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The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) took place this year in Denver Colorado on March 3-6. This conference is used to provide a forum for basic scientists and clinical investigators to present, discuss, and critique their investigations into the epidemiology and biology of human retroviruses and associated diseases....

The Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Cores of ºÚÁÏÍø and Duke CFARs co-hosted an exciting in person Spring 2024 Networking Event. The event, “Untangling the Quagmire of Stigma,” explored how best to use stigma assessment to identify effective stigma reduction interventions. With over sixty-five attendees and held at Duke University’s...

Dr. Tiffany Breger attended the 27th Annual CFAR Meeting as an Early-Stage Investigator scholarship recipient at which she presented her research on statin uptake among participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study. Among nearly 1700 men and women indicated for statin treatment between 2014 and 2018...

It is with heavy hearts that we share the passing of ºÚÁÏÍø CFAR’s Co-Director, Ada Adimora, Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine and professor of epidemiology. Dr. Adimora, a brilliant and compassionate physician scientist, left an indelible mark in our program, department, and the broader medical community. Dr. Adimora...

ºÚÁÏÍø-Chapel Hill was recently named a National HIV Residency Pathway Consortium Site and awarded a year-long, $68,000 grant to support its efforts in training family medicine and internal medicine residents in caring for people with HIV. ºÚÁÏÍø’s site Investigators, Rick Moore, MD, and Louise Rambo King, MD, have a storied...

This article has been reposted from ºÚÁÏÍø’s Institute of Global Health and Infectious Disease website. To see the full article, please click here.   1) What is CFAR? Swanstrom: “ºÚÁÏÍø CFAR is one of 19 NIH Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) programs across the US that promote high quality AIDS...

The below Traditional Developmental Award funding opportunity is an open solicitation for proposals on any HIV-related topic in alignment with NIH funding priorities. In addition, the Developmental Core periodically posts Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs) in ºÚÁÏÍø CFAR priority areas. A NOSI for a Secondary Data Analysis of specific databases...

The ºÚÁÏÍø CFAR Traditional Developmental Award RFP guidance for proposals should be used unless otherwise noted in this NOSI CFAR Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Request for Proposals for Collaborative Clinical-Social Science Secondary Data Analyses (SDA) Awards The University of North Carolina Center For AIDS Research (CFAR) is soliciting proposals...

Developmental Microgrant RFA The ºÚÁÏÍø CFAR Developmental Core is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity meant to address emergent research barriers and needs arising in CFAR-funded research conducted by Early Stage Investigators (ESIs), international or NC HBCU ESIs with a strong connection to a ºÚÁÏÍø CFAR institution, and established...

What is MI? Motivational Interviewing is a person-centered counseling style for addressing the common problem of ambivalence about change. It is designed to strengthen an individual’s motivation for and movement toward a specific goal by eliciting and exploring the person’s own reasons for change within an atmosphere of acceptance, collaboration,...