Prevention Program
Overview
This program supports studies to prevent the acquisition of HIV infection for infants, children, or adolescents at risk for HIV-1. These studies can be at the level of the individual, family, group, or community both domestically and international.
Areas of Emphasis
- Develop, apply, evaluate, and implement interventions to prevent HIV-infection in children and adolescents by delaying onset of risk behaviors, reducing frequency of risk behaviors, and increasing health promoting behaviors.
- Determine the effects of the social and physical environment in which the child is growing up on the development of health promoting and HIV-risk reducing behaviors.
- Develop and test interventions to improve adherence to treatments and health protective behaviors and focus on the transition in personal responsibility associated with entering adolescence and young adulthood.
- Develop age, language, and culture-appropriate educational products and programs for HIV prevention.
- Develop assessment technologies as well as methodological and statistical tools for the evaluation of natural history and intervention related change in behavioral, cognitive, and social development of infants, children and adolescents affected by HIV or at-risk for HIV-1, particularly where applicable to resource poor environments.
Contact
Susannah Allison, Ph.D.
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6206, MSC 9619
301-443-3592, allisonsu@mail.nih.gov
