CORE--INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SUPPORT

当我们上一次提交P30申请时，CAIR没有国际艾滋病预防研究，当时表示它的发展将是一个优先事项。一场重大的艾滋病毒流行病正在中欧和东欧迅速蔓延，我们选择将工作重点主要放在这一地区。国际研究支持核心基金于2002年3月作为本中心经费的竞争性补充而获得资助。此后，CAIR建立了一系列强有力的国际研究、服务和培训活动，国际项目现在占CAIR校外研究经费总额的三分之一以上。核心项目提供了资源，帮助CAIR与中欧和东欧国家的非政府组织、防治艾滋病政府官员和艾滋病毒预防研究人员建立关系。这些合作产生了一些试点研究，为更大规模的干预研究试验奠定了基础。他们还发表了20份出版物，使国际公共卫生注意到艾滋病毒蔓延最迅速的区域

When our last P30 application was submitted, CAIR had no international HIV/AIDS prevention research and stated then that its development would be a high priority. A major HIV epidemic is rapidly unfolding in Central and Eastern Europe, and we chose to focus our work primarily in this region. The International Research Support Core was funded as a competitive supplement to our Center grant in March, 2002. CAIR has since established a vigorous line of international research, service, and training activities, and international projects now account for over one-third of CAIR's total extramural research funding. The Core has provided resources that helped CAIR to establish relationships with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), AIDS governmental officials, and HIV prevention researchers in countries in Central and Eastern Europe. These collaborations resulted in a number of pilot studies that served as foundations for larger intervention research trials. They also resulted in 20 publications that have brought international public health attention to a region with the most rapidly-expanding HIV epidemic in the world. The Core's functions include resources for stimulating and strengthening new international collaborations, translation and linguistic resources, vehicles to enhance information exchange between CAIR and international HIV prevention researchers and institutions, consultation in cultural issues related to AIDS research in Eastern European countries, training seminars in HIV prevention research ethics for institutions abroad, and international research administrative support.