New Orleans Adolescent Medicine Trials Unit

描述(由申请人提供)：新奥尔良青少年医学试验单位(ATU)计划继续开展由青少年试验网络(ATN)计划和支持的临床试验，以高效和合乎道德的方式进行。ATU将使其教职员工参与协作工作，支持1)为12-24岁的青年，特别是受艾滋病毒/艾滋病影响的青年制定研究想法和方案；2)参与式参与，向ATN提出更高水平的科学严谨要求；3)支持青年和网络目标的研究方法；4)通过直接临床工作以及与青年、临床同事和当地社区合作，建立潜在志愿者队列；5)支持青年和研究需求的招募和保留方法；以及6)向学术界和我们生活和工作的更广泛的社区传播成果的方式。 相关性：对艾滋病毒高危青年或感染艾滋病毒的青年进行严格研究，提高社区努力的质量和效力，以减少艾滋病毒/艾滋病在美国和国际上的破坏性影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New Orleans Adolescent Medicine Trials Unit (ATU) plans to continue its work carrying out the clinical trials planned and supported by the Adolescent Trials Network (ATN), in an efficient and ethical manner. The ATU will engage its faculty and staff in collaborative work supporting the development of 1) research ideas and protocols for youth ages 12-24, particularly those youth affected by HIV/AIDS; 2) participatory involvement that challenges the ATN to ever higher levels of scientific rigor; 3) research methods that support both youth and Network goals; 4) a cohort of potential volunteers through direct clinical work and collaboration with youth, clinical colleagues and the local community; 5) recruitment and retention methods that support youth and research needs; and 6) ways of disseminating results that reach the academic and the wider communities in which we live and work. RELEVANCE: Rigorous research with youth at risk for or infected with HIV improves the quality and effectiveness of community efforts to reduce the devastating effects of HIV/AIDS in the United States and internationally.