Drug Abuse and Hiv Prevention in Youth

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Drug Abuse and Hiv Prevention in Youth: The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) invite grant applications for the conduct of research on drug abuse and HIV prevention in youth. The major purpose of this RFA is to fill the need for theory-driven and research-based drug abuse-related HIV prevention interventions that will be effective in decreasing the incidence of HIV infection and AIDS in youth. There is a great need for drug abuse HIV prevention interventions in youth that are efficacious and effective in the short-term and that maintain efficacy and effectiveness in the long-term. Thus, this RFA will support studies on the prevention of HIV and maintenance of effects of prior prevention interventions on youth. Youth is defined as persons under the age of 21 years. The specific purposes of this RFA are: 1) to document the prevalence, nature, and effectiveness of existing HIV prevention programs; 2) to test new drug abuse-related HIV prevention interventions in randomized control group or equivalent study designs; 3) to determine context-specific features that influence maintenance of behavior change following intervention; 4) to examine enhancers and barriers to implementing HIV prevention programs in different populations and settings; and 5) to examine long-term impact of childhood and/or adolescent drug abuse prevention interventions on subsequent HIV-related risk behaviors. Potential implementation contexts include, but are not limited to: schools and universities, health care organizations, workplaces, families, community and faith-based organizations, and media. Proposed research can test single interventions alone or combinations of interventions (e.g., school- plus peer-based interventions). Also, proposed research may capitalize on existing studies, designs and infrastructure to investigate maintenance of drug abuse and HIV-associated behavior change following prevention intervention.