Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Amount

$1,278,043.00

Award Date

7/16/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

PREVENTING DRUG ABUSE AND HIV HISPANIC FIRST OFFENDORS - Hispanic youth in the juvenile justice system are at increased risk of HIV infection and of using illicit drugs. The proposed study's overarching goal is to reduce the ethnic disparities in illicit