Are Ending the HIV Epidemic goals attainable across race/ethnic groups, risk groups, and settings?

NIH RePORTER · NIH · R01 · $820,845 · view on reporter.nih.gov ↗

Abstract

Project Abstract In collaboration with the Shelby County Health Department, which has jurisdiction over Memphis as well as rural northwest Mississippi and Arkansas, we propose to inform policy decisions towards improving HIV outcomes for population-level and subgroup-specific HIV goals in three diverse settings that together typify high incidence locations in the U.S. HIV epidemic (New York City, Memphis, and northwest Mississippi). We will use mathematical modeling to simulate alternative ways to distribute resources across interventions, settings, and target populations to reduce HIV incidence and improve overall health. Our analyses will be distinguished by incorporating screening and responding to CASM conditions (Conditions of Alcohol, Substance and Mood), measures of inequality-aversion (i.e., willingness to trade-off some aggregate benefit in order to distribute it more equally) towards vulnerable subgroups, and the promising new modalities of long- acting-injectable PrEP and ART. Our partners at the Shelby County Health Department and their larger group of stakeholders will provide context on local HIV infection patterns and feasibility and acceptability constraints to inform modeling analyses.

Key facts

NIH application ID
11009175
Project number
1R01AA031644-01A1
Recipient
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Principal Investigator
Ronald Scott Braithwaite
Activity code
R01
Funding institute
NIH
Fiscal year
2024
Award amount
$820,845
Award type
1
Project period
2024-09-15 → 2029-06-30