The NIMH Center for Mental Health Research on AIDS supports research on the risk of HIV infection or the sequelae of HIV infection among the severely mentally ill persons.
Research is encouraged within and across the priority research areas listed below.
Epidemiology of sexual and drug-use behaviors and other relevant risk behavior patterns among severely mentally ill persons. Risk reduction and transmission prevention interventions of HIV infection among severely mentally ill persons. Treatment of severely mentally ill persons infected with HIV and the medical and neuropsychiatric manifestations of HIV infection among severely mentally ill persons. Mental health service needs and assessment of the most effective services for its delivery and financing to HIV-infected persons with severe mental illness. For further information on the HIV and AIDS among the Severely Mentally Ill Program, please call or send e-mail to Dr. David M. Stoff .