TRAINING PROGRAM IN TB AND HIV PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

拟议培训赠款的目标是为印度和喀麦隆指定机构的卫生科学家、临床医生和专职卫生工作者提供临床和研究培训。这项培训将促进国内的研究，为预防、诊断和治疗人类免疫缺陷病毒1型(艾滋病毒)和结核分枝杆菌(TB)感染提供帮助。该计划将构成纽约大学艾滋病研究中心的主要国际组成部分，该中心是集中于艾滋病毒和结核病的1700万美元研究资金的保护伞。鉴于艾滋病毒和结核病之间的相互关系，这是纽约大学医学院在基础和临床研究方面的专业知识，使用来自一种或两种病原体的标本和患者，纽约大学的工作人员是一个很好的位置，可以将其知识库转移到选定地点的个人。这些地点显然需要并有兴趣发展一种研究能力，以研究有效的手段，以便在地方一级和在指定国家的文化中诊断、预防和治疗艾滋病毒和结核病。培训赠款的具体目的是：(A)在这些国家建立关键的生物医学和行为科学专门知识；(B)促进新的预防研究工作，以补充国立卫生研究院支持的艾滋病毒和结核病研究；(C)在纽约大学与印度和喀麦隆的科学家之间建立长期合作关系；(D)将培训纳入这些国家正在进行的预防研究工作。这将通过赞助研究员的长期培训(大约2年)来实现。(具体目标1)、短期培训(约3个月)(具体目标2)、受训人员回国后组织的国内研讨会、讲习班和会议(具体目标3)，以及支持纽约培训补助金教员参加上述研讨会、讲习班和会议的国内培训(具体目标4)。

The goal of the proposed training grant is to provide clinical and research training for health scientists, clinicians and allied health workers from designated institutions in India and Cameroon. This training will facilitate in-country research that will provide the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infections with the human immunodeficiency virus -type 1 (HIV) and M. tuberculosis (TB). The program will form the principle international component of the NYU Center for AIDS Research which serves as the umbrella for > $17 million in research funding focused on HIV and TB. Given the inter-relationship between the occurrence of HIV and TB, which is the expertise at the NYU School of Medicine in basic and clinical research with specimens from and patients infected with either or both pathogens, the staff at NYU is an excellent position to transfer its knowledge base to individuals at the chosen sites. These sites have a demonstrated need and interest in developing a research capacity to study effective means that will be useful for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of HIV and TB at the local level and in the culture of the designated countries. The specific aims of the training grant are (a) to establish critical biomedical and behavioral science expertise in these countries, (b) to facilitate new prevention research efforts which will complement ongoing NIH-supported research n HIV and TB, (c) to establish long-term cooperative relationships between NYU and scientists in India and Cameroon, and (d) to integrate the training into ongoing prevention research efforts in these countries. This will be accomplished by sponsoring training for long-term training of fellows (approximately 2 yr.) (Specific Aim 1), short-term training (approximately 3 months) (Specific Aim 2), in-country seminars, workshops and conferences to be organized by the trainees upon return to his/her home country (Specific Aim 3), and supporting participation of NY training grant faculty in in- country training at the seminars, workshops and conferences mentioned above (Specific Aim 4).