Catching life of enjoyment is every one’s prodigy but what if this enjoyment becomes a curse! This is what happening with maximum youths that constitute the most vibrant and galvanizing country America. They have got into the grip of most dreaded of all diseases HIV with most affected of them are gay or bisexual men of all races, and sects including Hispanics or Latinos.
Among all MSMs, young blacks between age group of 13 to 29 are most vulnerable of all as compared to any other age/racial group. Black gays infected from HIV are twice more than that of whites and Hispanics/Latinos. This situation has become one of the biggest causes of concern for the Health department with special focus on African-American and Hispanic/Latino Men.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced grants to give support towards the task of evaluation of interventions to determine if they can decrease HIV related risk behaviors or new HIV or STD diagnosis. Approximately $800,000 grant will be made accessible in the fiscal year 2009 for funding four awards.
CDC will also provide funds to the applicants who are eligible to show their commitment and partnership with the locally based communities and organizations. Their main objective would be evaluating the prevention interventions that have been rendered potentially effective but evaluated insufficient targeting especially African-American who either have sex with other men or attain high-risk Hispanic/Latino MSM.
Community based organizations must provide evidence to show that they have developed the intervention with their close interaction with population who are at the razor’s edge. In other words, they are at a high risk of attaining HIV. Their locally developed or homegrown intervention must be based according to the behavioral theory that aims to decrease the risk behaviors associated with HIV or STD among the targeted people.
Interventions could also be based on the expansions or modifications of current behavioral theories, which could become the basis for innovative intervention strategies or activities and could deal with the behavioral changes among groups at individual levels.
The eligible applicants could be any organizations or institutes whether profit or nonprofit like State and local governments; small, minority, and women-oriented business, colleges or research institutes, hospitals, faith based organizations and Tribal Epidemiology Centers among others. These organizations should have deep commitment and eagerness to work among these minority population and capable enough to deliver the results in an appropriate time.
Monday, April 26, 2010
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