention FOA Grant

The primary purpose or intent of this OWH program is to increase HIV prevention knowledge and reduce the risk of contracting HIV among young minority women. The OWH hopes to fulfill this purpose by providing funding to Minority Institutions to develop and implement a HIV/AIDS/STD prevention education program targeting young women on campus.

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 25, 2008.

 

 

Supporting HIV Integration into Primary Care Settings in Indian Country Grant

The purpose of the supplement is to develop the capacity of primary health care settings serving American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) to effectively integrate HIV prevention services. This will be accomplished by providing HIV integration training and technical assistance to organizations implementing HIV integration efforts in Indian Country, including but not limited to other Regional Training Centers; Indian Health Service, tribal health, and urban Indian health programs; other publicly-funded primary health care settings serving AI/AN; and other relevant non-profit institutions and agencies, such as Tribal Epidemiology Centers and Indian health boards.

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 29, 2008.

 

 

Transmission and Pathogenesis of HIV in Women (P01) Grant

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) seeks applications from institutions/organizations that propose to increase understanding of HIV transmission and disease pathogenesis in women. Applicants are encouraged to propose multidisciplinary, interactive and synergistic program projects to address HIV infection in women through basic science and epidemiological investigations of female-specific biologic mechanisms that impact HIV transmission as well as HIV disease acquisition, manifestations and progression.

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due July 30.

Novel Lentiviral Models of HIV Neuropathogenesis Grant

This grant opportunity invites research grant applications aimed at developing and or refinement of animal or ex vivo cell culture model systems for study of the neurologic complications of AIDS, with or without a history of drug or alcohol use. Recent advances in the development of the SIV model system highlight the power of animal model systems for study of the mechanisms underlying the pathology associated with lentiviral infection in the nervous system. These models will be key for developing therapeutic approaches for the treatment of patients suffering from NeuroAIDS and for understanding the basic biology of infection with HIV/AIDS.

 

Click here for more information. Applications will be accepted beginning August 7, 2008. Standard AIDS application submission dates apply, click here.

 

 

Integrating Biobehavioral and Sociocultural Research to Prevent HIV Transmission and Infection (R01 & R21) Grant

This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits applications from organizations to develop theoretically grounded approaches to prevention of HIV infection and transmission that incorporate biobehavioral approaches in studies that are culturally appropriate. Biobehavioral approaches may be biomedical, or they may consist of behavioral interventions using biological markers of efficacy. Sociocultural appropriateness involves, at minimum, application of knowledge of the norms, beliefs and values of potential research subjects in varied contexts, and an appreciation of culture as dynamic. 

 

Click here for more information about R01. Click here for more information about R21. Applications may be submitted to grants.gov starting August 7, 2008. Standard AIDS application due dates apply, see:  http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm#AIDS.

 

Johnson & Johnson and Society for the Arts in Healthcare Grant

Johnson & Johnson, working in partnership with the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, seeks to promote the use of the arts to enhance the healthcare experience for patients, their families, and caregivers.  From 2001 - 2008, we have provided funding to 115 programs in the US and Canada representing leading models and initiatives in high quality healthcare through the use of arts.  Proposals are now being sought from healthcare and/or arts organizations that have established arts in healthcare programs with evidence of initial impact. 

 

Click here for more information and eligibility requirements. Letter of Inquiry Deadline: August 8, 2008.

 

 

Packaging Proven HIV Behavioral Interventions for Use with High Risk Populations of Acquiring HIV

The purpose of the program is to enhance the capacity of local HIV prevention organizations to implement and sustain effective and feasible behavioral interventions by making intervention materials and training more widely available.

 

Click here for more information. Applications are due Aug 15, 2008.

 

 

Agency for Health Care Research and Quality Small Grant Program for Conference Support

AHRQ seeks to support conferences that help to further its mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans.

 

Click here for more information. Applications are due August 20, 2008 and October 20, 2008.

 

 

NCMHD Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training

The National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD) and Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), invite applications for the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) awards.  These awards will support programs that offer international research training opportunities to qualified undergraduate, graduate and health professions students who are from health disparities populations and/or are underrepresented in basic science, biomedical, clinical or behavioral health research career fields. 

 

Click here for more information. Applications are due August 19, 2008.

 

 

CESH Scholars Program

The Center of Excellence for Sexual Health (CESH) Community Leadership in Sexual Health Scholars Program provides support for 10-month resident scholarships at Morehouse School of Medicine. The CESH Scholars Program seeks to promote community leadership in the area of sexual health and to forge links between sexual health and public health service to combat health disparities. In creating community leadership in this area, the CESH Scholars Program will advance the continuing professional development for persons interested in the elimination of disparities in sexual health worldwide and help ensure the effective application of knowledge about human sexuality to the public health sphere, at the local, state, national and international level.

 

Click here for more information. Applications will be available online beginning August 25, 2008.  The application deadline is November 24, 2008.

 

Non-injection Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS

This FOA issued by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), encourages drug abuse research that elucidates the contribution of non-injection drug abuse to the acquisition and/or transmission and/or disease progression of HIV/AIDS.

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due September 7, 2008.

 

Technical Assistance in Support of HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Programs  and Other Infectious Diseases That Impact HIV Infected Patients in Support of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

The purpose of this announcement is to fund organizations that will provide programmatic and technical assistance (TA) to in-country partners. The purpose of this assistance is to build capacity and sustainability within the framework of the participating country in which HHS/CDC has ongoing activities supporting the goals and priorities cited above; and to provide techincal assistance and training to support the United State Government (USG) initiative and the affected country governments in the expansion and strengthening of HIV and AIDS related activities. It is anticipated that at the end of the period of support, sufficient mechanisms and procedures will be in place to ensure continuation of the effort by the partner country.

 

Click here for more information. Applications are due September 9, 2008.

 

 

Cable Positive's Tony Cox Community Fund Offers Funding for AIDS Service Organizations

Grants of up to $7,000 will be awarded to nonprofits partnering with a cable system to produce HIV/AIDS-related programs and public service announcements; special consideration will be given to AIDS service organizations.

Click here for more information. Applications are due September 12, 2008.

 

Dissemination, Implementation, and Operational Research for HIV Prevention Interventions (R01) Grant

This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute Mental Health (NIMH), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) invites research to enhance the science of technology transfer, dissemination, implementation, and operational research for evidence-based HIV-prevention interventions in the United States.

 

Click here for more information. Cycle III Applications are due October 5, 2008.

 

 

NINR AREA for Health Disparities Research at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI's ) (R15)

The purpose of the NINR Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) for Health Disparities Research at Minority Serving Institutions (MSI’s) (R15) is to stimulate health disparities and minority health research at minority-serving schools of nursing and to promote the development of minority nurse scientists as independent investigators. AREA grants are intended to support small-scale health-related research projects proposed by faculty members of eligible, domestic institutions, see: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-06-042.html

 

Click here for more information. Applications may be submitted starting October 25, 2008. Standard AIDS application submission dates apply, please see http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/funding/submissionschedule.htm#AIDS.

Structural Interventions, Alcohol Use, and Risk of HIV/AIDS (R03)

This FOA issued by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institutes of Health, solicits applications from institutions/ organizations that propose to investigate the effectiveness of structural interventions that reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS transmission by changing the environment of alcohol use. Although a variety of structural and environmental interventions have been employed successfully to reduce other drinking-related problems, there has been little research that extends such efforts into the realm of HIV/AIDS risk reduction.

 

For more information, click here. Applications are due January 7, 2009.

 

Public Health Conference Support Program

The Public Health Conference Support Program  provides assistance to organizations generally recognized as demonstrating a need for information to protect the public from health effects of exposure to hazardous substances.

 

Only conferences planned for May 1, 2007 through September 30, 2010 are eligible to apply under this announcement. Applications are due March 8, 2009.

 

AIDS International Training and Research Program (D43)

This FOA invites applications from eligible institutions for innovative, collaborative research training programs that would contribute to the long-term goal of building sustainable research capacity in HIV-related conditions at institutions in low and middle income countries.

The amount and duration of awards will vary, and there are multiple rolling deadlines for applications; please see the grant announcement for details. 

 

HIV Treatment Adherence Research (R01) (R03) (R21) (R34)

This FOA issued by the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and National Institute of Nursing Research invites grant applications from applicant organizations to advance scientific research and intervention regarding HIV treatment adherence. This FOA will utilize the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) award mechanism and runs in parallel with FOAs of similar scientific scope: PA-07-339, which solicits applications under the Small Research Grant (R03) mechanism; PA-07-340, which solicits applications under the Exploratory/Developmental (R21) mechanism; and PAR-07-341, which solicits applications under the Exploratory Grants for Mental Health Interventions and Services (R34) mechanism. 

 

There are multiple rolling deadlines for applications; please see the respective grant announcements for details.

 

Health Research with Diverse Populations

The purpose of this FOA is to invite grant applications for biological, behavioral, social, addictive, and mental health research related to the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and other diverse populations. Proposed research should be appropriate for the missions of one or more of the participating Institutes.

 

There are multiple receipt dates for applications. See Link to Full Announcement for details.