COVID-19 and HIV Resources

Updated June 22, 2020

This page provides a wide range of resources surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Check back often as it will be updated regularly.

Please contact Dini Harsono (dini.harsono@yale.edu) for questions and comments.

Research Funding

• Funding list collated by CIRA: COVID-19 administrative supplements, competitive revisions, and other opportunities (updated June 22, 2020).
• NIH COVID-19 funding page: get the latest information on research, grants, and funding.

Call for Papers

• AIDS and Behavior: Notes from the Field. The journal also has a Facebook group that provides a forum for researchers to discuss issues and share resources related to conducting social and behavioral HIV research during the pandemic.
• Journal of the International AIDS Society
• American Psychologist (submission deadline: August 31, 2020).
• Journal of Addiction Medicine
• Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD): Addressing Health Disparities and Improving Population Health in Diverse Communities and Settings (submission deadline: December 31, 2020).

Research Tools and Guidance

• NIH Repository of COVID-19 Research Tools: compiled by NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and Public Health Emergency and Disaster Research Response (DR2).
• PhenX Toolkit COVID-19 Protocols: categorizes COVID-19 instruments in the DR2 collection into specific topic areas for improved ease of use and provides recommended standard data collection protocols for conducting biomedical research.
• CDC COVID-19 Community Survey Question Bank: potential questions for community surveys offered by the CDC to interested researchers.
• The Pandemic Stress Index (PSI): a 3-item measure of behavior changes and stress that individuals may have experienced during COVID-19 pandemic (published article: Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on Latino Sexual Minority Men in a US HIV Hot Spot).
• COVID-19 Interview Items for Vulnerable Populations: compiled by the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research, updated April 27, 2020.
• The Chicago COVID-19 Comorbidities (C3) Survey: a telephone survey linked to 3 NIH-funded active clinical trials and 1 cohort study (published article on Wave 1 of the study: Awareness, Attitudes, and Actions Related to COVID-19 Among Adults With Chronic Conditions at the Onset of the U.S. Outbreak: A Cross-sectional Survey).
• WHO Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) Action Plan Guidance COVID-19 Preparedness and Response: This guidance includes a rapid quantitative assessment tool to develop, implement and monitor an effective action plan for communicating effectively with the public, communities, local partners and other stakeholders in response to COVID-19.
• WHO Survey Tool and Guidance: Rapid, simple, flexible behavioural insights on COVID-19: This document provides guidance to Member States in the WHO European Region that wish to conduct behavioural insights studies related to COVID-19.
• Ethics Resources for Conducting Research in Public Health Emergencies: The Hastings Center has assembled ethics resources that address ethical and evidentiary issues being raised about conducting human vaccine and treatment trials and other studies during public health emergencies.
• North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD): resources including a timeline of COVID-19 in the US and Canada, links to core data elements needed for COVID-19 research, and surveys used by NA-ACCORD cohorts to capture the impact of COVID-19.
• Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA): a compilation of COVID-19 clinical trial and research recommendations including key research questions for federal agencies and investigators.

Research Articles (CIRA affiliates in italics)

• Marhefka S, Lockhart E, Turner D. Achieve Research Continuity During Social Distancing by Rapidly Implementing Individual and Group Videoconferencing with Participants: Key Considerations, Best Practices, and Protocols [published online ahead of print, 2020 Apr 2]. AIDS Behav. 2020;1‐7. doi:10.1007/s10461-020-02837-x
• Shoptaw S, Goodman-Meza D, Landovitz RJ. Collective Call to Action for HIV/AIDS Community-Based Collaborative Science in the Era of COVID-19 [published online ahead of print, 2020 Apr 16]. AIDS Behav. 2020;1‐4. doi:10.1007/s10461-020-02860-y
• Saberi P. Research in the Time of Coronavirus: Continuing Ongoing Studies in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic [published online ahead of print, 2020 Apr 18]. AIDS Behav. 2020;1‐4. doi:10.1007/s10461-020-02868-4
• Opara I, Chandler CJ, Alcena-Stiner DC, Nnawulezi NA, Kershaw TS. When Pandemics Call: Community-Based Research Considerations for HIV Scholars [published online ahead of print, 2020 Apr 24]. AIDS Behav. 2020;1‐3. doi:10.1007/s10461-020-02878-2
• Sun S, Hou J, Chen Y, Lu Y, Brown L, Operario D. Challenges to HIV Care and Psychological Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among People Living with HIV in China [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 7]. AIDS Behav. 2020;1‐2. doi:10.1007/s10461-020-02903-4
• Edelman EJ, Aoun-Barakat L, Villanueva M, Friedland G. Confronting Another Pandemic: Lessons from HIV can Inform Our COVID-19 Response [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 12]. AIDS Behav. 2020;1‐3. doi:10.1007/s10461-020-02908-z
• Poteat T, Millett G, Nelson LE, Beyrer C. Understanding COVID-19 Risks and Vulnerabilities among Black Communities in America: The Lethal Force of Syndemics [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 14]. Ann Epidemiol. 2020;10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.05.004. doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.05.004
• Rosenberg A, Keene DE, Schlesinger P, Groves AK, Blankenship KM. COVID-19 and Hidden Housing Vulnerabilities: Implications for Health Equity, New Haven, Connecticut [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 24]. AIDS Behav. 2020;1‐2. doi:10.1007/s10461-020-02921-2

Databases of COVID-19 Research Articles

• COVID-19 Research Articles Downloadable Database: The Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library is systematically searching the literature and compiling a downloadable database of research articles and grey literature on COVID-19 for researchers.
• NIH Office of Portfolio Analysis COVID-19 Portfolio: NIH’s comprehensive, expert-curated source for publications related to COVID-19.
• CORD-19: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset: The Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for AI has partnered with leading research groups to provide CORD-19, a free resource of more than 130,000 scholarly articles about the novel coronavirus for use by the global research community.
• LitCovid: a database compiled by the National Library of Medicine from COVID-19 articles in PubMed.
• WHO Global Research on Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): a database of research articles compiled daily by WHO.

COVID-19 and HIV Resources

• CDC: resources for people at risk for or with HIV, clinicians, and public health partners.
• The Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC): resources and information on the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the intersection with the HIV pandemic.
• UNAIDS: resources published by UNAIDS (brochure, infographic, report).
• International AIDS Society (IAS): Q&A, stories from the frontline, and webinar series.
• Association of Nurses in AIDS Care’s COVID-19 page: archived weekly updates and COVID-19 and HIV webinars.
• New England AIDS Education and Training Center: resources for people with HIV and providers, and links to New England COVID-19 state government pages and national and international agencies and organizations.
• Fenway Health: a policy brief published in March 2020 that outlines the ways in which people living with HIV and LGBTQIA+ people are likely to be affected by COVID-19 and the factors that may put them at elevated risk for infection.
• Connecticut HIV Planning Consortium (CHPC) June 2020 newsletter: this special edition newsletter, published in English and Spanish, is devoted to sharing resources, information, and perspectives related to HIV care and prevention and COVID-19.
• National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO): COVID-19 updates and information collated part of The Essential Elements of Local Public Health with some topics related to HIV.
• Mental Health Technology Transfer Center: COVID-19 and mental health resources for diverse populations and providers who support them.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): training and technical assistance (TTA) on matters related to the mental and substance use disorder field and COVID-19 (updated weekly).
• FHI 360: this document outlines strategic considerations to support key populations (KP)-focused HIV programs to mitigate the impact of COVID-19. Developed for KP-focused HIV programs implemented or supported by FHI 360 in the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa, it may be used and adapted more broadly.
• COVID-19 and People Living with HIV – FAQ: this document was developed and regularly updated by a group of organizations that came together to develop a COVID-19 resource for people living with HIV based on the best information available.

COVID-19 Regional and National Data

• COVID-19 Data from the National Center for Health Statistics: provides the most recent data available on deaths, mental health, and access to health care from the vital statistics system and through a partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau.
• Coronavirus Resource Center's Maps & Trends: Johns Hopkins experts are aggregating data from multiple credible sources to track the spread of COVID-19 globally. Map data is updated in near real-time throughout the day.
• Connecticut COVID-19 Response: provides Connecticut-focused resources including data tracker, contact tracing, testing site locations, and guidance for reopening.

Yale Resources

• Yale Research, Clinical & Data Driven Responses to COVID-19: This website seeks to facilitate collaboration at Yale and across the world by transparently communicating research progress and patient care initiatives.
• Yale Program in Addiction Medicine Coronavirus (COVID-19) Guidance Documents:
• COVID-19 Guidance for Clinicians
• COVID-19 Guidance for Patients Engaged in Substance Use Treatment
• COVID-19 Guidance for Youth Engaged in Substance Use Treatment
• COVID-19 Guidance for People Who Use Substances
• COVID-19 Guidance for Hospital-Based Addiction Treatment
• The Yale COVID HASTE Data Science: brings together Yale researchers from numerous disciplines to present COVID-19-related research in workshop series and foster new connections.
• COVID-19 Right Now!: a weekly series of live discussions with Yale faculty and alumni that cover the most pressing, "of the moment" matters related to COVID-19. The broadcast will air live, every Thursday on the Yale School of Public Health Facebook page. Check the page as times may vary.