AIDS CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT

梅哈里医学院和范德比尔特大学学院的教员 医学部在田纳西州纳什维尔联合提议成立一个少数民族ACTU。 历史悠久的黑人医疗保健职业之间的这种合作关系 学校和成熟的以研究为导向的大多数学校提供 一个独特的环境，在其中探索我们的民族问题 艾滋病临床试验中缺乏少数人参与。 拟议的ACTU计划将探索实现以下目标的新概念 艾滋病临床试验。它的目标将是发现 改善少数群体、妇女和妇女的招聘、保留和遵守情况 滥用药物的艾滋病患者。目标少数族裔将是黑人。这个 目标女性尤其会涉及生育。靶向药物 滥用者将包括滥用非注射药物和注射药物的患者 毒品。该计划的独特之处在于， 少数人和多数人机构，将被最充分地利用 可能的程度。通过AMHPS艾滋病联盟，选定的技术 将在其他历史上属于黑人的机构进行进一步测试。这个 目标将是设计和测试在以下情况下有效的技术 输出到不具有这种少数从属关系的Actus，并输出到 没有ACTU的临床站点。

The faculties of Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine jointly propose a Minority ACTU in Nashville, Tennessee. this partnership between a historically black health care professions school and a well established research oriented majority school offers a unique environment in which to explore our national problem with the lack of minority participation in the AIDS clinical trials. The proposed ACTU program will explore a new concept for accomplishing AIDS clinical trials. It will be targeted to discovering techniques for improving recruitment, retention, and compliance of minorities, women and drug abusing AIDS patients. The targeted minority will be Black. The targeted women will especially involve child bearing. The targeted drug abusers will include patients who abuse non-injected as well as injected drugs. The unique feature of the program, the partnership between a minority and a majority institution, will be exploited to the fullest possible extent. Through the AMHPS AIDS Consortium, selected techniques will be further tested in other historically Black institutions. The objective will be to devise and test techniques that will work when exported to ACTUs that do not have such a minority affiliation, and to clinical sites that do not have an ACTU.