Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative

描述（由申请人提供）：这是贝勒医学院根据计划公告PAR-10-219，艾滋病国际培训和研究计划（AITRP）重新竞争研究培训申请资金。1996年在得克萨斯州儿童医院设立了贝勒医学院国际儿科艾滋病倡议，其目标是通过扩大获得艾滋病毒/艾滋病护理和治疗、保健专业教育和培训以及临床研究的机会，改善全球感染艾滋病毒的儿童和家庭的健康和生活。BIPAI通过其AITRP寻求发展合作性国际研究培训活动，以提高受艾滋病毒/艾滋病严重打击的伙伴国家的可持续研究能力。我们活动的最终目标是为感染艾滋病毒的儿童和家庭提供预防、护理和治疗信息，从而改善健康和生活，促进扩大获得恢复健康和延长生命的护理和治疗的机会。主要重点是与儿童艾滋病毒/艾滋病的护理和治疗有关的业务研究。此应用程序请求支持我们的AITRP的更新、增强和扩展。我们要求在任何时候为总共6名长期受训人员提供资金。研究培训能力的提高对于履行我们对伙伴机构和政府的能力建设活动承诺至关重要。很难夸大AITRP在过去十年中对BIPAI发展的催化作用。贝勒的AITRP在建立研究能力方面发挥着绝对重要的作用，这将有助于维持BIPAI儿童临床卓越中心网络。特别是在过去的五年中，BIPAI网络内的研究企业蓬勃发展，为当前和未来的AITRP学者提供了丰富的培训环境。现在存在的挑战和机会是利用这些惊人的资源，扩大对数十万感染艾滋病毒的儿童的预防、护理和治疗，并为之提供信息，从而影响到地球仪各地数百万年轻人的生命。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is the Baylor College of Medicine's re-competing research training application for funding under Program Announcement PAR-10-219, AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP). The Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) at Texas Children's Hospital was established in 1996 with a goal of improving the health and lives of HIV-infected children and families globally through expanded access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment, health professional education and training and clinical research. BIPAI seeks through its AITRP to develop collaborative international research training activities that will enhance sustainable research capacity in partner countries hard hit by HIV/AIDS. The ultimate goal of our activities is to inform the prevention, care and treatment of HIV-infected children and families, thereby improving health and lives and catalyzing expanded access to health-restoring and life-prolonging care and treatment. The primary focus is operational research related to the care and treatment of pediatric HIV/AIDS. This application requests support for the renewal, enhancement, and expansion of our AITRP. We are requesting funding for a total of six long-term trainees at any given time. This increase in research training capacity will be critical to fulfilling our commitments to partner institutions and governments for capacity building activities. It is difficult to overstate the catalytic role that AITRP funding has had in BIPAI's development over the past ten years. Baylor's AITRP serves an absolutely essential role in building the research capacity that will help to sustain the BIPAI Children's Clinical Centers of Excellence Network over time. The past five years in particular have been characterized by a blossoming of the research enterprise within the BIPAI Network, providing a rich training environment for current and future AITRP scholars. The challenge and opportunity exist now to harness these phenomenal resources 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.