Partnerships for HIV/AIDS Research in KwaZulu Natal

夸祖鲁纳塔尔省艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究伙伴关系

• 批准号: 6587239
• 负责人: ELEANOR M PRESTON-WHYTE
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-27 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6587239
• 关键词: AIDS education /prevention; Africa; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cooperative study; education evaluation /planning; family structure /dynamics; health science research support; household; human subject; interdisciplinary collaboration; medically underserved population; social support network; socioenvironment; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aims of the proposed project are to facilitate and foster social science research and training in the field of HIV/AIDS, and promote the development of sustained and mutually informative multidisciplinary interaction between the social and bio-medical scientists in seeking solutions to the epidemic in African populations. The setting of the proposed program will be the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, although the research results will have resonance for other African situations where HIV constitutes a major threat to life and well being. These objectives will be achieved by a combined, iterative and mutually reinforcing training and research program in the specific field of ethnographic research methods tailored to the needs of local HIV/AIDS researchers, activists and policy makers. An interdisciplinary team of social, behavioral and bio-medical researchers from the Center for HIV Networking (HIVAN) at the University of Natal in South Africa and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City, will be involved in both components of the project, providing social science training annually to between 16-24 students, and conducting foundational studies in one urban and one rural location in KwaZulu-Natal. With classroom-based instruction in social sciences theory and methods followed by mentored experiential training in the field, trainees will be able to contribute biosocial perspective on HIV/AIDS either as full-blown researchers or as professionals or community workers. The experiential training will occur in the context of multi-year extended case studies of the HIV-related challenges face by women and children in three domains of their lives: clinic settings, where women and children receive medical care; families and households, where the epidemic is faced on a day-to-day bases as they face the reactions of family members to their HIV status, and, in the wider community, which may provide critical support, such as care for women when ailing, and for orphaned children. The studies are prompted by the milestone event of the introduction of antiretroviral therapy to prevent both mother-to-child transmission of HIV and to sustain the health of the poor women. When implemented, the ethnographic research and the training program will make up a seamless whole, with the ethnographic project acting as a teaching reference point and learning site for the training program, and the training program providing capacity for the ethnographic project and its future extension.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议项目的目的是促进和促进艾滋病毒/艾滋病领域的社会科学研究和培训，并促进社会和生物医学科学家之间的持续和相互信息的多学科互动的发展，以寻求解决非洲人口中的流行病。拟议方案的背景将是南非的夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省，尽管研究结果将对艾滋病毒构成生命和福祉重大威胁的其他非洲情况产生共鸣。这些目标将通过在人种学研究方法这一具体领域开展一项综合、反复和相互加强的培训和研究方案来实现，该方案是根据当地艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究人员、活动家和决策者的需要量身定制的。来自南非纳塔尔大学艾滋病毒网络中心和纽约市哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院的社会、行为和生物医学研究人员组成的跨学科小组将参与该项目的两个组成部分，每年为16至24名学生提供社会科学培训，并在夸祖鲁-纳塔尔的一个城市和一个农村地区进行基础研究。通过社会科学理论和方法的课堂教学，然后在该领域进行指导性的经验培训，学员将能够作为全面的研究人员或专业人员或社区工作者，对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的生物社会观点作出贡献。将在对妇女和儿童在其生活的三个领域面临的与艾滋病毒有关的挑战进行多年期长期个案研究的背景下进行体验式培训：诊所环境，妇女和儿童在那里接受医疗护理;家庭和住户，因为他们每天都要面对家庭成员对其艾滋病毒状况的反应，而在更广泛的社区，这可能会提供关键的支持，如照顾生病的妇女和孤儿。这些研究是由于采用抗逆转录病毒疗法以防止母婴传播艾滋病毒和维持贫穷妇女健康这一里程碑事件而开展的。实施后，民族志研究和培训方案将构成一个无缝的整体，民族志项目作为教学参考点和培训方案的学习场所，培训方案为民族志项目及其未来的扩展提供能力。