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STDs are Rising Among Teens. Can Video Games Help?
 For more than a decade, Dr. Lynn Fiellin, a professor of medicine at Yale University, has been at the forefront of the push to bring gaming into sex education. Her lab, Play2PREVENT, has developed an interactive, story-driven role-playing sex ed video game whereby the user navigates their avatar through a gauntlet of social situations, like giving advice to a classmate or talking about condom use.
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Connecticut LGBTQ+ Community Needs Assessment Survey
 Are you a member of Connecticut's LGBTQ+ community? Join the Proud to Count movement by filling out Connecticut's LGBTQ+ Community Survey. The Survey aims to 1) enhance our understanding of the number of people that identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community in our State and 2) identify the needs of the LGBTQ+ Community in Connecticut.
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Dining Out for Life - Take Out Thursdays
 Order takeout every Thursday in April from your favorite Dining Out for Life restaurants and make a contribution to APNH: A Place to Nourish your Health in support of persons living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
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Recording Available: Community in a Time of Crisis Virtual Opening
 If you missed the virtual opening of the latest Yale School of Medicine Program for Art in Public Spaces exhibition, you can view it online. The March 4 virtual opening of Community in a Time of Crisis: Yale, New Haven, and HIV/AIDS, 1981-1996 includes a virtual tour of the exhibition.
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- Yale School of Public Health/Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Virtual Seminar: Measuring the Impact of Environmental Risk Factors on Human Health - Findings from the Global Burden of Disease study (GBD)
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Speaker: Katrin Burkart, PhD, University of Washington
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- Emerging science in US Adolescent HIV: Antibodies in acute HIV, long-acting injectables for prevention, study recruitment and retention
Date: Wednesday, April 7, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
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- Yale Addiction Medicine Rounds: "Closing the Gap - Empowering Generalists to Care for People Who Use Substances"
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Speaker: Kenneth Morford, MD, FASAM, Yale School of Medicine
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- YSPH Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Seminar Series: "Addressing the Overdose Crisis Through Safe Supply"
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Speaker: Ryan McNeil, PhD, Yale School of Medicine
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- Yale Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses (PRFDHR) Presents: "Growing up Under Forced Displacement: Evidence from Bangladesh and Jordan"
Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2:30 pm-3:45 pm
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- CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "Transparency in Qualitative Research: Data Sharing and Beyond"
Date: Friday, April 16, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Presenter: Sebastian Karcher, Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University
Contact: Lauretta Grau (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
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- Ending the HIV Epidemic: Sexual Health in Primary Health Care Settings
Date: Thursday, April 22, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Registration Required
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- Bristol Mayor's Task Force on HIV/AIDS & HCV Annual HIV Education Forum: Getting to Zero
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 8:30 am-12:00 pm
Presenters include Daniel Davidson, Assistant Director of CIRA's Community Research and Implementation Core
Registration Required
- Increasing Diversity in Clinical Trials
Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2:00 pm
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- Global Implementation Conference 2021
Date: May 3-6, 2021
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- 2021 STAT Health Tech Summit
Date: May 11-12, 2021
Registration Required
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- National LGBTQ Health Conference
Date: May 20-21, 2021
Registration Required
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Download a PDF compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.
- Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity (U01 Clinical Trial Allowed)
Letter of Intent Due Date(s): April 28, 2021
Application Due Date: May 28, 2021
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- Transformative Research to Address Health Disparities and Advance Health Equity at Minority Serving Institutions (U01 Clinical Trial Allowed)
Letter of Intent Due Date(s): April 28, 2021
AIDS Application Due Date: May 28, 2021
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- The Williams Institute's LGBTI Global Small Grants Program
Eligibility: Applicants must reside or work in the following regions: Latin America, Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East/North Africa, Asia
Application Due Date: April 30, 2021
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- NOSI: Administrative Supplements to FIC Awards for COVID-19-related Research in Low- or Middle-Income Countries
Application Due Date: May 14, 2021
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- NOSI: Administrative Supplements for COVID-19-Impacted FIC Research Training and Education Awards
Application Due Date: May 14, 2021
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- NOSI: Identification of Biomarkers of HIV Pathogenesis and Substance Use Disorder Comorbidity
First Available Due Date: June 5, 2021
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- Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Structural Racism and Discrimination on Minority Health and Health Disparities (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Letter of Intent Due Date: July 20, 2021
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- Respond: Epidemiology to End the HIV Epidemic (RESPOND: EEE) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Due Date: July 30, 2021
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- Prevention Strategies to End the HIV Epidemic (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Due Date: July 30, 2021
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- Multidisciplinary Treatment Approaches to End the HIV Epidemic (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Application Due Date: August 04, 2021
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- Understanding Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Intact and Defective HIV RNA (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Date: August 04, 2021
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- Limited Competition Coordinating Center for the HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Cohorts Program (U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
AIDS Application Due Date: August 9, 2021
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- Harm Reduction, By Mail: the Next Step in Promoting the Health of People Who Use Drugs
Benjamin T Hayes, Jamie Favaro, Corey S Davis, Gregg S Gonsalves, Leo Beletsky, David Vlahov, Robert Heimer, Aaron D Fox
Journal of Urban Health. 2021 Mar 12;1-6. doi: 10.1007/s11524-021-00534-1. Online ahead of print.
- Readiness to provide medications for opioid, alcohol and tobacco use disorder in HIV clinics: A multi-site mixed-methods formative evaluation
E Jennifer Edelman, Geliang Gan, James Dziura, Denise Esserman, Kenneth L Morford, Elizabeth Porter, Philip A Chan, Deborah H Cornman, Benjamin J Oldfield, Jessica Yager, Srinivas B Muvvala, David A Fiellin
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2021 Feb 26. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002666. Online ahead of print.
- Electronic Dissemination of a Web-Based Video Promotes PrEP Contemplation and Conversation Among US Women Engaged in Care at Planned Parenthood
Sarah K Calabrese, Susan B Lane, Abigail Caldwell, Clair Kaplan, John F Dovidio, Rachel W Galvao, Damon F Ogburn, Cara B Safon, Mehrit Tekeste, Tamara Taggart, Djordje Modrakovic, Brittany C Wilbourn, Oni Blackstock, Trace S Kershaw
AIDS and Behavior. 2021 Mar 11;1-18. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03210-2. Online ahead of print.
- UNAIDS Global AIDS Strategy 2021–2026, End Inequalities, End AIDS
The new global AIDS strategy paves the way to end AIDS by 2030 with a bold approach that uses an inequalities lens to close the gaps preventing progress to end AIDS.
- Press Release
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- NASEM Report: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Adopting a Sexual Health Paradigm
A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee examined the prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections in the United States and the resulting report provides advice on future public health programs, policy, and research.
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- CDC's MMWR: Tuberculosis — United States, 2020
The provisional 2020 TB data reveal a dramatic decline in the number of reported cases of TB disease in the United States. In 2020, a total of 7,163 TB cases were reported in the United States compared to 8,909 TB cases in 2019, which represents a 20% decrease from the previous year.
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NOTE: All times are expressed in Eastern Time unless otherwise noted. All dates refer to 2021 unless otherwise noted.
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National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day - April 10
 National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day (#NYHAAD), observed annually on April 10, educates the public about the impact of HIV/AIDS on youth and highlights the work youth do to strengthen the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. You can raise awareness of HIV among young people and provide information on stigma, prevention, testing, and care using CDC's Let's Stop HIV Together campaign resources.
COVID-19 and HIV Resources
 CIRA has launched a webpage that provides a wide range of resources surrounding COVID-19 and HIV. The webpage will be updated regularly as new information and materials become available. The resources include COVID-19-related funding opportunities, call for papers, research tools and guidance, and many more. Contact Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu) for questions or comments about the web page.
CIRA Peer Review Program
 Are you planning to submit a grant application? Do you have a manuscript in progress? Are you working on a presentation for a conference? Increase your chances for success by having your work peer-reviewed!
Why CIRA peer review? What are the benefits?
- The spirit of our program is one of collegiality and respect; it is constructive rather than evaluative in nature
- The investigator or author receives constructive feedback from a multidisciplinary group of colleagues with relevant expertise
- It facilitates a discussion on how to communicate the content more clearly and effectively
- The process allows the investigator or author to practice how to respond to reviewer feedback
- The review sessions connect the investigator or author to a useful network for expanding knowledge and exploring potential collaborations across disciplines
- It provides input on the relevancy of the proposal/manuscript/presentation to the funding agencies/mechanisms, journals, and audience
Email Katie Doucet (katie.doucet@yale.edu) for questions or to schedule a Peer Review session. Requests for peer review must be submitted 4 weeks prior to the requested review date.
Research Snapshot Series
 CIRA's Research Snapshot series features one page summaries of completed, peer reviewed and published studies conducted by our affiliated scientists. The summaries describe the reason for the study, the key findings, and implications for practice and policy, presented in plain language. Each of the briefs also include a link to a published article in a peer reviewed journal that derives from the featured study.
If you are a CIRA Affiliate and interested in submitting a brief for publication or just want to discuss the process, contact Pete Donohue, pete.donohue@yale.edu.
Did you know our eBulletin is Archived?
 For your convenience, we have archived all issues of CIRA's eBulletin. No need to dig through your emails to find an old issue.
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