Training in HIV Prevention & Care Research in South Afr*

描述（由申请人提供）：南非共和国目前有 艾滋病毒感染人数（470万）比世界上任何国家都多， 更多训练有素的科学家进行所需的研究， 它对这一流行病的反应。我们建议建立一个培训计划， 比勒陀利亚大学（UP）是世界上最大的住宿大学。 国家，这将促进艾滋病毒预防和 在乎该计划将由耶鲁大学中心承担， 艾滋病跨学科研究（CIRA）和UP研究中心 艾滋病（加空局）。它将为8名UP博士后提供长期培训 学生在心理学，人类学，医学和法律，并支持他们作为 该领域的研究科学家;通过 在UP和耶鲁大学的中期培训，UP的核心教师群体， 将能够概念化和进行艾滋病毒预防和护理研究， 谁将帮助指导研究员参加耶鲁大学的长期培训; 在重要的具体领域举办五个短期培训班， 在不同学科的UP研究人员。再入学赠款将提供给 所有耶鲁大学的长期和中期实习生。这些活动 学员将与博士后研究员紧密结合 通过CIRA支持？由NIMH支持的跨学科艾滋病毒预防 培训计划（家长补助金）和福格蒂国际中心支持 艾滋病国际培训和研究方案。学员将 在训练期间受到仔细监测，并在他们离开后进行跟踪， 评估该计划在增强艾滋病毒预防专业知识方面的成功， 在UP进行研究。该计划得到了校长的全力支持。 比勒陀利亚大学和南非共和国总统办公室 非洲

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Republic of South Africa currently has more HIV infections (4.7 million) than any country in the world, and is in need of more well-trained scientists to undertake the research required to maximize its response to the epidemic. We propose to establish a training program with the University of Pretoria (UP), the largest residential University in the country, which will foster multidisciplinary research in HIV prevention and care. The program will be undertaken by the Yale University Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) and the UP Centre for the Study of AIDS (CSA). It will provide long-term training for eight UP post-doctoral students in psychology, anthropology, medicine, and law and sustain them as research scientists in the field; identify and develop, through intermediate-term training at UP and Yale, a core group of faculty at UP who will be able to conceptualize and conduct HIV prevention and care research, and who will help mentor fellows participating in long-term training at Yale; and undertake five short-term training courses in specific areas of importance to researchers at UP in various disciplines. Re-entry grants will be provided to all UP long- and intermediate-term trainees at Yale. The activities of these trainees will be closely integrated with those of post-doctoral fellows supported through CIRA?s NIMH-supported Interdisciplinary HIV Prevention Training Program (the parent grant) and Fogarty International Center-supported AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP). Trainees will be carefully monitored during their training and tracked after they leave to assess the success of the program in enhancing expertise in HIV prevention and care research at UP. The proposed program has the full support of the Rector of the University of Pretoria and the Office of the Presidency, Republic of South Africa.