A Kenya Free of AIDS: Harnessing interdisciplinary science for HIV prevention

没有艾滋病的肯尼亚：利用跨学科科学预防艾滋病毒

• 批准号: 7501260
• 负责人: Wanda Martina MORRIS
• 金额: $ 46.62万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 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/7501260
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Address; African; Area; Behavioral; Biomedical Research; Caring; Child; Client; Collaborations; Communities; Community Developments; Counseling; Data; Demography; Development; Ecology; Educational workshop; Evidence based intervention; Faculty; Female; Funding; Grant; HIV; Harm Reduction; Health; Home environment; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Intervention; Joints; Kenya; Left; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Methodology; Nature; Other Resources; Population; Population Group; Population Sciences; Population Study; Positioning Attribute; Prevention; Prevention Research; Prevention intervention; Prevention strategy; Procedures; Prostitution; Public Health; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Ethics Committees; Research Infrastructure; Research Institute; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Risk Behaviors; Risk Reduction; Science; Scientist; Secondary Prevention; Seeds; Series; Services; Social Behavior; Social Environment; Social Sciences; Training; Translating; Translations; Universities; Vertical Disease Transmission; Washington; Widow; Work; behavior change; behavioral/social science; design; interest; male; next generation; programs; sex; transmission process

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are proposing a partnership between the University of Washington (UW), and the University of Nairobi (UN) to work towards A Kenya Free of AIDS. This partnership draws on a 20 year history of the UW in building capacity for HIV/AIDS research at the UN, and the strength of the population science community at both institutions and in other institutions in the Nairobi area. The program will support several ongoing research collaborations between scientists at UW and the University of Nairobi that are well positioned to benefit from the contributions of social science. Each of these projects focuses on HIV prevention. Our specific aims are: 1. To build capacity for rigorous social and behavioral science research on HIV/AIDS through a combination of (a) Research infrastructure support, (b) Faculty development, (c) Mechanisms for building an interdisciplinary scholarly community, and (d) Enhancing IRB training and procedures at the University of Nairobi; and 2. To conduct foundational interdisciplinary research projects in HIV prevention focused on (a) A widow inheritance intervention, (b) A prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) intervention, (c) Translation of a secondary transmission prevention intervention, and (d) A life course study of female sex workers and their male clients. The UW brings strong institutional resources to this partnership, with an active Sociobehavioral and Prevention Research core in the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), and a group of population scientists with interests in HIV in the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE). The University of Nairobi has a parallel set of units, with a new University Centre for HIV Prevention and Research (UCHIVPR) and well established Population Studies Research Institute (PSRI). In both institutions, this grant will help to establish the mechanisms to promote the interaction between social science, public health and biomedical research. Nairobi is also home to the African Population Health Research Center, and the Population Council. Both have agreed to work together with us on this initiative. As behavior changes are beginning to make progress in prevention, new biomedical prevention interventions are coming online. Increasingly, it is recognized that the biomedical and behavioral prevention efforts must work together for HIV prevention and treatment efforts to succeed. This application will provide a mechanism to facilitate the cross-disciplinary research needed to develop the next generation of integrated HIV/AIDS prevention strategies.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议华盛顿大学（UW）和内罗毕大学（UN）建立伙伴关系，共同努力实现肯尼亚无艾滋病。这种伙伴关系借鉴了华盛顿大学在联合国建立艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究能力的20年历史，以及两个机构和内罗毕地区其他机构的人口科学界的力量。该计划将支持华盛顿大学和内罗毕大学的科学家之间正在进行的几项研究合作，这些合作能够从社会科学的贡献中受益。这些项目都侧重于艾滋病毒预防。我们的具体目标是：1. 2.通过以下方式建立对艾滋病毒/艾滋病进行严格的社会和行为科学研究的能力：（a）研究基础设施支助;（B）师资培养;（c）建立跨学科学术界的机制;（d）加强内罗毕大学的伦理审查和审查程序;开展艾滋病毒预防方面的基础性跨学科研究项目，重点是：（a）寡妇继承干预措施;（B）预防母婴传播干预措施;（c）实施二级传播预防干预措施;（d）对女性性工作者及其男性顾客的生命历程研究。华盛顿大学为这种伙伴关系带来了强大的机构资源，在艾滋病研究中心（CFAR）有一个积极的社会行为和预防研究核心，在人口与生态研究中心（CSDE）有一群对艾滋病毒感兴趣的人口科学家。内罗毕大学有一套平行的单位，有一个新的艾滋病毒预防和研究大学中心和一个建立良好的人口研究所。在这两个机构中，这笔赠款将有助于建立促进社会科学、公共卫生和生物医学研究之间互动的机制。内罗毕也是非洲人口健康研究中心和人口理事会的所在地。双方都同意就这一倡议与我们合作。随着行为改变开始在预防方面取得进展，新的生物医学预防干预措施正在上线。人们日益认识到，生物医学和行为预防工作必须共同努力，艾滋病毒预防和治疗工作才能取得成功。这一应用程序将提供一种机制，促进制定下一代艾滋病毒/艾滋病综合预防战略所需的跨学科研究。