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Type of Grant / Project
Description |
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Sara Gillen
Aids Service Center of Lower
Manhattan
80th Fifth Avenue, Third Floor
New York,
NY
10011
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CSAP Targeted Capacity Extension for
SAT & HIV/AIDS Grant
ASC
will develop and implement a Women’s Integrated Substance
Use/HIV Prevention Program targeting African-American and
Latina women in Manhattan, by providing culturally, ethnically
and linguistically appropriate prevention interventions in
English and Spanish. This program incorporates a continuum of
peer-based substance abuse use and HIV prevention
interventions, based on Prochaska’s Transtheoretical Model of
Behavior Change, and is designed to address substance use and
abuse, HIV/AIDS, and women’s related life experiences. Each
activity is a group intervention, designed to facilitate
supportive networks for women that help to reduce the
isolation and shame women often feel, as a result of traumatic
life experiences, such as childhood sexual abuse, rape,
domestic violence, and stress-related mental illnesses such as
anxiety and depression. |
Denise Paone
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York
1st Ave at 16th St
New York, NY 10003 |
NIDA
Project Sexual Abuse & HIV Risk
Trauma histories among chemically dependent populations are
just beginning to be systematically studied in an attempt to
understand the interrelationships among the effects of early
trauma, drug use, and HIV infection. We hypothesize that the
severity of sexual abuse will be predictive of participation
in HIV risk behaviors through a number of possible
psychosocial pathway variables.
Date
Started: 1-May-98 Date
Ends: 30-Apr-02 |
Don Des Jarlais
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York
1st Ave at 16th St
New York, NY 10003 |
NIDA
Project Risk Factors for AIDS Among Intravenous Drug Users
The specific aims of this continuation proposal are to study:
1) long-term trends in HIV seroprevalence among injecting drug
users (IDUs) in New York City, possible differences in
seroprevalence trends in different demographic subgroups, and
to monitor HIV incidence; 2) Long-term trends in HIV risk
behavior among IDUs in NYC, and characteristics of persons who
continue or relapse to high risk behavior; 3) social network
and “mixing” patterns among IDUs, and how these relate to
HIV infection and risk reduction; 4) transitions between
non-injecting and injecting drug use and characteristics of
new injectors, including risk behavior, social networks, and
HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV)
infection; 5) Audio-computer assisted self interviewing as a
method for obtaining more complete reporting of HIV risk
behaviors. These aims will be accomplished through
continuation of cross-sectional surveys of 1000 persons per
year entering Beth Israel Medical Center drug treatment
programs in NYC.
Date
Started: 10-Sep-94 Date
Ends: 30-Jun-04
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Don Des Jarlais
Beth Israel Medical Center
New York
1st Ave at 16th St
New York, NY 10003 |
NIDA
Project National Study of Syringe Exchange Programs
The proposed research will be the first national assessment of
the state of syringe exchange programming (SEP) in the United
States, and will use innovative data collection method to
provide more complete reporting of HIV risk behaviors among
SEP participants. The information obtained in the research
should be useful for both HIV prevention planning in the US,
as well as understanding persistent risk behavior among
persons already participating in prevention programs.
Date
Started: 15-Sep-99 Date
Ends: 31-Aug-04 |
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Carol Tobkes
Bronx AIDS Services,
Inc.
One Fordham Plaza, Suite 903
Bronx, NY 10458 |
CSAT Community Outreach - AIDS/HIV & SAT
Grant
The project’s primary emphasis will be to encourage
risk reduction behaviors including: not sharing needles, the
use of negotiation skills in high risk sexual or drug related
situations, the proper use of sexual barrier products, safer
sex behaviors, use of ziodovudine therapy in reduction of
perinatal transmission of HIV, and increased awareness of and
access to drug treatment resources and support services. The
program plans to recruit 150 participants for a seven week,
small group intervention. |
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Francine Cournos
Columbia
University
630 West 168th St
New York, NY 10032
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CMHS Grant AIDS
Training
The program, which already has reached more
than 14,000 providers, targets providers who are unlikely to
attend conventional professional training programs, including
providers in impoverished urban communities that have some of
the highest HIV case rates in the Nation. Over the years, the
program has focused on providing training opportunities to
front-line paraprofessional and non-traditional providers in
rural and suburban areas where HIV infection and AIDS are on
the rise, but appropriate training remains difficult to
obtain. Columbia’s culturally diverse team already has
developed seven training modules on facing HIV/AIDS; pre- and
post-test counseling; risk- and transmission-reduction
interventions; psychiatric, neuropsychiatric, and medical
complications of HIV/AIDS; treatment adherence; coping with
HIV/AIDS; and legal, ethical, and policy issues. The program
initially placed special emphasis on meeting the mental health
needs of people with severe mental illness who have high rates
of HIV infection but has broadened its focus to meet the
increased demand for training. The program already has
existing relationships with the American Psychiatric
Association, the American Psychological Association, and the
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill – all of which assist
in curriculum development and dissemination.
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Nabila El-Bassel
Columbia Univ. New York Morningside
1210 Amsterdam Ave
MC 2205
New York, NY 10027 |
NIDA
Project HIV Risk and Partner Violence - Men on Methadone
No further information at this time.
Date
Started: 20-Feb-99 Date
Ends: 3-Jan-03 |
Karina Walters
Columbia University New York Moringside
1210 Amsterdam Ave
MC 2205
New York, NY 10027 |
NIAAA Project
Urban American Indian Identity, Alcohol Use and HIV Risk
No further information is available at this time.
Date started 31-Jan-02 Date ends31-Jan-02 |
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Frank Wong
The Fortune Society,
Inc.
39 W 19th Street
7th Floor, New York, NY
10011
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CSAT Community Outreach - AIDS/HIV & SAT
Grant
The project will provide outreach and intervention
services to criminal justice involved men, women and
adolescents. A continuum of substance abuse treatment and
other follow-up care will be provided. |
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Linney Smith
Housing Works, Inc.
594
Broadway, Suite 700
New York, NY 10012 |
CSAT Community Outreach - AIDS/HIV & SAT
Grant
The proposed services will be conducted in Brooklyn and
Manhattan in areas where persons at risk congregate and where
Housing Works has existing sites. The project will be based on
the Indigenous Leader Outreach Model, and enhanced by housing
Works’ experience serving actively substance using homeless
persons of color living with HIV/AIDS. |
Barry Spunt
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
899 10 th Ave
New York, NY 10019 |
NIDA
Project Heroin in the 21st Century
The risk of HIV/AIDS will be a concern in New York City, where
50% of the identified drug users (IDU s) are HIV+ while only
15% receive treatment. Four hundred (400) individuals
representing the ethnic, age, and gender composition of the
city’s evolving population of users and distributors will
participate in this study to monitor heroin ethnographically
to the year 2000 in New York City. They will manifest a range
of use patterns and distributing styles.
Date
Started: 15-Jun-96 Date
Ends: 30-Apr-01 |
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Thomas Kramer
Lesbian & Gay
Community Services Center
208 West 13th Street
New York,
NY 10011 |
CSAT Community Recovery Networks
Grant
The
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Recovery Communities
Support (LGBT-RCS) enable lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT) recovering persons to provide input into
the development of substance abuse treatment services that are
more sensitive and relevant to their needs. Center clients and
alumni, as well as their partners and families, will
participate in the LGBT-RCS activities, including focus groups
and needs assessments leading to recommendations for improved
treatment, public policy training, and an educational advocacy
effort to bring LGBT voices to substance abuse providers,
policymakers and researchers. |
Robert Klein
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx
111 E. 210th St
New York, NY 10467 |
NIDA
Project Natural History of Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Drug
Users
No information is available at this time.
Date
Started: 30-Sep-99 Date
Ends: 4-Aug-04 |
Marc Gourevitch
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx
111 E 210th St
New York, NY 10467 |
NIDA Project Mycobacterium
Tuberculosis Infection in Drug Users
Tuberculosis is epidemic among drug users in New York City and
elsewhere. Accurate identification of drug users with latent
M. tuberculosis infection, to determine eligibility for
chemoprophylaxis and thereby to prevent the development of
active tuberculosis, is a critical public health goal. This
study addresses a number of unanswered questions which
currently stand in the way of attaining this goal.Date
Started: 30-Sep-94 Date
Ends: 31-Jul-00 |
Elinore McCance-Katz
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx
111 E. 210th St
New York, NY 10467 |
NIDA Project Opioids & HIV
Medications - Interactions in Drug Abuser
In this application, we propose a pilot study of once daily
directly observed HAART therapy in methadone maintained
patients. This study will represent one of the first studies
to determine whether once daily DOT in opioid replacement
programs that also provide HIV care to patients is an
effective modality for treating substance abusing patients
with HIV disease. In addition, this study will show whether
patients treated with methadone in 5-6 clinic visits weekly to
obtain benefit from these interventions.
Date
Started: 20-Apr-99 Date
Ends: 31-Mar-04 |
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Mary G. Winiarski
Montefiore Medical
Center
111 E 210th St.
Bronx, NY 10467
|
CMHS Grant
HIV/AIDS Outcomes
& Costs
The Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Health at Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine currently operate two integrated
methadone treatment and primary care programs, serving more
than 4,300 clients, of whom, more than 850 are identified as
living with HIV/AIDS. The vast majority are Latino or African
American; all have a history of heroin use. This project will
study two groups and measure adherence levels, costs of
treatment, and health outcomes. First a Multiple Diagnosis
Subgroup Study will assess 225 clients for mental health,
substance abuse, and HIV diagnoses and determine the costs,
adherence levels, and health outcomes associated with
providing treatment. An Intervention Study will target people
with Borderline Personality Disorder, which is particularly
costly to treat and often goes hand-in-hand with polysubstance
abuse, self-destructive behaviors, impulsivity, and angry
outbursts. Eligible clients will be randomly assigned to a “Treatment As
Usual” control
group or to a 1-year Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program for
substance users, a cognitive-behavioral program which focuses
on maladaptive behaviors, such as treatment nonadherence and
use of illicit drugs, and teaches adaptive behaviors and new
skills. |
Steven Belenko
National Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse
New York, NY 10019 |
NIDA
Project HIV Service Needs and Access in High Risk CJ
Populations
No current information is available.
Date
Started: 30-Sep-97 Date
Ends: 31-Jul-00 |
Gregory Falkin
National Development & Research Institutes, Inc.
New York, NY 10048 |
NIDA
Project Social Support & HIV Risk - Women Offenders in
Recovery
In addition to harm reduction approaches, the combined process
of drug-free treatment and recovery is a significant HIV risk
reduction strategy for woman who inject drugs and engage in
risky sexual activities. The premise of the proposed studies
drug-free recovery directly reduces injection drug use and
crack use, and indirectly reduces sexual risk behaviors.
Further, social support - defined as “resources provided by
others” – is essential to maintaining drug-free recovery
and influences the adoption and constant practice of HIV risk
behaviors over time. In an area barren with research, this
study will provide insight about how social support influences
HIV risk reduction behaviors among women in recovery.
Date
Started: 15-Sep-97 Date
Ends: 31-Jul-01 |
Samuel Friedman
National Development & Research Institutes, Inc.
New York, NY 10048 |
NIDA
Project Drug Use & HIV Risk Among Youth
Approximately half of injecting drug users (IDUs) and a
quarter of crack smokers in NYC are infected with HIV. In
“high-risk” neighborhoods with large concentrations of
IDUs and crack smokers, this may pose a serious threat of
sexual transmission of HIV to youth. Pilot data indicate that
many such youth engage in unprotected sex with multiple
partners and that they have very high rates of sexually
transmitted diseases. We need to know which youth are most
likely to have sex with IDUs and crack smokers, and thus to be
at high risk for becoming infected with HIV; and which youth,
in turn, are likely to have sex with the sex partners of IDUs
and crack smokers, and as a result, to be infected with HIV,
hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and perhaps other STDs. Ethnographic
research will study sexual relationships of these youth and
the social and cultural forces that support and undermine
youthful resiliency against high-risk sex and drug use. These
findings will help target interventions where they are most
needed and develop strategies to prevent high-risk drug use,
high-risk use, sex and infection with HIV.
Date
Started: 1-Jul-96 Date
Ends: 30-Jun-00 |
Samuel Friedman
National Development & Research Institutes, Inc.
New York, NY 10048 |
NIDA
Project HIV Risk Among Women IDUS Who Have Sex with Women
HIV/AIDS among injecting drug users (IDUs) is a major health
problem. A variety of studies have found that, among IDUs,
women who have sex with women (WSWs) and/or women who report
that they are lesbian or bisexual are particularly likely to
be or become infected with HIV. Since woman-with-woman sex
seems to be much less risky than heterosexual sex, this
finding is puzzling. The public health importance of this
finding is increased by previous research by this team
(Friedman et al 1995) that show that, in cities where IDUs
have relatively low HIV prevalence (<8%), WSW IDUs have a
multivariate risk ratio of seroconverting that is
approximately four times as great as for other IDUs. In
high-prevalence cities, WSW IDUs also appear to be more likely
to be infected; and are more likely to engage in a number of
risk behaviors than other IDUs. This study will lay a
necessary basis for research and interventions needed to
prevent further spread of HIV to and from WSW IDUs.
Date
Started: 20-Feb-97 Date
Ends: 31-Dec-00 |
Alan Neaigus
National Development Research Institutes, Inc.
New York, NY 10048 |
NIDA
Project Noninjecting Heroin Users, New Injectors & HIV
Risk
This study will continue the “HIV Risk and Transitions from
Non-Injecting Heroin Use” (NIU) cohort study of
approximately 600 NIUs. The approach used in this study will
advance our knowledge of the interaction between network
processes and risk behaviors, and can be used to develop
interventions to change both risk behaviors and risk networks,
and to prevent transitions to injecting and the risk of HIV,
HBV and HCV infection.
Date
Started: 1-Jul-95 Date
Ends: 31-Mar-03 |
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National Development & Research
Institute
Two World Trade Center, 16th Floor
New York,
NY 10048 |
CSAT Comprehensive Community Treatment
Grant
The
project will establish and evaluate the efficacy of an
alliance between an outreach modality as an organizational
linkage model for delivering substance abuse treatment to
female sex workers in NYC. The project will link mobile
services units from an HIV outreach program and from a
substance abuse treatment program. |
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JoAnn Y. Sacks
National Development and
Research Institute, Inc.
Two World Trade Center
16th
Floor
New York, NY 10048
|
CMHS Grant
HIV/AIDS Outcomes
& Costs
The project is to develop and assess the
effectiveness of an integrated, residential/aftercare
therapeutic community program for persons with HIV/AIDS and
comorbidity at Gaudenzia’s “People With Hope” program in
Philadelphia, PA. It is designed to assess differences in
treatment adherence, health outcomes, and cost-benefit between
the study conditions. This project both extends therapeutic
community for a comorbid HIV/AIDS population and provides an
aftercare program model that can be generalized to the broader
drug treatment, mental health, and HIV/AIDS treatment systems.
Some 340 clients will be randomly assigned to one of two
different programs. The first will be a previously existing
residential therapeutic community program followed by referral
to aftercare services with standard coordination and follow
up. The second will be a new program that follows the
residential therapeutic community program with an additional 6
months of integrated therapeutic community aftercare, offering
a broad range of outpatient program interventions, such as
case assistance, family/significant other support groups, and
a Health and HIV/AIDS Self-Management Group. |
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Sherry Deren
National Development & Research Institutes, Inc.
New York, NY 10048
|
NIDA Project PR
Drug Users in NY & PR - HIV Risk Behavior Determinants
The proposed project will study Puerto Rican drug injectors
and crack smokers in Bayamon, Puerto Rico and East Harlem, New
York – communities with high rates of HIV/AIDS among drug
users. Its primary aims are to; 1) examine the contribution of
Predisposing, enabling, and Reinforcing factors, as defined by
the PRECEDE model; within the domains of psychological,
social, health-related, cultural and environmental influences
on drug and sex-related risk behaviors; 2) assess the impact
of these determinants on changes in risk behavior over a 12
month period; 3) assess whether these determinants of risk
behavior and risk behavior change are moderated by migration,
residency, acculturation and mobility patterns; 4) assess
whether the determinants of risk behavior and risk behavior
change are moderated by serostatus; and 5) develop
recommendations for tailored interventions.
Date
Started: 1-Sep-96 Date
Ends: 30-Jun-00
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Anne Herron
Office of Alcoholism and
Substance Abuse Services
1450 Western Avenue
Albany, NY
12203 |
CSAT Targeted Capacity Expansion for SA
Treatment & HIV/AIDS Grant
The
purpose of the project is two fold: 1) to reduce the threat of
HIV/AIDS in the South Bronx by treating alcohol and substance
abuse among women who are pregnant or parenting and their
children and 2) to provide wraparound services for substance
abusing women with children who are HIV positive or have AIDS.
The project will expand the number of treatment slots from 89
beds to 155 beds. |
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Sharon Cadiz, Ed.D.
Project Return
Foundation, Inc.
10 Astor Place, 7th Floor
New York, NY
10003-6935
|
CSAT Community Outreach - AIDS/HIV & SAT
Grant
The
applicant seeks funding to further elaborate their Community
Outreach and Behavioral Transition Project, which employs a
three tiered approach to outreach for minority women. To
achieve this goal, strategic sites will be enhanced, through
technical assistance and staff development, to reduce missed
opportunities for reaching and engaging individuals in
behavioral change. |
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Angel M. LaPorte
Promesa, Inc.
1776
Clay Avenue
Bronx, NY 10457 |
CSAT Targeted Capacity Expansion/SAT &
HIV/AIDS
Promesa is a group of mutually supportive corporations
that provide bilingual/bicultural substance abuse treatment,
health care, housing, day care, education skills and
employment training, and social services. Promesa proposes to
use grant funding to expand its outpatient drug free program
to include a designated outpatient unit for women that
addresses HIV related substance abuse. |
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Michael Scimeca
St. Barnabas Hospital
& Health System
183rd & Third Avenue
Bronx, NY
10457 |
CSAT Targeted Capacity Expansion/SAT &
HIV/AIDS Grant
The
applicant is seeking funding to create a day treatment program
for patients with HIV/AIDS and substance abuse problems.
Patients and substance abuse problems. Patients will receive
medical, psychiatric, social work, pharmacological, and
nursing support. Individuals who are disenfranchised, without
insurance, or a stable environment will be
targeted. |
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Jeff Foote
St. Luke's - Roosevelt
Institute
1000 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10019 |
CSAT Comprehensive Community Treatment
Grant
The study aims to test a “motivational ramp” system
broadly designed to open access between AIDS treatment and
substance abuse treatment centers. The study will compare
patients within two conditions: a Group Motivational
Intervention, and Direct Referral. |
Kurt Dermen
SUNY at Buffalo
Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260 |
NIAAA Project
Enhancing HIV Prevention Through Drinking Reduction
College students are at heightened behavioral risk for
becoming infected with HIV. Addition of a drinking-reduction
component to AIDS education materials may improve the efficacy
of HIV risk-reduction interventions among heavy drinkers.
Findings from this study will have direct relevance to the
implementation of HIV prevention interventions among heavy or
problem drinkers, and to our understanding of the relationship
between drinking and HIV risk behavior.
Date started 30-Jun-02 Date ends30-Jun-02 |
Maria Testa
SUNY at Buffalo
Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260 |
NIAAA Project
Alcohol, HIV Risk Behaviors & Sexual Victimization
This research is designed to examine the role of alcohol
consumption, sexual activity, and exposure to risky settings
in the sexual victimization of young women.
Date started 30-Apr-04 Date ends30-Apr-04 |
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Warren Morrisett
VIP Community
Services
1910 Arthur Avenue, 4th Floor
Bronx, NY
10457 |
CSAT Community Outreach - AIDS/HIV & SAT
Grant
The project proposes to develop a comprehensive,
culturally and gender sensitive, peer supported outreach
program to engage chronic, hard-core drug users. 720 targeted
individuals will be provided on-the-spot car service
transportation to the treatment agency and a cash incentive
for accepting pre-test counseling and completing a participant
in-take survey. |
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John Carway
VIP
Community Services
1910 Arthur Avenue, 4th Floor
Bronx,
NY 10457 |
CSAT Targeted Capacity
Expansion/SAT & HIV/AIDS Grant
The primary goals of the proposed Women’s Institute
Project are to reduce substance abuse and the transmission of
HIV/AIDS among pregnant African-American and Latino women in
the Bronx who are in the applicant’s community based treatment
programs. |
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Kay Scott
Yonkers General Hospital
2
Park Avenue
New York, NY 10703-3497
|
CSAT Targeted Capacity Expansion/SAT &
HIV/AIDS Grant
A three year project designed to help substance abusing
African American and Hispanic women and their children improve
their health status, substance abuse treatment retention,
medical adherence, social functioning, and reduce their risks
of HIV transmission. The project will conduct targeted out
reach, provide one stop access to services, HIV risk reduction
education, treatment adherence counseling, specialized support
groups, multi cultural training for treatment providers, and
extensive consumer involvement. |
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