#federal grants

An $11.6 million grant will help researchers map the effects of cannabis—marijuana and related products—on the brains of people with HIV.

Jeffrey Parsons-Hietikko, a former Hunter College professor and leader of CHEST HIV research, must pay back $375,000.

HIV experts worry that the move is political—some federal grants go to Planned Parenthood—and that other states may turn down funding.

HIV, hepatitis and LGBTQ advocates lead the charge. Plus, a study suggests that long-acting injectable PrEP isn’t cost effective.

The HIV program focuses on Black college students in the South. The Black AIDS Institute will partner with Cardea and the Legacy Project.

Nearly half of people living with HIV in the United States receive support from the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.

A $6.6 million grant aims to integrate services for HIV, hepatitis B and C and substance misuse into primary care clinics across the state.

With a $2.4 million grant, researchers will develop a tool to calculate an HIV-positive person’s probability of a fracture.

Black women are disproportionately impacted by HIV, but do they receive their fair share of funding?

A $7 million grant goes to new research seeking insights to neurological and cognitive problems.

It’s part of a $234 million federal initiative to improve COVID-19 testing among vulnerable populations.

“People living with HIV shoulder an enormous burden of cancer,” said lead researcher Joseph Sparano, MD.

A federal grant for a Latino adolescent center in the South Bronx will help evaluate a new peer-based approach.

HOPWA awarded the funding to these 31 grantees.

This strategy entails genetically modifying a person’s stem cells to give rise to T cells that target and destroy cells infected with HIV.

Funding will support the DC Cohort, the “largest citywide study of people living with HIV in the United States.”