USAID-NIH Grants for HIV-infected Youth in low, middle and high income countries

Deadline: 14 January 2016

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development is calling applicants for grants supporting HIV-Infected youth with a motive to develop an evidence base to support low, middle and high income countries.

Prenatally HIV-infected youth in the United States are now routinely surviving into late adolescence and young adulthood with the expectation of several more decades of survival. With increasing access to antiretroviral globally this same degree of survival is already being seen in low and middle income countries most impacted by the HIV epidemic.

This effort described in this funding opportunity is limited to HIV-infected youth but the research supported should provide opportunities to address the broader issue of chronic illness in adolescence, especially in low and middle income countries, where adolescent health services are quite limited.

Focus Areas

Questions to be addressed by this initiative include but are not limited to the following:

Studies to determine the age, developmental parameters, other factors including environmental setting and cost effectiveness at which transition plans should begin
Studies that examine the developmental, clinical, and other factors that predict a successful transition or a poor transition
Evaluation of the clinical, behavioral, adherence, and other outcomes of transition of programs that follow written policies
Studies to determine the basic needs and delivery of services of transition in resource limited settings
Studies to determine for effective transition, the training and other needs of staff and patient
Studies to determine if transition of youth with medical and/or mental health co-morbidities should be managed differently
Studies that address different strategies for transition in settings where youth receive separate general pediatric and HIV subspecialty care, ex. should transition to adult based care happen at the same time for both general medicine and adult HIV care?
Studies that include a discussion of clinical considerations (disease stage, opportunistic infections, treatment experience, developmental challenges, psychosocial circumstances, etc.) and how these may differ between a youth’s mode of HIV acquisition (perinatal vs behavioral) and the role these factors play in determining favorable transition outcomes?

Funds and Awards

NICHD will fund $1,500,000 in FY 2016 to fund 3-4 awards.
Size of the award is limited to $225,000 direct cost per year.

Project Duration

The maximum project period is 5 years.

Eligibility Criteria

The applicants eligible for the program are:

Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education and Private Institutions of Higher Education.
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education) and without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education).
For-Profit Organizations that include
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
Stated Governments, Country Governments, City or Township Governments, Special District Governments, Indian/Native American Tribal Governments.
Foreign Institutions
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.
- Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are eligible to apply.
- Foreign components, as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, are allowed.
Any individual(s) with the skills, knowledge, and resources necessary to carry out the proposed research as the Program Director(s)/Principal Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to develop an application for support. Individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups as well as individuals with disabilities are always encouraged to apply for NIH support.
Applicants must have an active DUNS number and SAM registration in order to complete the Grants.gov registration.