Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

Amount

$744,180.00

Award Date

7/14/2009

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

More than 850,000 Americans are currently living with AIDS and an estimated 40,000 continue to contract HIV each year (CDC, 2004). Minority individuals living in urban and poverty-stricken areas who engage in injection heroin use are particularly at risk