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Long-term immunologic responses to COVID-19 infection and vaccination

Have you been infected with COVID-19? Are you a solid organ transplant recipient? Have you or your child received a COVID-19 vaccine or are planning to receive one? If so, you may be eligible to participate in a research study that will assess your immune response to COVID-19 infection or vaccination over a 5 year period. We are looking for children and adults aged 7-95 years, and plan to collect blood every 2-6 months over the study period. (Compensation provided for the first year).

Age & Gender
  • 7 years ~ 95 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Child and Teen Health
  • Immune System/Infections
  • COVID-19
  • and 2 more
Not currently enrolling

Net-Q: Network Questionnaire of Personal Connections for Minority Men and Transgender Women

The purpose of this research study is to learn about HIV transmission and strategies for prevention. We are looking for people living with or at risk for HIV in the Raleigh area and learning more about the people they know in the community.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • HIV/AIDS
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
Not currently enrolling

A Multidimensional Digital Approach to Address Vaccine Hesitancy and Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among African American Young Adults in the South (Tough Talks COVID)

This project seeks to adapt and test the existing Tough Talks app to address COVID vaccine hesitancy among African American young adults (AA-YA) aged 18-29.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 29 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • Minority Health
  • COVID-19
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
Not currently enrolling

STOMP: Skills TO Manage Pain in people living with HIV

In this study, we want to learn more about a program (STOMP) designed to improve chronic pain in people living with HIV.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Pain
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
Not currently enrolling

Barriers and Facilitators of Syphilis Vaccine Trial Participation

The purpose of this study is to conduct interviews to hear people's thoughts and feedback on various aspects of conducting syphilis vaccine research at UNC-Chapel Hill and to ask them to complete a brief online survey after their interviews. The information that participants provide will help the clinical trial researchers to better understand what concerns people might have about syphilis vaccine research and to design clinical trials that are acceptable to potential vaccine research participants.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Opinions and Perceptions
  • Sexual and/or Reproductive Health
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
Not currently enrolling

COMPARE: Apps to increase HIV testing and PrEP uptake

The purpose of this research study is to learn from YMSM about their perceptions of two phone apps designed to increase HIV testing, PrEP uptake, and other prevention strategies. We also want to learn about whether the apps encourage behavior change, as they are designed to do.

Age & Gender
  • 15 years ~ 29 years
  • Male, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Behavior
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
  • Men's Health
  • and 2 more
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Mechanisms of Natural HIV-1 Resistance

This study allows for the collection of a large volume of stem cells via Leukapheresis from healthy HIV negative donors. These stem cells are then aliquoted and frozen for use by the Garcia Lab in the production of HIV negative (delta 32 negative) humanized mice.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Healthy Volunteer or General Population
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

The GET IT RIgHT Study

The reasons this study is being conducted are: • To see if human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antiretroviral medicines that you are taking continue to work well in transgender women and other individuals identifying as female or transfeminine but with male sex assigned at birth (referred to as transgender women throughout this form) when taken with feminizing hormone therapy (FHT), also known in this study as estradiol; and • To see if estradiol levels in blood vary between boosted and un-boosted HIV medicines when transgender women are taking different doses of FHT.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Focus on recruitment of transgender women
Study Interest
  • HIV/AIDS
  • LGBTQIA+
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

Assessing access to care following prison release - Provider Perspectives

The purpose of this project is to understand, from the perspective of medical providers and community health workers (CHWs), the barriers and facilitators that people released from prison experience in establishing and engaging with health care, and how those barriers and facilitators may be impacted by participation in the FIT and FIT Connect transitional health care programs.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Chronic Conditions
  • Opinions and Perceptions
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
By physician referral or invitation only

FIT patient evaluation

The purpose of this project is to understand, from the perspective of formerly incarcerated individuals, the barriers and facilitators that people released from prison experience in establishing and engaging with health care, and how those barriers and facilitators may be impacted by participation in the FIT and FIT Connect transitional health care programs.

Age & Gender
  • 18 years ~ 99 years
  • Male, Female, Gender Inclusive
Study Interest
  • Chronic Conditions
  • Mental and Emotional Health
  • Opinions and Perceptions
  • Substance Use (tobacco, alcohol, opioids, etc)
Visit Location
100% Remote (online, phone, text)
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