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: 6942561
• 负责人: ELEANOR M PRESTON-WHYTE
• 金额: $ 29.99万
• 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/6942561
• 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.

说明(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在寻求解决非洲人口流行病的办法方面开展持续和相互提供信息的多学科互动。拟议项目的背景将设在南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省，尽管研究结果将对艾滋病毒对生命和福祉构成主要威胁的其他非洲局势产生共鸣。这些目标将通过在特定领域的人种学研究方法方面的联合、迭代和相辅相成的培训和研究计划来实现，这些方法是为当地艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究人员、活动家和政策制定者的需求量身定做的。来自南非纳塔尔大学艾滋病毒网络中心(HIVAN)和纽约市哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院的一个由社会、行为和生物医学研究人员组成的跨学科团队将参与该项目的这两个部分，每年为16-24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点进行基础研究。通过以课堂为基础的社会科学理论和方法教学，并在实地进行有指导的经验培训，受训者将能够以成熟的研究人员或专业人员或社区工作者的身份就艾滋病毒/艾滋病问题提出生物社会观点。体验式培训将在妇女和儿童在生活的三个领域面临与艾滋病毒有关的挑战的多年扩展案例研究的背景下进行：诊所环境，妇女和儿童在那里接受医疗护理；家庭和家庭，在家庭和家庭中，面对家庭成员对其艾滋病毒状况的反应，以及在更广泛的社区中，可能提供关键支持，如照顾生病的妇女和孤儿。这些研究是由采用抗逆转录病毒疗法这一里程碑式的事件推动的，以防止艾滋病毒母婴传播和维持贫穷妇女的健康。一旦实施，人种学研究和培训方案将成为一个无缝的整体，人种学项目作为培训方案的教学参照点和学习场所，而培训方案为人种学项目及其未来的扩展提供能力。