Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative

The summary for the Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is accepting applications for fiscal year (FY) 2008 for Prevention of Substance Abuse (SA) and HIV for At-Risk Racial/Ethnic Minority Subpopulations (Short Title: Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative) cooperative agreements. The purpose of this program is to support an array of activities to assist grantees in building a solid foundation for delivering and sustaining quality and accessible state of the science substance abuse and HIV prevention services. Specifically, the program aims to engage community-level domestic public and private non-profit entities to prevent and reduce the onset of SA and transmission of HIV/AIDS among at-risk racial/ethnic minority subpopulations that are described below. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the number of people infected with HIV in the United States ranges from 800,000 to 900,000. The HIV/AIDS sub-epidemics not only vary by region and community but also by population, risk behavior, and geography. Elimination of such disparities among certain racial and ethnic groups, particularly African American and Hispanic populations, remains a challenge. Since the AIDS epidemic began, injection drug use (IDU) has accounted for more than one-third of AIDS cases in the United States. Of the 43,517 new cases of AIDS reported in 2000, 25 percent were injection drug use (IDU)-associated1. Racial/ethnic minorities in the U.S. are most heavily affected by IDU-associated AIDS. In 2000, African American adults and adolescents accounted for 26 percent of IDU-associated AIDS cases and Hispanic adults and adolescents accounted for 31 percent, as compared to 19 percent of all IDU-associated AIDS cases among their white counterparts. IDU-associated AIDS accounts for a larger proportion of cases among women than among men. Fifty-seven (57) percent of all AIDS cases reported among women have been attributed to injection drug use or sex with partners who inject drugs as compared with 31 percent of cases among men. Despite the decline in AIDS cases in certain populations and regions resulting from improved HIV treatment, 2003 data reported by CDC indicate that more people are living with HIV/AIDS than ever before2. CDC estimates that about 1 million people in the United States are living with HIV or AIDS and about one quarter of these people are unaware of their infection, which puts them and others at risk. Groups at highest risk since the beginning of the epidemic include men having sex with men (MSM) and IDUs. Other groups who are also at high risk for HIV transmission include people of color, women (particularly Black and Latina/Hispanic women), and youth13. SAMHSA, therefore, is particularly interested in eliciting the interest of providers who can offer quality services to the following at-risk racial/ethnic minority subpopulations residing in a geographic area(s) with high SA and HIV/AIDS prevalence. Applicants are required to indicate one racial/ethnic minority subpopulation from the following list that they propose to target in their eligible catchment area: 1) reentry populations (i.e., racial/ethnic minorities who have been released from prisons and jails within the past 2 years); 2) men having sex with men (MSM); 3) Black, Latina or Hispanic women; 4) adolescents (age 12-17); 5) young adults (age 18-24); and 6) older adults, age 50 and over. While grantees will have substantial flexibility in designing their grant projects, all are required to base their projects on the five steps of SAMHSAs Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) to build state of the science SA and HIV/AIDS prevention capacity for their targeted at-risk racial/ethnic minority population. Minority SA/HIV Prevention Initiative cooperative agreements are authorized under Section 516 of the Public Health Service Act, as amended. This announcement addresses Healthy People 2010 focus area 26 (Substance Abuse).