Building Research in Inter-Disciplinary Gender and HIV through the Social Sciences (The BRIDGES Programme)

项目摘要/摘要 这项补充申请是建立在家长基金的基础上的，“建立跨学科性别和性别研究 通过社会科学的艾滋病毒(桥梁)，这是一个由FIC和NIMH资助的为期5年的D43培训计划，总部设在 开普敦大学(UCT)公共学院社会和行为科学部(DSB) 健康与家庭医学。桥梁计划旨在加强UCT作为全球 通过建设个人和机构的能力，在性别和艾滋病毒社会科学研究方面处于领先地位 南部/撒哈拉以南非洲的创新性性别和艾滋病毒社会科学研究。本补充申请 将使我们能够提供艾滋病毒和老龄化方面的强化培训部分，并扩大我们的 培训包括我们桥梁计划的科学家以及其他D43和培训计划的科学家 在这一地区。在感染艾滋病毒的老年人中缺乏研究的部分原因是缺乏对 研究人员和熟练的研究人员对老龄化人口进行研究。有必要支持和 加强社会科学研究，特别关注南非的老龄化和艾滋病毒问题。 包含在研究项目中的有指导的培训机会提供了一个理想的机会 在重点研究领域集中培训和指导早期职业研究员，以建立研究能力和 加强对关键研究领域的了解，在这种情况下，重点是艾滋病毒社会科学研究 关于年龄和性别(与父母D43一致)。将开发一个正式的短期课程来培训一名 在与老年人、老龄化、艾滋病毒和LMIC内的性别有关的问题上有更广泛的研究员。此应用程序 因此建议：目标1：使早期职业研究员具备社会科学研究技能 以及艾滋病毒和老龄化方面的经验，通过有指导的研究重点关注OPLWH和性别 团契探讨耻辱和性别交叉对OPLWH的经验和影响 这与他们的艾滋病毒结果有关。目标2：培训现有桥梁研究员和其他附属员额-- 15名毕业于OPLWH的关键问题和研究方法的毕业生， 为期2天的短期课程。

Project Summary/Abstract This supplement application builds on the parent grant, ‘Building Research in Inter-Disciplinary Gender and HIV through the Social Sciences’ (BRIDGES), a 5-year, FIC- and NIMH-funded D43 training program based at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences (DSBS), School of Public Health and Family Medicine. The BRIDGES Program aims to strengthen UCT’s capacity to serve as a global leader in gender and HIV social science research by building both individual and institutional capacity for innovative gender and HIV social science research in South/sub-Saharan Africa. This supplement application will allow us to offer an intensified training component in HIV and Aging and also broaden the scope of our training to include both scientists from our BRIDGES Programme as well as other D43s and training programs in the area. The dearth of research among older persons living with HIV is in part linked to a lack of support for research and skilled researchers to conduct research on aging populations. There is a need to support and strengthen research in the social sciences with a specific focus on aging and HIV in the South African context. Mentored training opportunities that are embedded in research projects present an ideal opportunity to intensively train and mentor early career fellows in a focused research area to build research capacity and strengthen their understanding of key research domains, in this case HIV social science research with a focus on aging and gender (as aligned with the parent D43). A formal short course will be developed to train a broader set of fellows in issues related to older people, aging, HIV and gender within LMICs. This application therefore proposes to: Aim 1: To equip an early career research fellow with social science research skills and experience in HIV and aging with a focus on OPLWH and gender through a mentored research fellowship exploring experiences of intersecting stigma and particularly gender on OPLWH and the impacts of these on their HIV outcomes. Aim 2: To train the existing BRIDGES fellows and other affiliated post- graduates (n=15) in key issues and research methodologies for research with OPLWH through a one-off, 2-day short course.