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SHARE (Substance Use & HIV Action for Reentry & Engagement) refers to Atlanta's regional HIV/SUD research hub hosted in collaboration between Emory University and Morehouse School of Medicine. As part of the Collaborative Network to end the HIV Epidemic and Address Addiction in the Criminal Justice System (CONNECT), SHARE will be conducting a stepped-wedge trial of SUCCESS-E case management. SUCCESS-E is a strength-based care management program that seeks to improve HIV/PrEP care and SUD services usage among persons living with HIV or persons at high risk of developing HIV. Specifically, SHARE aims to assess the effectiveness and cost of this intervention for a cohort of incarcerated individuals leaving jail, regardless of current HIV status. If deemed effective, the team will develop and distribute a comprehensive toolkit. Follow this link to learn more about SHARE and its launch in February 2025.
Funding: NIH
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Past Projects
STORC is a project that seeks to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of using tongue swabs to diagnose TB in prisons of a high-burden, lower-income country. The data collected from this research will help develop alternative diagnostic tools which may be useful when adequate sputum samples are not available.
Funding: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
CIPMATOD is designed to increase early case detection of TB and ensure timely and complete treatment while maintaining high TB cure rates in prisons. Additionally, the project seeks to improve identification and linkage to care and service provision for comorbidities or conditions other than TB, improving TB detection/treatment outcomes and the expansion of TB preventative treatment supported by video therapy technology. CHIP will play a pivotal role in the monitoring and evaluation of this demonstration.
Funding: TB Reach/UNOPS, Implementation Partner: Health Through Walls
SWANSS is designed to mitigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on those who live and work in carceral environments. Through it, we are studying the correlation of wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) and individual self-collected nasal swabbing for SARS-CoV-2 in the population of Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, GA.
Funding: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
CRAINES is a cooperative agreement in which we are studying the implementation and maintenance of WBS in four jails around the US, including Fulton County Jail. Persons with lived experience of incarceration are valued members of the implementation teams.
Funding: NIH
MALLARDS seeks to enhance a previously developed strength-based case management intervention by adding peer navigation and delivering the intervention package in an HIV status-neutral fashion to persons returning to the Atlanta community after a recent stay in jail. After release, both persons with HIV and at high risk of seroconversion will be enrolled in a community-based study about their transition experience. The intervention focuses on the treatment and prevention pillars of the Ending the HIV Epidemic plan, by keeping people living with HIV virally suppressed and those at risk for HIV seroconversion on preventive therapy.
Funding: NIH/CFAR supplement
Mpox is a project that arose during the Monkeypox (Mpox) outbreak which sought to determine jail wide viral loads of Mpox before extending to other pathogens via wastewater surveillance. The Mpox project seeks to do this by gaining opinions of former residents and jail workers. The primary objective of the study is to conduct interviews with former residents, to determine acceptability of testing, and messaging for future testing to intensify mitigation efforts. Interviews with people working in the jail will add their perspectives on these issues. This information will be important as we conduct investigations into future outbreaks.
Funding: SOM Rapid Synergy