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$3M awarded to study HIV/AIDS stigma

September / October 2020 | Volume 19, Number 5

Eight new awards were funded through Fogarty’s Reducing Stigma to Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) program, totaling approximately $3 million in support over the next two years. The awards are intended to spur development of innovative interventions to reduce stigma in LMICs, including among particularly marginalized or vulnerable communities, such as adolescent girls, people who inject drugs, and caregivers and children of people living with HIV.

In addition to Fogarty, the awards received funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

2020 Reducing Stigma to Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care in LMICs Awards

• Public Health Institute
  Reducing stigma and HIV risk behaviors among kathoey in Bangkok, Thailand
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Tooru Nemoto
• Research Triangle Institute
  Improving HIV treatment outcomes for people who use drugs: Adapting and piloting a drug-use use stigma-reduction intervention in HIV care and treatment clinics in Tanzania
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Laura Nyblade
• Research Triangle Institute
  Understanding and measuring the impact of stigma on PrEP adherence among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya: identifying targets for future interventions
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Sarah Tyler Roberts
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
  Adapting the finding respect and ending stigma around HIV (FRESH) intervention for the Dominican Republic
  Principal Investigators: Drs. Henna Budhwani, Robert Paulino-Ramirez and Janet M Turan
• University of California, San Diego
  Identifying intersectional stigma intervention targets for people who inject drugs in a high-risk international setting
  Principal Investigator: Dr. Laramie Rae Smith
• University of Iowa
  Building capacity to reduce HIV-related stigma among adolescents in Western Kenya
  Principal Investigators: Drs. William Thomas Story and Nema Aluku
• University of Maryland, College Park
  Evaluating the role of peers to reduce substance use stigma and improve HIV care outcomes in South Africa
  Principal Investigators: Drs. Jessica F. Magidson and Bronwyn Myers
• Yale University
  Developing efficient intervention technologies to reduce stigma related stress, mental health problems, and HIV risk among young Chinese MSM
  Principal Investigators: Drs. John Edward Pachankis and Xianhong Li

More Information

• Program: Reducing Stigma to Improve HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment and Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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Related Fogarty Programs

• Stigma HIV/AIDS

Related Global Health Research Topics

• HIV / AIDS