Partnership for Capacity-Building for HIV/STD Prevention Research on Batswana Ado

博茨瓦纳阿多艾滋病毒/性病预防研究能力建设伙伴关系

• 批准号: 7925629
• 负责人: Bagele M Chilisa
• 金额: $ 46.84万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7925629
• 关键词: 14 year old; 17 year old; 19 year old; AIDS prevention; AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Adolescent; Africa South of the Sahara; Behavior; Behavior Therapy; Botswana; Church; Commit; Computer software; Data; Data Analyses; Development; Education; Ethnography; Evaluation; Experimental Designs; Faculty; HIV; HIV Infections; Hand; Infection; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Interview; Knowledge; Life; Measures; Methodology; Mission; Pennsylvania; Population; Prevention Research; Preventive Intervention; Principal Investigator; Questionnaires; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Schools; Secondary Schools; Sexual Transmission; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Students; Surveys; Universities; base; behavior change; behavioral/social science; design; disorder prevention; disorder risk; efficacy testing; experience; high risk; improved; infrastructure development; innovation; instrument; member; multidisciplinary; professor; programs; research study; sex risk; skills; social; social science research; stem; theories; therapy development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The rates of HIV/AIDS among adolescents are alarming in Sub-Saharan Africa, where sexual transmission is the leading cause of infection with HIV. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the Republic of Botswana has the second highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world. A limited capacity and infrastructure for rigorous HIV/STD prevention research has hampered efforts to curb the spread of sexually transmitted HIV infection among adolescents in Botswana. Accordingly, the broad long- term objective of the proposed research is to build capacity and infrastructure to develop, implement, and evaluate culturally competent, developmentally appropriate, sustainable interventions suitable for implementation in a variety of settings to dissuade Botswana adolescents from engaging in behaviors that increase their risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV. This application is a collaborative effort of a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Botswana and the University of Pennsylvania to build such capacity and infrastructure at the University of Botswana. The project will be directed by Professor Bagele Chilsa at the University of Botswana and Professor John Jemmott at the University of Pennsylvania. The capacity building will be organized around three cores. Qualitative and Quantitative Methodology Core, Social and Behavioral Intervention Core, and the Administrative Core. In addition, three research projects that draw upon the cores to address adolescents in different settings are proposed: School-Based HIV/STD Prevention, Church-Based HIV/STD Prevention, and HIV/STD Prevention for Adolescents Living with HIV. The Principal Investigator of each core and research project will be a University of Botswana faculty member and the Co-Principal Investigator will be a University of Pennsylvania faculty member. This partnership is committed to developing a creative comprehensive and interdisciplinary HIV/STD prevention research program on adolescents that is fully integrated within the research and education mission of the University Botswana and dedicated to addressing the urgent need to stem the devastating impact of HIV on one of the highest risk adolescent populations in the world.

描述（由申请人提供）：青少年的艾滋病毒/艾滋病率在撒哈拉以南非洲令人震惊，在撒哈拉以南非洲，性传播是感染艾滋病毒的主要原因。在撒哈拉以南非洲，博茨瓦纳共和国是世界上艾滋病毒/艾滋病的第二高。严格的HIV/STD预防研究的有限能力和基础设施阻碍了遏制博茨瓦纳青少年性传播HIV感染的传播的努力。因此，拟议的研究的广泛长期目标是建立能力和基础设施，以开发，实施和评估具有文化胜任的，发育中适当，可持续的干预措施，适合在各种环境中实施，以消除博茨瓦纳青少年的行为，从而增加对性传播疾病的风险（包括HIV），包括HIV（包括HIV）。该应用程序是博茨瓦纳大学和宾夕法尼亚大学的多学科研究人员的合作努力，以在博茨瓦纳大学建立这种能力和基础设施。该项目将由博茨瓦纳大学的Bagele Chilsa教授和宾夕法尼亚大学的John Jemmott教授执导。能力建设将在三个核心周围组织。定性和定量方法论核心，社会和行为干预核心以及行政核心。此外，提出了借助核心来解决不同环境中的青少年的三个研究项目：基于学校的艾滋病毒/性病预防，基于教会的艾滋病毒/性病预防和艾滋病毒预防艾滋病毒的艾滋病毒/性病预防艾滋病毒。每个核心和研究项目的首席研究员将是博茨瓦纳大学的一名教职员工，联合主管调查员将是宾夕法尼亚大学的一名教职员工。这种合作伙伴关系致力于开发有关青少年的创造性综合和跨学科的HIV/STD预防研究计划，这些计划完全融入了博茨瓦纳大学的研究和教育使命，并致力于解决迫切需要消除艾滋病毒对世界上最高风险青少年人口的毁灭性影响。