May 5, 2015

The UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health is a sub-contractor and the only United States university partner in a cooperative agreement just signed between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG).

The title of the cooperative agreement is, “Building Capacity along the Continuum from Prevention to Care and Treatment for Key Populations in the Central America Region under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).”

Dr. Clare Barrington

Dr. Clare Barrington

This work will build off research conducted under two active grants co-led by Clare Barrington, PhD, assistant professor of health behavior at the Gillings School.

Barrington and her co-primary investigator at UVG, Sonia Morales Miranda, MS, director of the HIV Research Unit at the UVG Center for Health Studies, have been studying ways to improve HIV prevention and linkages to HIV care and retention in care among key populations for over six years. Specifically, their work focuses on men who have sex with men and transgender women, the two populations most affected by HIV in Guatemala.

Under the new five-year, 15-million dollar award, Barrington will collaborate with Morales and the HIV Research Unit on qualitative research, intervention development and evaluation across the entire Central American region.

“This new award reflects UVG’s leadership in addressing HIV disparities among key populations in Central America,” said Barrington. “It also represents an important step in the collaboration between UVG and UNC and is an exciting opportunity for both institutions to grow and expand the coverage of our work and training opportunities for our students.”


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Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: David Pesci, director of communications, (919) 962-2600 or dpesci@unc.edu.
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