SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE CORE

艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病构成的挑战是通过创造性地将 生物医学、社会和行为方法。尽管我们在这方面取得了巨大进步 对疫苗开发和艾滋病毒有效治疗的了解，服药依从性差， 与艾滋病毒相关的耻辱，以及卫生服务提供方面的差距限制了生物医学的影响 预付款。在了解病毒的发病机制和传播方面也取得了重大进展。 然而，将这一进展转化为降低艾滋病毒发病率，需要了解有效的方法。 来改变人类的行为。需要最佳战略来传播和融入常规护理 被发现是有效的行为方法。针对多个层面的干预措施，生物和 行为，最有可能是有效的，但需要跨学科的协作。首要目标是 北卡罗来纳大学CFAR的社会和行为核心是促进合作的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究努力， 整合生物医学和社会科学方法。在这份续订申请中，我们重点关注三个具体的 目的：1)支持正在进行的艾滋病毒/艾滋病社会和行为研究以及社会和行为研究 正在进行的艾滋病毒/艾滋病生物医学研究的组成部分，在一些领域提供技术援助 2)支持和加强现有艾滋病毒/艾滋病社会和发展组织之间的沟通与合作 行为研究人员相互之间以及与生物医学研究人员；以及3)计划新的研究 针对艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行的新的、高度优先的社会和行为方面的倡议。我们会 通过创建和维护以证据为基础的预防干预措施和 评估艾滋病毒/艾滋病的心理社会方面的测量工具。我们还将继续帮助赞助商 CFAR研讨会，以及制定和开展年度社会和行为艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究 研讨会。这些论坛提供了一个交流思想和开发新的协作的机会 努力。我们将创建一个更新的社会和行为研究人员资源目录，一旦 更新，将其放在网上，以增强其可用性。我们会与其他核心紧密合作，加强使用和 传播北卡罗来纳大学临床数据库中数据的社会和行为分析。核心G用户 代表了来自北卡罗来纳大学几所学校的广泛的社会和生物医学学者 和RTI。

The challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic are tackled most effectively by creatively integrating biomedical, social and behavioral approaches. Although dramatic advances have been made in our understanding of vaccine development'and the effective treatment of HIV, poor medication adherence, stigma associated with HIV, and disparities in health services delivery limit the impact of biomedical advances. Significant progress has also been made in understanding viral pathogenesis and transmission. Translating this progress into reduced incidence of HIV, however, requires knowledge of efficacious methods to change human behavior. Optimal strategies are needed to disseminate and integrate into routine care behavioral approaches that are found to be effective. Interventions that target multiple levels, biologic and behavioral, are most likely to be effective but require collaboration across disciplines. The overarching goal of the UNC CFAR's Social and Behavioral Core is to facilitate collaborative HIV/AIDS research efforts that integrate biomedical and social science approaches. In this renewal application, we focus on three specific aims: 1) to support ongoing HIV/AIDS social and behavioral research as well as social and behavioral components of ongoing HIV/AIDS biomedical research by providing technical assistance in a number of areas; 2) to support and enhance the communication and collaboration of existing HIV/AIDS Social and Behavioral researchers with each other and with biomedical researchers; and 3) to plan new research initiatives that address novel, high priority social and behavioral aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We will achieve these goals by creating and maintaining an archive of evidence-based prevention interventions and measurement tools that assess psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS. We will also continue to help sponsor eekly CFAR seminars as well as develop and put on an annual Social and Behavioral HIV/AIDS Research symposium. These forums provide an opportunity to exchange ideas and develop novel collaborative endeavors. We will create an updated Social and Behavioral Researchers Resource Directory and, once updated, put it onlline to enhance its usability. We will work closely with other cores to enhance the use and dissemination of social and behavioral analyses of data in the UNC clinical database. Core G users represent a broad range of productive social and biomedical scholars from across several UNC Schools, FHI and RTI.