Developing and Testing Pilot Prevention Interventions to Reduce Sexual Risk Behavior and Enhance PrEP Use among HIV-negative Black and Hispanic Substance-using Gay, Bisexual, and Other MSM

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This notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) supports investigator-driven research and invites recipients to conceive, design, develop, direct, and conduct data collection to meet the project goals outlined herein. The NOFO purpose is to support pilot research to develop and test two (2) behavioral interventions to enhance HIV and STI prevention implementation (PrEP, condoms) among HIV-negative gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM), one (1) award for Black/African American (Black) MSM and one (1) award for Hispanic/Latino (Hispanic) MSM who report substance (drug or alcohol) use before or during unprotected (condom-less and Prep-less) anal sex with a non-primary male partner in the past 3 months (herein substance-using MSM, SUMSM). Each application should be for one of the two groups. The study design and required sample size will meet minimum requirements for consideration of the CDC Compendium of Best Evidence (CDC, 2023), and thus may have the potential for future CDC HIV prevention funding implementation in jurisdictions around the United States. The research sites must be priority jurisdictions outlined in Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States (EHE) (CDC, 2024), in support of the goals of EHE, the National Strategic Plan, and other federal prevention planning efforts.