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ARCHIVE: Awards for NIH/PEPFAR Collaboration for Advancing Implementation Science in Prevention of Maternal-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH), in collaboration with the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator (OGAC), is supporting implementation science projects that will inform the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) as it develops more efficient and cost-effective methods to deliver proven interventions for prevention of maternal-child HIV transmission (PMTCT).

Access full details on the grants, awarded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in response to the funding opportunity announcement NIH/PEPFAR Collaboration for Advancing Implementation Science in Prevention of Maternal-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) (R01) (RFA-HD-12-210) released January 28, 2012. released January 28, 2012.

Current Grants

• Mother and Infant Retention for Health
  Columbia University Health Sciences
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Elaine Abrams

• Strategies to Optimize ART Services for Maternal and Child Health: The MCH-ART Study
  Columbia University Health Sciences
  Principal Investigators: Dr. Landon Myer / Dr. Elaine Abrams

• Effect of Feeding Buddies on Adherence to WHO PMTCT Guidelines in South Africa
  Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Seattle, Washington
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Kiersten-Ann Israel-Ballard

• Validation of a Community Survey Methodology for Measuring PMTCT Impact
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Benjamin Chi

• Closing the Gaps in PMTCT Program Coverage, Early Infant Diagnosis and Treatment
  University of Cape Town, South Africa
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Mary-Ann Davies

• Comparative Effectiveness of Congregation and Clinic Based Approaches to PMTCT
  University of Nevada, Reno
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Echezona Edozie Ezeanolue

• Conditional Cash Transfers to Increase Uptake of and Retention of PMTCT Services
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Marcel Yotebieng

• Point-of-care Virologic Testing to Improve Outcomes of HIV-Infected Children
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Jeffrey Samuel Allen Stringer

• HIV Testing and Educating Male Partners to Improve Maternal and Infant Outcomes
  University of Washington
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Carey Farquhar

• Early ART Initiation among HIV-Positive Pregnant Women in Central Mozambique
  University of Washington
  Principal Investigators: Dr. James Pfeiffer / Dr. Rachel Chapman

• Systems Analysis and Improvement to Optimize PMTCT: A Cluster Randomized Trial
  University of Washington
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Kenneth Sherr

• Optimizing Integrated PMTCT Services in Rural North-Central Nigeria
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Muktar Hassan Aliyu
  

Updated July 16, 2016