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UTEP to Work on Solutions to Reduce Drug Use-Related HIV in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Border Region

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. Sexual and Reproductive Health
  2. infectious disease prevention
  3. behavioral health intervention development
  4. border communities
  5. Health Disparities

Featured Researcher(s):

Lechuga, Julia
College: Health Sciences
Department: Public Health Sciences
UTEP to Work on Solutions to Reduce Drug Use-Related HIV in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Border Region
Date: December 17, 2021



The University of Texas at El Paso will develop a sustainable public health intervention to suppress human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in people who use drugs in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border region to help slow the spread of HIV. The initiative will be funded by a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).


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