Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative

描述（由申请人提供）：这是贝勒医学院根据PA-05-140艾滋病国际培训与研究计划（AITRP）重新竞争的研究培训申请。2000年，贝勒医学院的贝勒国际儿童艾滋病倡议首次获得了美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）福格蒂国际中心的AITRP资助。在短短五年的时间里，贝勒的AITRP在创建世界上最大的以大学为基础的项目方面发挥了关键的催化作用，该项目致力于全球儿科和家庭艾滋病毒/艾滋病的护理和治疗、卫生专业培训和临床研究。贝勒国际儿童艾滋病倡议在过去五年中从美国国立卫生研究院、疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）以及众多私人和公司基金会获得了6200多万美元的资助，与东道国政府合作，在非洲、东欧和亚洲资源贫乏的地区建立了一个由9个卓越儿童临床中心组成的网络。今天，它正处于为全球感染艾滋病毒的儿童和家庭的护理和治疗带来变革的风口浪尖。贝勒最近成立了一个儿童艾滋病队，在今后五年内为其非洲中心安排多达250名美国儿科医生和传染病专家，以大大扩大儿童艾滋病毒/艾滋病护理和治疗以及卫生专业培训的能力。贝勒大学的AITRP在建立研究能力方面发挥着绝对重要的作用，这将有助于这些中心的长期维持。2004年毕业于贝勒AITRP的Nicoleta Vaseliu博士已经在罗马尼亚康斯坦察领导其旗舰罗马尼亚-美国儿童中心。目前有三名非洲援助技术援助方案的学员计划于2006年获得公共卫生学科的博士学位，他们将为整个儿童临床卓越中心网络提供研究和数据库设计、流行病学和统计以及预防研究方面的资源。没有其他资金来源支持这种研究能力的发展。今后五年，利用儿童卓越临床中心网络、儿童艾滋病服务队和AITRP的资源，扩大对数十万感染艾滋病毒的儿童的预防、护理和治疗的规模，并向他们提供信息，这将影响到全球数百万年轻的生命。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is the Baylor College of Medicine's re-competing research training application for funding under PA-05-140, AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP). The Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Baylor College of Medicine first received funding from the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for an AITRP in 2000. In five short years, Baylor's AITRP has had a key catalytic role in the creation of what has become the world's largest university-based program dedicated to global pediatric and family HIV/AIDS care and treatment, health professional training and clinical research. The recipient over the past five years of more than $62 million in grants from the NIH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and numerous private and corporate foundations, the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, in partnership with host governments, has established a network of nine Children's Clinical Centers of Excellence in resource-poor settings in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, and today it is on the cusp of producing transformational change in the care and treatment of HIV-infected children and families globally. Baylor recently created a Pediatric AIDS Corps to place up to 250 American pediatricians and infectious disease specialists in its African centers over the next five years to vastly expand capacity for pediatric HIV/AIDS care and treatment and health professional training. Baylor's AITRP serves an absolutely essential role in building the research capacity that will help to sustain these centers over time. Already, a 2004 graduate of Baylor's AITRP, Dr. Nicoleta Vaseliu, directs its flagship Romanian-American Children's Center in Constanta, Romania. Three current African AITRP trainees, all scheduled to earn doctorates in public health disciplines in 2006, will serve as resources in research and database design, epidemiology and statistics and prevention research to the entire Children's Clinical Centers of Excellence Network. No other funding source supports this kind of research capacity development. The challenge and opportunity exist over the next five years to utilize the resources of the Children's Clinical Centers of Excellence Network, the Pediatric AIDS Corps and the AITRP to scale up and inform the prevention, care and treatment of hundreds of thousands of HIV- infected children, impacting millions of young lives across the globe.