UCLA Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (CHPDP)
Vine Street Clinic
Vine Street ClinicClinical Research Site
910 North Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90038 (323) 461-3106
This research clinic, located near Hollywood and West Hollywood, hosts behavioral surveillance, medications development, and microbicides development studies. Staff on site include a project management team, research nurse, certified phlebotomists and HIV counseling and testing staff. The clinic includes a waiting room, three multi-use project rooms, two counseling rooms, a laboratory with adjoining restroom, and a staff kitchen. Approximately 40 research participants per week are seen at this site, and complete study procedures. HIV, STD, and drug use testing and screening are typically conducted as well as neurocognitive and behavioral measures.
This project is funded through the NIDA Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program (SATH-CAP, U01DA17394, PI: Shoptaw). SATH-CAP, composed of four research centers and a coordinating center, focuses on the sexual acquisition and transmission of HIV and other STIs within drug-using networks and from drug users to non-drug users. The research centers include Yale University in Connecticut, St. Petersburg in Russia, Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina (NC), University of Illinois in Chicago, and the University California in Los Angeles. The RAND Corporation in California serves as the scientific and logistical coordinating center.
