Hiv/Aids and Other Infections Among Drug Users in the Criminal Justice System

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Hiv/Aids and Other Infections Among Drug Users in the Criminal Justice System: This RFA invites epidemiological, prevention, and services research on HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adult and juvenile drug users in the criminal justice system receiving legal supervision in community-based settings, such as the drug courts, diversion initiatives, or community re-entry programs. Specifically, NIDA seeks innovative research to advance knowledge and understanding of the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment service needs of drug users in the criminal justice system who have or are at high-risk for HIV and other infectious diseases, and who receive legal supervision in the community setting. Results from these studies are expected to inform future developments in behavioral interventions and services to prevent and treat the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases among individuals in the criminal justice system with substance abuse-related problems. Applicants are encouraged to address behavioral, social, medical, systems-level, and environmental factors that impact the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS and other diseases in this population; to design and pilot test behavioral interventions to prevent HIV/AIDS and other comorbid conditions associated with the initiation, resumption, or progression of substance abuse and unsafe sex; and to develop and test systems-level models for integrating strategies to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases among drug users in the criminal justice system. The challenge of achieving long-term HIV risk reduction and behavioral change among drug users in the criminal justice system is especially complex given the personal, familial, social, environmental, and criminal diversity of the population. By improving our knowledge and understanding of the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment service needs of criminally-involved drug users who may have, or be at high-risk for, HIV and other infections, this initiative will advance developments in behavioral interventions and services to prevent and treat HIV and other blood-borne and sexually transmitted diseases in this population. It will also lead to new developments in systems-level models for integrating prevention and treatment services for HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases into the criminal justice system. For the purposes of this RFA, the term drug user in the criminal justice system refers to any drug user who lives in the community and is receiving some form of community-based legal supervision under the auspices of the criminal justice system. Such individuals may be recently released or transitioning from a criminal justice institution into the community. Legal supervision may include, but is not limited to, drug courts, diversion initiatives, probation, parole, or other community re-entry programs. It includes supervision during the transitional phase of an inmate's release from an institution into the community, but not supervision while the inmate is in jails, prisons, or other detention centers.