Strategic Training Partnership to End AIDS in Georgia

格鲁吉亚非政府组织健康研究和行动伙伴关系 提议与第比利斯国立大学(TSU)合作 与纽约州立大学唐州医学中心和纽约州立大学 纽约奥尔巴尼公共卫生学院(UAlbany SPH)和其他纽约州 机构在进行执行科学研究方面的能力建设将解决 格鲁吉亚在艾滋病毒预防和护理方面的差距。这一努力建立在长期和富有成效的基础上 格鲁吉亚大学和公共卫生机构协会、纽约州立大学--民主联盟和 UAlbany SPH，在Fogarty资助的纽约州国际培训框架内 和研究计划(NYS-ITRP)培训赠款，自1996年以来一直活跃在佐治亚州。 目标是发展足够的能力，以更好地了解艾滋病毒的关键障碍 在关键人群中进行检测/诊断和联系护理，并准备一个证据基础 改善国家应对艾滋病毒的工作。建议的目标包括：1)提供博士学位 向10名格鲁吉亚人提供公共卫生和执行科学培训，他们将接受 美国和格鲁吉亚；2)。为30名学员提供与科学有关的短期培训 每年进行实施研究；3)通过博士课程建设台大的机构能力 改进和师资培训。随着这些干预措施的进展，有可能 极大地降低了前苏联国家的艾滋病毒发病率，这是为数不多的 世界上艾滋病毒感染率上升的地区。建议的结构、主题和重点如下 根据在Fogarty框架内进行的严格需求评估选择 支持规划拨款。这些主题与联合国艾滋病规划署的主要建议完全一致 政策制定者关于结束全球艾滋病流行所需的投资，并将建立在 一项已经资助的疾病预防控制中心在佐治亚州消除丙型肝炎的倡议。该计划提出了 科学主题也完全符合纽约州在《结束 爱滋病流行。“这种优先事项的协调，以及艾滋病毒的潜在相似性 乔治亚共和国和纽约州的流行病创造了一个独特的机会 将有意义的体验式学习内容作为拟议培训的一部分 程序。这解决了NIH战略中的一个高度优先的主题，即减少 通过实施改善艾滋病毒检测和提供预防服务的战略，实现艾滋病毒/艾滋病。

The Georgian nongovernmental organization Partnership for Research and Action for Health proposed to partner with the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), in collaboration with the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center and the State University of New York Albany School of Public Health (UAlbany SPH) along with other New York State institutions to build capacity in conducting implementation science research that will address gaps in HIV prevention and care in Georgia. This effort builds on the long and productive association between Georgian universities and public health institutions, SUNY-DMC and UAlbany SPH, within the framework of the Fogarty funded New York State International Training and Research Program (NYS-ITRP) training grant that has been active in Georgia since 1996. The goal is to develop adequate capacity to better understand key barriers to HIV testing/diagnosis and linkage to care among key populations and to prepare an evidence base to improve the national response to HIV. Proposed objectives includes:1) Provide doctoral training in public health and implementation science to 10 Georgians, who will be trained in the US and in Georgia; 2). Provide short-term training to 30 trainees in sciences related to implementation research annually; 3) build institutional capacity at TSU through doctoral course improvement and faculty training. With progress in these interventions, it may be possible to dramatically reduce HIV incidence in a country of the former Soviet Union, one of the few regions in the world with rising HIV rates. The proposed structure, topics, and focus were selected based on a rigorous needs assessment conducted within the framework of a Fogarty supported planning grant. These topics align fully with UNAIDS’s key recommendations to policy makers on the investments needed to end the global AIDS epidemic and will be built on an already funded CDC initiative to eliminate hepatitis C in Georgia. The program’s proposed scientific topics also align fully with the priorities laid out in New York State’s “Plan to End the AIDS Epidemic.” This alignment of priorities, as well as the underlying similarities in the HIV epidemics in the Republic of Georgia and New York State, creates a unique opportunity to incorporate a meaningful experiential learning component as part of the proposed training program. This addresses a high priority topic from the NIH strategy on reducing the incidence of HIV/AIDS by implementing strategies to improve HIV testing and entry into prevention services.