CFAR Adelante
Purpose
The CFAR Adelante Program Research Capacity Program works to advance HIV research in Latinx communities by providing mentored development to early stage investigators whose research focuses on decreasing HIV-related health disparities among Hispanic and/or Latina/o/x people in the United States. Coordinated by the Emory CFAR with assistance from the DC CFAR, Adelante — which means forward or onward in Spanish — is funded by the NIH with two important goals - to support culturally responsive research specific to the needs and concerns of Hispanic and Latinx communities which bear a disproportionate burden of the HIV epidemic in the U.S.; and to widen the pipeline of investigators and community-based organizations working to address HIV in these populations
Adelante — which means forward or onward in Spanish — is funded by the NIH to help respond to that need.
Through the CFAR Adelante, the NIH-funded Centers for AIDS Research (CFARs) are working to advance HIV research in Latinx communities by providing mentored development to early career investigators whose research focuses on decreasing HIV-related health disparities among Hispanic and/or Latina/o/x people in the United States.
DC CFAR Social and Behavioral Sciences Core Co-Director, Dr. Nina Yamanis (pictured left), serves as the Adelante Program Co-Director for Social and Behavioral Sciences and the DC CFAR Representative and contact.
CFAR Adelante Award Recipients
2019 CFAR Adelante Award DC CFAR Investigator:
Dr. Leah Varga (DC Health)
Dr. Varga's project was entitled, "Latinos living with HIV in DC: Exploring experiences in engagement and retention in care".This study will used an intersectionality framework to examine how the health outcomes of Latinos living with HIV in Washington, DC are impacted by multiple social-structural factors. Specifically, quantitative and qualitative data will be gathered using the DC Cohort and interviews and focus groups to help understand the multi-layered factors that support or deter engagement in health care and viral suppression among Latinos, with an emphasis on examining the health impacts of how these individuals experience different forms of inequality. DC CFAR Investigator Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, PhD served as a mentor on the project.
2017 CFAR Adelante Award DC CFAR Investigator:
Dr. Ana Maria del Rio Gonzalez (GW)
Dr. del Rio Gonzalez's project was entitled, "Factors associated with PrEP intentions and use among Latina immigrant transgender women in the DC metropolitan area". This study focused on individual and social-structural factors associated with intentions to use and actual use of PrEP among Latina immigrant trans women, ages 18 and older, living in the DC metropolitan area. The specific aims are: (1) To gain a culturally-grounded understanding of individual and social-structural factors associated with PrEP intentions and use among Latina immigrant trans women in DC.; (2) to assess levels of PrEP awareness, intentions and use among Latina immigrant trans women, as well as changes in these levels over a 6-month period, and to examine how individual and social-structural factors are associated with these changes, and (3) to synthesize the qualitative and quantitative results, and assess the validity of the findings.
