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December 2021 - Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions

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Funding Opportunities

Two ATN-related Funding Opportunity Announcements were published this month.

Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) Scientific Leadership Center (UM2 Clinical Trial Optional)

Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) Operations and Collaborations Center (UM2 Clinical Trial Optional)

The full list of additional selected funding opportunities is here.

2021 Winter Break Closure for ATN Coordinating Center

Happy Holidays and best wishes for the New Year to you and yours!

The UNC - Chapel Hill Coordinating Center (CC) will be closed for the university’s winter break, beginning Friday, December 24, 2021 and reopening on Monday, January 3, 2022. During this time, the coordinating center's staff will not be monitoring ATN email inboxes (such as atnhelp@unc.edu). For any other issues that arise during this closure, we will respond to your message as soon as possible once we are back in the office. There will be limited staff in the office on Thursday, December 23, 2021 to answer any last minute questions you may have before we close. If you anticipate any urgent issues during the time the CC is closed, please contact us to discuss. If you are not sure who to contact, email atnhelp@unc.edu.

Publications

Daily Predictors of ART Adherence Among Young Men Living with HIV Who Have Sex with Men: A Longitudinal Daily Diary Study. Published in the journal AIDS and Behavior.

Optimizing Screening for Anorectal, Pharyngeal, and Urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae Infections in At-Risk Adolescents and Young Adults in New Orleans, Louisiana and Los Angeles, California, United States. Published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.

PrEP Demonstration Project Showed Superior Adherence with Tenofovir Alafenamide/Emtricitabine Compared to Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate/Emtricitabine in a Sample of Partnered Sexual Minority Men. Published in the journal AIDS and Behavior.

News

Discussing Intimate Partner Violence

From ATN 157 We Prevent and Fenway Health

The iTech study ATN 157, We Prevent, was a study of an online HIV prevention intervention for sexual minority men ages 15 to 24 who were in romantic relationships. We Prevent researchers found that a large proportion of participants reported some form of intimate partner violence. So they worked with Fenway Health's Violence Recovery Program in Boston, Massachusetts to create this video on resources and support for LGBTQ+ survivors of intimate partner violence - click play on the video above, or watch the video by clicking here.

Mystery Shopping to Assess HIV Testing Sites

Testing the Testers: How Mystery Shoppers can Improve HIV Prevention Services.

In the iTech study ATN 139, Get Connected, youth participants were trained to be mystery shoppers and visited HIV testing clinics to assess the experiences they have with these services. See some key insights resulting from the study in this infographic from iTech.

The Next Generation of HIV Researchers

Read this post from Maureen M. Goodenow, PhD, Associate Director for AIDS Research and Director, Office of AIDS Research (OAR), National Institutes of Health, on "Enhancing Support for the Next Generation of HIV Researchers."

Updated PrEP Guidelines

New guidelines for prescribing PrEP are now available for providers. See a blog post from Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, the Director of HIV Prevention for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, for a look at what changed.

The STRIVE Initiative from NICHD

The STrategies to enRich Inclusion and achieVe Equity (STRIVE) Initiative, launched by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), is an effort to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in all aspects of the institution's research and workforce. Read more about STRIVE here.

New CDC Medical Monitoring Report

An HIV Surveillance Report from the CDC is now available. This special report contains data and analysis on Behavioral and Clinical Characteristics of Persons Living with Diagnosed HIV Infection - Medical Monitoring Project, United States, 2019 Cycle. Download the full report here.

Also from the CDC - See a new Vital Signs report: "HIV Infection, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men - United States, 2010–2019."

Ending the HIV Epidemic Supplement Awards

The National Institutes of Health announced 36 awards to Centers for AIDS Research and National Institute of Mental Health-funded AIDS Research Centers in October. See the list of institutions and the titles of projects receiving this funding here. These funds will be used for the Ending the HIV Epidemic plan's research priority areas.

Global Mental Health and HIV Prevention and Care

The International AIDS Society recently presented a symposium on HIV prevention and care with a focus on mental health interventions. The event took place on World Mental Health Day and included guest editors and authors of publications from the special JIAS issue, "Global Mental Health and HIV Prevention and Care." View the recording of this event here or press play above.

Global Viral Suppression of HIV

A National Institutes of Health-funded study of people living with HIV in 31 countries, including children and adolescents, measured long-term viral suppression. They compared the analysis to United Nations targets, and published results in the journal The Lancet HIV. Read more about this study in a media advisory from the NIH.

Conferences and Events

Trying to keep track of what conferences have moved to a virtual format, rescheduled, canceled? Maybe this list can help: Research meetings and conferences, for HIV prevention and care, youth-centered health, and major events for public health research.

Featured Events:

Attend a listening session from the National Institutes of Health for its UNITE Initiative, which was created to address structural racism. Sessions are held online via Zoom web conferencing. Dates and topics from now until February are listed here.

February 12-16, 2022: Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Denver, CO, including virtual and in-person sessions.

July 29 - August 2, 2022. AIDS 2022. Montreal, Canada and virtually. Registration is open. Abstract submission is open until January 27, 2022.

April 27-28, 2022: The Spring ATN Meeting. Please save the date.

About Your ATN Presentations / Abstracts ...

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