New Orleans Adolescent Medicine Trials Unit

描述（由申请人提供）：新奥尔良青少年医学试验单位（ATU）计划继续开展由青少年试验网络（ATN）计划和支持的临床试验的工作，以有效和道德的方式。ATU将让其教职员工参与协作工作，以支持以下方面的发展：1)针对12-24岁青年的研究思路和方案，特别是那些受艾滋病毒/艾滋病影响的青年；2)参与性参与，向ATN提出更高的科学严谨性挑战；3)支持青年和网络目标的研究方法；4)通过直接的临床工作和与青年、临床同事和当地社区的合作，培养一批潜在的志愿者；5)支持青年和研究需求的招聘和留用方法；6)传播成果的方式，这些成果可以传播到学术界和我们生活和工作的更广泛的社区。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New Orleans Adolescent Medicine Trials Unit (ATU) plans to continue its work carrying out the clinical trials planned and supported by the Adolescent Trials Network (ATN), in an efficient and ethical manner. The ATU will engage its faculty and staff in collaborative work supporting the development of 1) research ideas and protocols for youth ages 12-24, particularly those youth affected by HIV/AIDS; 2) participatory involvement that challenges the ATN to ever higher levels of scientific rigor; 3) research methods that support both youth and Network goals; 4) a cohort of potential volunteers through direct clinical work and collaboration with youth, clinical colleagues and the local community; 5) recruitment and retention methods that support youth and research needs; and 6) ways of disseminating results that reach the academic and the wider communities in which we live and work. RELEVANCE: Rigorous research with youth at risk for or infected with HIV improves the quality and effectiveness of community efforts to reduce the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States and internationally.