The San Diego Center for AIDS Research (SDCFAR) has been awarded $1.2 million in planning grants from the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative (EHE). The EHE initiative directs new funding to communities significantly impacted by HIV in a series of phases with the goal of reducing new HIV infections in the United States by 90 percent by 2030. CFAR will support implementation of research addressing the initiative’s four pillars: diagnose, treat, prevent and respond. On September 5, 2019, UC San Diego Health announced the awards, which are one-year awards to support pilot and formative studies to prepare for more extensive implementation science research projects in 2020. “As a world leader in HIV research, the San Diego CFAR is ready to support innovative science to eradicate this disease in collaboration with our community partners,” said Davey Smith, MD, Co-Director of San Diego CFAR and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health UC San Diego School of Medicine.
