MENA Think Tank Stigma and HIV Prevention

中东和北非智库耻辱和艾滋病毒预防

• 批准号: 7756118
• 负责人: ANKE A. EHRHARDT
• 金额: $ 7.33万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE DBA RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7756118
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Accounting; Address; Arabs; Behavior; Behavioral; Caring; Clinical; Collaborations; Consensus; Development; Discrimination; Educational workshop; Epidemic; Funding; Gender; Goals; Government; HIV; Health; Health Services Accessibility; Hygiene; Individual; Institutes; International; Journals; Manuscripts; Measurable; Measurement; Measures; Middle East; New York; Nomads; Northern Africa; Outcome; Peer Review; Population; Populations at Risk; Prevention; Process; Production; Provider; Public Health; Publications; Publishing; Recommendation; Refugees; Research; Research Project Grants; Research Proposals; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Science; Series; Stigmata; Structure; Universities; Work; Youth; design; empowered; experience; meetings; member; parity; prevent; programs; response; social; social stigma; symposium; transmission process

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, in collaboration with the National Institute of Hygiene of the Moroccan Ministry of Health and the UCLA Program in Global Health, propose to conduct a Middle East/North Africa (MENA)-specific Think Tank on HIV/AIDS stigma and HIV prevention. This workshop will engage experts in the behavioral, social, and biomedical sciences from throughout the MENA region and the US; a series of manuscripts addressing the regional impact of stigma on HIV/AIDS vulnerability will be commissioned and reviewed at the meeting. Final versions of the manuscript series will be published in a peer-reviewed journal along with the major recommendations emanating from the Think Tank. HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination in the Middle East and North Africa are widely cited as critical barriers to prevention and care, facilitating HIV transmission and impeding surveillance efforts. Within the region, where HIV and STIs are associated with immorality and behaviors prohibited by Arab and Islamic culture, public health officials and providers describe stigma as an ongoing challenge to HIV prevention. Despite consensus on the importance of HIV/AIDS stigma, little is known about existing programs and strategies that target stigma reduction in the region. Even less is known regarding the scientific characterization and measurement of HIV/AIDS stigma; much of what is available is vague, speculative, and often limited to observational accounts of its consequences. Characterization of regional drivers of HIV/AIDS stigma, which prevents large MENA populations from protecting themselves or accessing care, has both immediate and long-term scientific and public health significance. We will convene the MENA Think Tank on Stigma and HIV Prevention to (1) define and characterize individual, cultural, and structural factors giving rise to MENA region-specific HIV/AIDS stigma; (2) develop an analytical framework for measurement and surveillance of HIV/AIDS stigma in the Middle East and North Africa; (3) produce a focused series of manuscripts to be published collectively as a Special Issue of a relevant peer-reviewed journal; (4) develop and disseminate a MENA region-specific HIV/AIDS stigma research agenda; and (5) create research partnerships that result in concrete research proposals and projects following on the research agenda to be articulated at the conference. The proposed Think Tank will have concrete outcomes - publications in peer-reviewed journals, formation of a MENA network on HIV/AIDS, and specific collaborative research projects and proposals - that will build lasting partnerships to make scientific and programmatic contributions to the field. We are specifically structuring the proposed Think Tank to result in the formation of stronger regional collaborations to pursue specific research projects related to HIV stigma in the MENA region, as well as the funding to support such work.

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约州立精神病学研究所和哥伦比亚大学的艾滋病毒临床和行为研究中心与摩洛哥卫生部国家卫生研究所和加州大学洛杉矶分校全球卫生项目合作，建议开展中东/北非（MENA）艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名和艾滋病毒预防方面的专门智库。本次研讨会将邀请来自中东和北非地区和美国的行为、社会和生物医学科学专家参加;会议将委托撰写一系列手稿，讨论污名化对艾滋病毒/艾滋病脆弱性的区域影响。该系列手稿的最后版本将与智囊团提出的主要建议一起沿着在同行评审期刊上。中东和北非的艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名化和歧视被广泛认为是预防和护理的关键障碍，助长了艾滋病毒的传播，阻碍了监测工作。在该区域，艾滋病毒和性传播感染与阿拉伯和伊斯兰文化所禁止的不道德和行为有关，公共卫生官员和提供者将污名化描述为对艾滋病毒预防的持续挑战。尽管对艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名化的重要性达成了共识，但对该地区现有的旨在减少污名化的方案和战略知之甚少。关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名化的科学特征和衡量方法，人们所知更少;现有的大部分信息都是模糊的、推测性的，而且往往限于对其后果的观察性描述。艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名化的区域驱动因素的特征，阻止大量中东和北非人口保护自己或获得护理，具有直接和长期的科学和公共卫生意义。我们将召集中东和北非污名化和艾滋病毒预防问题智囊团会议，以便（1）界定和描述造成中东和北非地区艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名化的个人、文化和结构因素;（2）制定一个分析框架，用于衡量和监测中东和北非艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名化;（3）编写一系列重点突出的手稿，作为相关同行评审期刊的特刊集体出版;（4）制定和传播中东和北非地区艾滋病毒/艾滋病污名化研究议程;以及（5）建立研究伙伴关系，从而产生具体的研究建议和项目，这些建议和项目将在会议上阐述。拟议的智囊团将取得具体成果-在同行评审的期刊上发表文章，建立中东和北非艾滋病毒/艾滋病网络，以及具体的合作研究项目和建议-这将建立持久的伙伴关系，为该领域作出科学和方案贡献。我们正在具体构建拟议的智囊团，以形成更强有力的区域合作，在中东和北非地区开展与艾滋病毒污名化有关的具体研究项目，并为支持此类工作提供资金。