Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program (SATHCAP), July 2009

In 2003, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health invited collaborative research proposals on the sexual transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases among drug-using and non-drug-using populations. The outcome of this effort was the cooperative agreement program called the “Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program” or SATHCAP. SATHCAP was designed for multidisciplinary epidemiologic research on the behavioral, biological, and environmental processes involved in the sexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections/diseases (STD) among drug users and to non-drug-using populations.