Research
Molecular Epidemiology for HIV Prevention for Drug Users and Other Risk Groups
Agency: NIH/NIDA
Agency Award Number: DP1DA034978
The goal of this project is to integrate subject data from local research, clinical and public health entities that are screening for and treating HIV infected individual. Data from these sources will be obtained in a de‐identified manner, parsed and then organized into a HIPAA compliant database containing socio‐demographic, geographic and phylogenetic information for each subject. The database will be set up to update itself in real‐time as new HIV infections are identified in our catchment area. In addition, we will use the viral sequence data to map out the phylogenetic network structure of our local epidemic.