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Brenda Sanchez
Former Developmental Core Manager (2002-2025)
CFAR offered a general Pilot Award program from 1994 to 2017 and funded 82 early stage investigators.
In 2022, CFAR initiated a new program: Pilot Award for Investigators New to HIV.
82 Awards
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Provision of Extended Nevirapine to Breastfeeding Infants to Reduce Postnatal Transmission of HIV in a Resource-limited Setting: Feasibility, Safety and Effectiveness in a Real world Setting
Provision of Extended Nevirapine to Breastfeeding Infants to Reduce Postnatal Transmission of HIV in a Resource-limited Setting: Feasibility, Safety and Effectiveness in a Real world Setting
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In recent years the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in developed countries has declined to less than 1%. This success is due to the implementation of a package of interventions including universal HIV screening in pregnancy, provision of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to HIV-infected pregnant women, antiretroviral (ARV) prophylaxis for the infant during the first 6 weeks of life and avoidance of breastfeeding. In resource-limited countries however, vertical transmission rates can be as high as 35-40% in untreated breastfeeding populations.
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Sex Differences in Patterns of Migration and HIV Risk in Western Kenya
Sex Differences in Patterns of Migration and HIV Risk in Western Kenya
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Research on the role of migration in the spread of HIV/AIDS has almost exclusively focused on male labor migration patterns, finding migration to be a risk factor for men and their non-migrant partners, yet neglecting to measure the HIV risks of migration for women. Moreover, the very manner in which migration is conventionally studied is shaped by the paradigm of male labor migration, and thus fails to capture the complexity of women's mobility in sub-Saharan Africa today.
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Physicians' Attitudes Toward Assisted Suicide in AIDS: a 5-Year Comparison Study
Physicians' Attitudes Toward Assisted Suicide in AIDS: a 5-Year Comparison Study
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Effect of Malaria Chemoprevention on Naturally Acquired T-Cell Mediated Immunity to Malaria
Effect of Malaria Chemoprevention on Naturally Acquired T-Cell Mediated Immunity to Malaria
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Malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children in Uganda. The clinical presentation of malaria is modulated by the natural development of acquired immunity, which develops slowly, wanes rapidly, and is poorly understood. A more thorough understanding of natural immunity to malaria and its development during early childhood is needed to inform development of an effective vaccine.
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Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy and Lymphoid Irradiation, with Thymic Shielding, in Subjects with HIV Disease
Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy and Lymphoid Irradiation, with Thymic Shielding, in Subjects with HIV Disease
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Cohort Study: Study on the Consequences of the Protease-Inhibitor Era (SCOPE)
Cohort Study: Study on the Consequences of the Protease-Inhibitor Era (SCOPE)
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Translating Results from an RCT Methods Study to Improve the Accuracy of Evaluations of HIV Interventions
Translating Results from an RCT Methods Study to Improve the Accuracy of Evaluations of HIV Interventions
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Methods to improve accuracy in self-reported sexual behavior are critical in reducing errors that impede accurate assessment of intervention outcomes and prevalence estimates of HIV-related risk. Research findings to date provide abundant empirical evidence that reliability and validity of self-reported sexual behavior is a major problem. Scientific models of the survey question-answer process specify question comprehension as a necessary precursor to enhancing data quality.
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The REAP Study: Returning Estimates of Ancestry to Participants
The REAP Study: Returning Estimates of Ancestry to Participants
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The Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) is a longitudinal cohort study of women with HIV, and a risk-set match control group; the women enrolled are primarily African American and Latina, with a small number of Asian and Caucasian non-Hispanic women. In Fall of 2011, the WIHS National Community Advisory Board (NCAB) requested to receive their individual estimates of ancestry admixture that are being used as covariates in genomic studies.
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Novel Computational Biology Methods for the Evaluation of Multi-Level/Combination Community HIV Prevention Interventions
Novel Computational Biology Methods for the Evaluation of Multi-Level/Combination Community HIV Prevention Interventions
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The increasing call for community-level evaluation of "combination HIV prevention" (packages of our best evidence-based HIV prevention interventions) has brought to the forefront the need to develop novel methods of both evaluating these combinations of interventions in aggregate and estimating the relative contributions of individual components of the combined intervention. However, such comprehensive methods do not exist.
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The REAP Study: Returning Estimates of Ancestry to Participants
The REAP Study: Returning Estimates of Ancestry to Participants
Abstract
The Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) is a longitudinal cohort study of women with HIV, and a risk-set match control group; the women enrolled are primarily African American and Latina, with a small number of Asian and Caucasian non-Hispanic women. In Fall of 2011, the WIHS National Community Advisory Board (NCAB) requested to receive their individual estimates of ancestry admixture that are being used as covariates in genomic studies.