ADULT AIDS CLINICAL TRIALS GROUPS

梅哈里医学院和范德比尔特大学学院 在田纳西州的纳什维尔联合提出了一个少数ACTU。 这种历史上黑人医疗保健行业之间的伙伴关系 学校和一个建立良好的研究导向的多数学校提供 一个独特的环境，在其中探索我们的国家问题， 艾滋病临床试验中缺乏少数群体的参与。 拟议的ACTU计划将探索一个新的概念， 艾滋病临床试验。 它的目标是发现技术， 改善少数族裔、妇女和 吸毒的艾滋病患者。 目标群体将是黑人。 的 目标妇女尤其会涉及生育。 所述靶向药物 滥用者将包括滥用非注射和注射药物的病人。 毒品 该计划的独特之处在于， 少数人和多数人的机构，将得到最充分的利用 可能的程度。 通过AMHPS艾滋病联合会， 将在其他历史悠久的黑人机构中进一步测试。 的 目标将是设计和测试将工作时， 出口到不属于这种少数群体的ACTU， 没有ACTU的临床研究中心。

The faculties of Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine jointly propose a Minority ACTU in Nashville, Tennessee. this partnership between a historically black health care professions school and a well established research oriented majority school offers a unique environment in which to explore our national problem with the lack of minority participation in the AIDS clinical trials. The proposed ACTU program will explore a new concept for accomplishing AIDS clinical trials. It will be targeted to discovering techniques for improving recruitment, retention, and compliance of minorities, women and drug abusing AIDS patients. The targeted minority will be Black. The targeted women will especially involve child bearing. The targeted drug abusers will include patients who abuse non-injected as well as injected drugs. The unique feature of the program, the partnership between a minority and a majority institution, will be exploited to the fullest possible extent. Through the AMHPS AIDS Consortium, selected techniques will be further tested in other historically Black institutions. The objective will be to devise and test techniques that will work when exported to ACTUs that do not have such a minority affiliation, and to clinical sites that do not have an ACTU.