CORE--INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FACILITY

全世界每天有1200多名儿童死于艾滋病毒感染及其并发症。在若干地理区域，包括东欧、东南亚以及东亚和太平洋地区，报告的病例数大幅增加。在一项独特的合作中，贝勒医学院与几个罗马尼亚医疗和科学机构合作，制定了一个儿童艾滋病毒保健专业教育和临床研究方案。拟议的国际研究核心的目的是通过在罗马尼亚建立实验室基础设施，以促进艾滋病毒临床和基础研究项目的合作，扩大现有方案的范围，扩大和加强其活动。国际研究核心的具体目标如下：(1)在HW合作研究的发展、实施和执行方面，作为贝勒医学院科学家与罗马尼亚临床医生和科学家之间的联络人；(2)提供实验室基础设施支持，包括标本采购、加工、储存和运输；(3)补充根据现有的罗马尼亚-美国儿童艾滋病教育和临床研究方案以及计划中的艾滋病国际培训和研究方案开展的罗马尼亚卫生专业和科学教育活动；将在布加勒斯特Stefan S. Nicolau病毒学研究所建立一个设施，用于处理和储存对CFAR研究活动很重要的标本。研究所工作人员将协助查明罗马尼亚的合作者，并将便利j . s .之间的通讯。罗马尼亚调查人员。该研究所将作为罗马尼亚和美国合作的中心。卫生保健研究和保健专业教育活动。

Worldwide, over 1200 children die each day from HIV infection and its complications. Large increases in case numbers are being reported in several geographic regions, including Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and East Asia and the Pacific. In a unique collaboration, Baylor College of Medicine, in cooperation with several Romanian medical and scientific institutions, has established a program for pediatric HIV health-care professional education and clinical research. The purposes of the proposed International Research Core are to broaden the scope and expand and enhance the activities of the existing prograrn by establishing laboratory infrastructure in Romania to facilitate collaborative HIV clinical and basic research projects. The specific aims of the International Research Core are as follows: (1) to serve as a liaison between scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and Romanian clinicians and scientists in the development, implementation, and execution of HW collaborative research; (2) to provide laboratory mfrastructure support Ior specimen procurement, processing, storage, and shipping; and (3) to complement Romanian health professional and scientific educational activities conducted under the existing Rornanian-American Pediatric AIDS Education and Clinical Research Program and the planned AIDS International Training and Research Prograi:n. A facility will be established at the Stefan S. Nicolau Institute of Virology in Bucharest for the processing and storage of specimens important for CFAR research activities. Institute staff will assist in the identification of Romanian collaborators and will facilitate communication between1J.S. and Romanian investigators. The Institute will serve as the focal point for collaborative Romanian-U.S. HW research and health-care professional educational activities.