Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for HIV Pediatric, Adolescent and Maternal Clinical Trials

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) intends to publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to solicit applications for research focused on high-priority HIV studies for infants, children, youth and young adults (AYA), and maternal populations. The goal is to establish an HIV clinical trials network that will innovate and conduct rigorously designed, collaborative clinical trials in partnership with site consortia to address high-priority research areas in HIV and related comorbidities and coinfections. Key aspects of this opportunity include: • Research focus on high-priority HIV studies for pediatric and maternal populations • Establishment of an HIV clinical trials network • Collaboration with site consortia to address high-priority research areas • Emphasis on innovative and rigorously designed clinical trials • Encouragement of applications from investigators with expertise in HIV, chronic and infectious diseases, pediatrics, adolescent medicine, laboratory innovation, and cost-effectiveness.