# Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) Coordinating Center- Supplement

> **NIH NIH U24** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2021 · $4,991,361

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The goal of this U24 application is to extend our five-year award as Coordinating Center (CC) for the
NICHD-sponsored Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) for one additional
year. The objective of ATN is to increase awareness among at-risk youth of their HIV status and, for those with
HIV, achieve linkage, engagement and retention in the care continuum. Many challenges are faced by
adolescents during their transition to young adulthood, resulting from developmental changes, peer influences,
identity, and self-esteem formation. Risky behaviors among adolescents, which include engaging in
unprotected sexual encounters or sharing nonsterile injecting drug paraphernalia, increase their likelihood of
acquiring HIV infection. In the 2013 US Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (YRBSS), 34% of US high
school students reported sexual intercourse during the prior 3 months, of which only 59% indicated condom
use during last sexual intercourse. The YRBSS also found that only 13% of students had ever been tested for
HIV infection. Given the global burden of new HIV infections among young people, greater involvement of
adolescents in biomedical and behavioral HIV research is essential. However, significant individual,
operational, and community-level barriers have been recognized to engaging adolescents in clinical prevention
trials, which include insufficient understanding of research, need for parental consent, lack of access, mistrust
and stigma associated with research participation. For the past five years, the ATN has developed and
implemented a comprehensive research portfolio to address these issues. As ATN Coordinating Center, we
have supported the Network's research by providing scientific leadership and organizational support for ATN
research studies and programs. During this extension year, we will continue to emphasize collaboration and
provide experienced leadership to complete and close-out research studies across the network and
disseminate findings through our various communication channels. Our research operations and administration
teams will continue to provide a solid foundation to ATN by facilitating communication, conducting
cross-protocol analyses to leverage Network research, supporting submission of study data to DASH, and
supporting abstract and publication preparation and submission. This extension year will allow the
extraordinary research conducted during this funding cycle of the ATN to be completed and disseminated for
maximum impact on the health of adolescents at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10444497
- **Project number:** 3U24HD089880-05S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** Michael G Hudgens
- **Activity code:** U24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $4,991,361
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-07-03 → 2022-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10444497

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10444497, Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) Coordinating Center- Supplement (3U24HD089880-05S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10444497. Licensed CC0.

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