# Caribbean, Central, and South America network for HIV Epidemiology (CCASAnet)

> **NIH NIH U01** · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · 2021 · $3,250,000

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology (CCASAnet) is an established and
productive network within the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (leDEA) program.
CCASAnet was created in 2006 during the first leDEA funding cycle and has brought together clinical, statistical,
epidemiologic, and informatics resources from HIV clinical care and research sites in Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru, along with a coordinating center in Nashville, USA. Together, the members
of the CCASAnet collaboration respond to scientific opportunities arising in the region and across HIV research
networks worldwide. The CCASAnet Data Coordinating Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VDCC)
manages the CCASAnet consortium and works to harmonize and analyze the complex databases generated by
participating sites. The VDCC also provides mentoring and education to enhance clinical research and data
management capabilities at CCASAnet sites, promote junior researchers, and catalyze ongoing growth of
scientific leadership in the region. Over the next five years, CCASAnet will assess inequities in the HIV continuum
of care; the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV care delivery; outcomes in vulnerable populations
including migrants, those "lost to follow-up," and pregnant women; determinants and prevention of non-
communicable diseases; and treatment outcomes in TB patients with and without HIV. We will also characterize
psychosocial, behavioral, and non-communicable disease clinical outcomes in adolescents, transgender, and
older persons through new prospective cohorts nested in the CCASAnet retrospective clinical cohort. We will
continue to develop and apply innovative biostatistics and informatics methods, grow our productive
collaborations with other IeDEA regions, and provide leadership in the site assessment, data harmonization, and
data sharing initiatives. Through these activities, CCASAnet 4 will help advance both the science of HIV
epidemiology and the information science that underpins international research collaboration.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10241647
- **Project number:** 2U01AI069923-17
- **Recipient organization:** VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Pedro Enrique Cahn
- **Activity code:** U01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $3,250,000
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2006-06-15 → 2026-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10241647

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10241647, Caribbean, Central, and South America network for HIV Epidemiology (CCASAnet) (2U01AI069923-17). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10241647. Licensed CC0.

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