Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR)

The Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR) program at the National Institutes of Health provides administrative and shared research support to synergistically enhance and coordinate high quality AIDS research projects. CFARs accomplish this through core facilities that provide expertise, resources, and services not otherwise readily obtained through more traditional funding mechanisms.

The Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) initiative was launched in 2019 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the goal to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. within 10 years. To achieve this goal and address the ongoing public health crisis of HIV, EHE will leverage the powerful data and tools now available to reduce new HIV infections in the United States by 75 percent in five years and by 90 percent by 2030. The Centers for AIDS Research, along with the National Institute of Mental Health's AIDS Research Centers, will inform HHS partners in this initiative on best practices, based on state-of-the-art biomedical research findings, and by collecting and disseminating data on the effectiveness of approaches used in this initiative.

Between 2019-2023, NIH announced supplemental awards to the CFARs and ARCs to support research to enhance the implementation science knowledge base needed for EHE. These projects require partnerships between academic researchers and community partners to determine how best to get effective prevention and treatment tools to the people who need it. Additionally, the NIH is supporting a coordinating and data management center, the Implementation Science Coordination Initiative (ISCI), and multiple implementation research consultative hubs across the U.S. to develop generalizable knowledge from local knowledge by encouraging the use of shared implementation frameworks and harmonized measures, synthesizing data across projects, and encouraging cross-project collaboration. 

Main Areas of Focus

Oversight

The CFAR Program is administratively managed by the CFAR team within the Basic Science Program within the Division of AIDS at NIAID and it is scientifically managed by the NIH CFAR Steering Committee, comprised of representatives from the co-funding institutes and centers as well FIC and the Office of AIDS Research.

About CFAR

This program was originally begun by the NIAID Division of AIDS in 1988 and is co-funded by eleven NIH Institutes.


About CFAR

Locations

There are 19 Centers for AIDS Research (CFARs) located at academic and research institutions throughout the United States.


CFAR sites

Resources

Limited resources may be available to outside researchers depending upon individual CFAR policies and availability.  


Contact CFARs about resources

Collaborations

One of the missions of the CFAR Program is to foster CFAR–CFAR collaborations. Over the past few years, several inter-CFAR collaborations have been formed by the CFARs.


Our collaborations

Events

CFAR holds an annual meeting.

Contact Information

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