A Guide to Fiscal Year 1991 Federal Funding for HIV Disease: How Dollars are Spent How to Access Them

fection and AIDS, including: neurobiological
knowledge to understand how the virus or its products attack the CNS and what genomic or other
changes occur in the CNS of humans and animals
exposed to or infected with HIV; neurobehavioral
research training to address CNS effects associated
with HIV infection and related behavioral outcomes;
impact of retrovirus on cognitive and behavior
development in primate models; changes in CNS
function during the course of the disease, including
effects of various AIDS treatments on CNS and
behavioral functioning; variability of expression in
CNS manifestations by strains of HIV and their contribution to variation in CNS symptoms and in
behavior.
* Mental Health Services Research concerning
persons with HIV infection and AIDS, including:
testing and evaluating effectiveness of mental health
services to severely mentally ill individuals with HIV
infection and AIDS; impact of mental health laws,
regulations and court decisions on the delivery of services to persons with HIV infection and AIDS who
are mentally ill; and methods, designs, and measures
for doing research on the delivery of services to mentally ill persons with HIV infection and AIDS.
* Clinical and Epidemiologic research in the
measurement course, treatment, and prevention of
HIV-related mental disorders, including: programs
focused on a mood, anxiety, personality or mental
disorder, or suicidal behavior, including tracing the
epidemiology, classification, assessment, etiology,
and course of these disorders in HIV-infected adults;
natural history and course of psychopathology in
HIV-infected individuals with pre-existing mood,
anxiety, and personality or mental disorders; design
and implementation of clinical treatment trials using
adult HIV-infected populations; prevention of depression, anxiety disorders, suicide attempts, or completed suicides in HIV-positive persons, as well as
depression or anxiety disorders in bereaved friends
and family members of these individuals; development of instruments used for assessment of mental
symptoms and disorders associated with HIV that are
valid, reliable, specific, and sensitive measures for
various age, gender, ethnic, and cultural populations;
development of assessment procedures and methodologies for determination of pre-existing or developing mental disorders in children and adolescents with
HIV infection; natural history of neuropsychiatric and
neuropsychological manifestations of HIV infection
in children and youth under 18 years of age; phenomenology, classification, etiology, course outcome,
treatment and rehabilitation of mental disorders
associated with HIV infection in children and youth
under 18 years of age; suicidal behavior associated

with HIV infection in children and youth under 18
years of age; and changes in CNS function secondary

to HIV infection in children and youth under 18 years
of age.
For more information on NIMH programs relating
to grants contact:
Division of Clinical Research
Room 10-105
5600 Fishers Ln.
Rockville, MD 20857
301/443-3648
Division of Biometry and Applied Sciences
Room 18C-26
5600 Fishers Ln.
Rockville, MD 20857
301/443-3683
Division of Basic Sciences
Room 11-103
5600 Fishers Ln.
Rockville, MD 20857
301/443-3563
Office of AIDS Programs
NIMH
Parklawn Bldg., Room 17C-04
Rockville, MD 20857
301/443-7281
Order application kits from:
Grants Awards and Operations Section
Grants Management Branch
NIMH
5600 Fishers Ln., Room 7C-05
Rockville, MD 20857
301/443-4414
National Institute of Alcoholism
and Alcohol Abuse
The National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol
Abuse (NIAAA) has conducted HIV-related research
including: epidemiological studies on risk of AIDS
among alcoholics in different racial/ethnic and gender
populations, and on alcohol use and AIDS risk factors in different racial/ethnic and gender populations.
Areas of NIAAA HIV-related research interest include:
* Epidemiological aspects of alcoholism and HIV
infection and AIDS, including: prevalence of alcohol
abuse among groups at high risk for HIV infection
and AIDS; drinking practices of AIDS- and HIV
infected patients, of persons testing positive for HIV
antibody, and of seronegative persons in high-risk

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