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Gay, bisexual men face greater psychological risk in repressive countries
 Gay and bisexual men suffer significant psychological harm when living in countries where legal protections and social attitudes combine to create structural stigma against them, according to new research led by the Yale School of Public Health. Published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, the study is believed to be the first to evaluate the effects of country-level structural stigma on the mental health of this population by examining geographic mobility patterns. The lead author is John Pachankis, the Susan Dwight Bliss Associate Professor of Public Health at Yale.
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3 Essential Questions with Dr. Yusuf Ransome: HIV/AIDS and the Fight Against Disparities
 To commemorate World AIDS Day, Yusuf Ransome, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health, took some time to discuss the challenges ahead in the HIV/AIDS epidemic and what needs to be done to reduce and eliminate disparities.
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REGISTER: CIRA Talk: "Recommending Physical Activity in the Context of HIV and Substance Use"
 Tuesday, December 14, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Zoom only
Join us on Zoom for a CIRA Talk focused on how physical activity can be recommended to elicit therapeutic benefits for persons with HIV and substance use. Presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with the seminar audience.
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- Telehealth in HIV: Lessons Learned and Future Direction
Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
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- Yale School of Public Health Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases Seminar Series: "Adherence to PrEP: A Journey from Development to Implementation"
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Speaker: Jessica Haberer, MD, MS (MGH Center for Global Health)
Co-Sponsored by CIRA
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- SEICHE Center for Health and Justice Seminar Series: Policing & Health - "Unemployment, Incarceration and Police Brutality: What I've Learned About Intersectionality and Structural Inequality from My HIV Prevention Research with U.S. Black Men."
Date: Wednesday, December 8, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Speaker: Dr. Lisa Bowleg (The George Washington University)
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- The Updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy: What’s New and What’s Next? A Webinar on How to Use the Strategy
Date: Thursday, December 9, 3:00pm-4:00 pm
Further Details
Preview the Strategy
- Treating HIV at the Intersections of Substance Use Disorder and Homelessness
Date: Friday, December 10, 12:00 pm
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- CIRA Talk: "Recommending Physical Activity in the Context of HIV and Substance Use"
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Speaker: Linda S. Pescatello, FACSM, FAHA, FNAK (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT)
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- Lessons Learned: Implementing and Expanding Social Need Screening Program in Health Centers
Date: Tuesday, December 14, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm
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- NIH Workshop Building Unifying Systems of Care Addressing Comorbidities in Women and Girls
Date: Thursday-Friday, December 16–17, 11:00 am–5:30 pm
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- CIRA Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG): "St. Louis Enhancing Engagement and Retention in HIV Care (STEER): Stakeholder Input for Adapting a Community Health Worker Intervention"
Date: Friday, December 17, 12:00 pm-1:30 pm
Presenter: Debbie Humphries (Yale School of Public Health)
Contact: Lauretta Grau (lauretta.grau@yale.edu)
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- Call for Abstracts: 2022 NIDA International Forum
Abstract Submission Due Date: January 16, 2022
Event Dates: June 10-13, 2022The NIDA International Program is also accepting travel award requests.
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- Call for Submissions: AIDS 2022
Abstract Submission Due Date: January 27, 2022
Abstract Mentor Program Dates: November 8, 2021-January 14, 2022
Scholarship Application Submission Due Date: January 31, 2022
Conference Dates: July 29-August 2, 2022
Further Details
Download an Excel spreadsheet compilation of active funding opportunities. Opportunities previously not listed are below.
- Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth (WICY) Existing Geographic Service Areas
Closing Date for Applications: January 28, 2022
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- (NOSI): Mechanistic studies on the impact of substance use in sex and gender differences in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders
First Available Due Date: February 5, 2022
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- (NOSI): Reducing Stigma Related to Drug Use in Human Service Settings
First Available Due Date: February 5, 2022
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- Supporting Replication (SURE) of Housing Interventions in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program
Application Due Date: February 23, 2022
Further Details for Evaluation Provider
Further Details for Implementation and Technical Assistance Provider
- The Mercury Project: Call For Proposals
Funding to support research to quantify the costs and harms of mis- and disinformation, and identify new tools to reduce its impact in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
Initial letters of inquiry are accepted on a rolling basis from now through May 1, 2022
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- NIH HEAL Initiative: Preventing Opioid Misuse and Co-Occurring Conditions by Intervening on Social Determinants (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)
Application Due Date: March 2, 2022
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- amfAR Target Grants RfP: Research Projects Focused on Curing HIV
Application Due Date: Queries can be submitted at any time. Full proposals will be reviewed each February, May and August, with funding to start in March, June and September.
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- Measures and Methods to Advance Research on Minority Health and Health Disparities-Related Constructs (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Application Due Dates: February 5, 2022; February 5, 2023; February 5, 2024
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- Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) Scientific Leadership Center (UM2 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date(s): March 31, 2022
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- Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) Operations and Collaborations Center (UM2 Clinical Trial Optional)
AIDS Application Due Date(s): March 31, 2022
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- (NOSI): Examining Effects of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) on Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Function
First Available Due Date: May 7, 2022
Further Details
- An Experimental Study of the Effects of Patient Race, Sexual Orientation, and Injection Drug Use on Providers' PrEP-Related Clinical Judgments
Sarah K Calabrese, David A Kalwicz, Djordje Modrakovic, Valerie A Earnshaw, E Jennifer Edelman, Samuel R Bunting, Ana María Del Río-González, Manya Magnus, Kenneth H Mayer, Nathan B Hansen, Trace S Kershaw, Joshua G Rosenberger, Douglas S Krakower, John F Dovidio
AIDS and Behavior. 2021 Nov 9. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03495-3. Online ahead of print.
NOTE: This study received funding from CIRA through the Pilot Project Program.
- The shifting age distribution of people with HIV using antiretroviral therapy in the United States, 2020 to 2030
Keri N Althoff, Cameron N Stewart, Elizabeth Humes, Jinbing Zhang, Lucas Gerace, Cynthia M Boyd, Cherise Wong, Amy C Justice, Kelly Gebo, Jennifer E Thorne, Anna A Rubtsova, Michael A Horberg, Michael J Silverberg, Sean X Leng, Peter F Rebeiro, Richard D Moore, Kate Buchacz, Parastu Kasaie
AIDS2021. Nov 8. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003128. Online ahead of print.
- Patient experiences of switching from Efavirenz- to Dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy: a qualitative study in Uganda
Adelline Twimukye, Miriam Laker, Eva Agnes Laker Odongpiny, Florence Ajok, Henry Onen, Ivan Kalule, Phoebe Kajubi, Kay Seden, Noela Owarwo, Agnes Kiragga, Mari Armstrong-Hough, Anne Katahoire, Andrew Mujugira, Mohammed Lamorde, Barbara Castelnuovo
BMC Infectious Diseases2021. Nov 13;21(1):1154. doi: 10.1186/s12879-021-06851-9.
- Recording: CIRA Talk "Interrupting HIV stigma in the household using home HIV testing offers in South Africa and Uganda"
Recorded November 3, 2021
Further Details
- Recording: CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG) - Claudia-Santi Ferrante Fernandes, Yale School of Medicine - The Development of a Digital Intervention Delivered in School-Based Health Centers to Prevent Suicide among Youth who Misuse Opioids
Recorded November 17, 2021
Further Details
- 2021 World AIDS Day report — Unequal, unprepared, under threat: why bold action against inequalities is needed to end AIDS, stop COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics
Further Details
- Vital Signs: HIV Infection, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men — United States, 2010–2019
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- Recordings and Materials: 25th Annual Center for AIDS Research National Meeting (November 1-5, 2021)
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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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Happy Holidays from CIRA
 To our friends and colleagues far away and near, seasons greetings and best wishes for the New Year from all of us at CIRA.
CIRA's Qualitative Research Discussion Group (QRDG)
 Fri, December 17, Noon-1:30 pm
Debbie Humphries, Yale School of Public Health - St. Louis Enhancing Engagement and Retention in HIV Care (STEER): Stakeholder Input for Adapting a Community Health Worker Intervention
We are Recruiting for CIRA Fellowship Programs
 Applications are open for CIRA's two Fellowship programs - Yale AIDS Prevention Training Program (Y-APT) and the Research Education Institute for Diverse Scholars (REIDS).
Further information and applications
CIRA Peer Review Program
 CIRA's Peer Review Program is designed to enhance the quality of grant proposals, manuscripts, and research presentations written by CIRA affiliates by sharing them with a multidisciplinary group of colleagues for their critique and feedback. The spirit of our program is one of collegiality and respect; it is constructive rather than evaluative in nature. We encourage peer review at any stage of development, from a 2-3 page concept sheet to a penultimate draft.
Please submit your request for Peer Review 4 weeks prior to requested review date. Review materials are due:
- Specific Aims: 5 days in advance of the review date
- Grant Sections (i.e. approach, significance etc): 7 days in advance of the review date
- Full Grant proposal: 14 days in advance of the review date
- Sections of a paper (i.e. methods, tables, discussion etc): 7 days in advance of the review date
- Full Manuscript: 10 days in advance of the review date
- Concept paper: 5 days in advance of the review date
- Conference Presentation: nothing due in advance
- Conference Poster: 5 days in advance of the review date
Sessions are held at CIRA's Offices (135 College Street, Suite 200, New Haven CT) on Zoom, or via email and last around one hour. Reviews are typically led by a primary reviewer; whose role is to provide oral and written feedback on each proposal. This is followed by the other reviewers’ feedback and then we hold a group discussion.
The peer review process has multiple benefits: Researchers gain from practical advice on products. Also, they offer a rare opportunity for a cross-section of the entire CIRA community – scientists, staff, community representatives and post-doctoral fellows – to keep abreast of and discuss the very latest research, to forge additional, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and to expand and build on professional networks.
To request a Peer Review, please click here. For further information or questions, please contact Katie Doucet (katie.doucet@yale.edu).
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.
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?
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