Partnership for Capacity-Building for HIV/STD Prevention Research on Batswana Ado

博茨瓦纳阿多艾滋病毒/性病预防研究能力建设伙伴关系

• 批准号: 7334909
• 负责人: Bagele M Chilisa
• 金额: $ 44.9万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7334909
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Adolescent; Africa South of the Sahara; Age-Years; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Botswana; Church; Commit; Computer software; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Education; Ethnography; Evaluation; Experimental Designs; Faculty; HIV; HIV Infections; Hand; Infection; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Interview; Knowledge; Life; Measures; Methodology; Mission; Pennsylvania; Population; Prevention Research; Prevention intervention; Principal Investigator; Questionnaires; Rate; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk; Risk Behaviors; SAS; Schools; Secondary Schools; Sexual Transmission; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Students; Surveys; Testing; Universities; base; behavior change; behavioral/social science; design; disorder prevention; disorder risk; experience; improved; innovation; instrument; member; multidisciplinary; professor; programs; research study; skills; social; stem; theories; therapy development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The rates of HIV/AIDS among adolescents are alarming in Sub-Saharan Africa, where sexual transmission is the leading cause of infection with HIV. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Republic of Botswana has the second highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world. A limited capacity and infrastructure for rigorous HIV/STD prevention research has hampered efforts to curb the spread of sexually transmitted HIV infection among adolescents in Botswana. Accordingly, the broad long- term objective of the proposed research is to build capacity and infrastructure to develop, implement, and evaluate culturally competent, developmentally appropriate, sustainable interventions suitable for implementation in a variety of settings to dissuade Botswana adolescents from engaging in behaviors that increase their risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV. This application is a collaborative effort of a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Botswana and the University of Pennsylvania to build such capacity and infrastructure at the University of Botswana. The project will be directed by Professor Bagele Chilsa at the University of Botswana and Professor John Jemmott at the University of Pennsylvania. The capacity building will be organized around three cores. Qualitative and Quantitative Methodology Core, Social and Behavioral Intervention Core, and the Administrative Core. In addition, three research projects that draw upon the cores to address adolescents in different settings are proposed: School-Based HIV/STD Prevention, Church-Based HIV/STD Prevention, and HIV/STD Prevention for Adolescents Living with HIV. The Principal Investigator of each core and research project will be a University of Botswana faculty member and the Co-Principal Investigator will be a University of Pennsylvania faculty member. This partnership is committed to developing a creative comprehensive and interdisciplinary HIV/STD prevention research program on adolescents that is fully integrated within the research and education mission of the University Botswana and dedicated to addressing the urgent need to stem the devastating impact of HIV on one of the highest risk adolescent populations in the world.

描述(申请人提供)：在撒哈拉以南非洲，青少年中艾滋病毒/艾滋病的比率令人震惊，那里的性传播是感染艾滋病毒的主要原因。在撒哈拉以南非洲，博茨瓦纳的艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染率位居世界第二。严格的艾滋病毒/性传播疾病预防研究的能力和基础设施有限，阻碍了遏制性传播艾滋病毒感染在博茨瓦纳青少年中传播的努力。因此，拟议研究的广泛长期目标是建设能力和基础设施，以开发、实施和评估适合在各种环境中实施的具有文化能力的、适合发展的、可持续的干预措施，以劝阻博茨瓦纳青少年从事增加其包括艾滋病毒在内的性传播疾病(STD)风险的行为。这项申请是博茨瓦纳大学和宾夕法尼亚大学多学科研究小组合作的成果，目的是在博茨瓦纳大学建立这样的能力和基础设施。该项目将由博茨瓦纳大学的Bagele Chilsa教授和宾夕法尼亚大学的John Jemmott教授指导。能力建设将围绕三个核心进行组织。定性和定量方法论核心、社会和行为干预核心和行政核心。此外，还提出了三个利用核心解决不同环境中青少年问题的研究项目：基于学校的艾滋病毒/性传播疾病预防、基于教会的艾滋病毒/性传播疾病预防、以及针对艾滋病毒携带者青少年的艾滋病毒/性传播疾病预防。每个核心和研究项目的首席调查员将是博茨瓦纳大学的教职员工，联合首席调查员将是宾夕法尼亚大学的教职员工。这一伙伴关系致力于开发一项针对青少年的创造性、综合性和跨学科的艾滋病毒/性传播疾病预防研究计划，该计划完全纳入博茨瓦纳大学的研究和教育任务，致力于解决遏制艾滋病毒对世界上最高风险青少年人口之一的破坏性影响的迫切需要。