HIV/AIDS Research Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

描述（由申请人提供）：胡志明市（HCMC）是越南的商业中心和最大的城市，艾滋病毒流行规模大且迅速扩大，主要发生在年轻的注射毒品使用者和女性商业性工作者中。自1998年以来，这两个群体的艾滋病毒感染率急剧上升。目前，毒品使用迅速扩大，年轻吸毒者转向注射，注射毒品在性工作者中蔓延。艾滋病毒在普通人群中，特别是在青年人中的异性恋传播越来越多，这对该市构成了威胁。该市有700万人口，预防资源不足以控制疫情。 胡志明市艾滋病委员会是胡志明市所有艾滋病毒预防、控制、监测和治疗活动的中央组织和行政机构。通过与卫生部、胡志明市各社会组织（妇女联盟、工会、青年联盟等）的关系，艾滋病委员会拥有多部门和多机构的能力来制定有效的研究计划。 这是一个RO 3 CIPRA应用程序，计划在胡志明市艾滋病委员会常务局的指导下发展艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究中心。为期一年的CIPRA规划和组织期的目标是：（1）制定艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究中心的管理和计划;（2）确定该中心的长期研究和预防目标;（3）制定CIPRA第二阶段的申请。该中心的长期目标是提高以下领域的研究能力：1）可在资源贫乏的环境中采用的循证预防干预措施; 2）艾滋病毒、性病和结核病的监测; 3）诊断艾滋病毒、机会性感染和疾病进展的实验室能力; 4）艾滋病毒和机会性感染的治疗。 艾滋病委员会一直是该国制定艾滋病毒预防试点方案的国家领导者。胡志明市是一个具有前瞻性和充满活力的国际城市;这里开发的干预和治疗方案不仅可以作为越南其他地区的典范，也可以作为东南亚的典范。

Description (provided by applicant): Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the commercial center and largest city in Vietnam, has a large and rapidly expanding HIV epidemic, mostly among young injecting drug users and female commercial sex workers. HIV infection rates in both groups have increased sharply since 1998. At present, drug use is expanding rapidly, young drug users are switching to injection, and drug injection is spreading among sex workers. The city is threatened with an increasing heterosexual spread of HIV in the general population, particularly among youth. With seven million people in the city, prevention resources are not adequate to control the epidemic. The HCMC AIDS Committee is the central organizational and administrative structure for all HIV prevention, control, surveillance and treatment activities in HCMC. Through relationships with the Health Department, the various social organizations in HCMC (Women's Union, Labor Union, Youth Union, etc.), and universities, the AIDS Committee has the multi-sectional and multi-institutional capability to-develop an effective research program. This is an RO3 CIPRA application to plan the development of an HIV/AIDS Research Center, under the direction of the Standing Bureau of the HCMC AIDS Committee. The objectives of the one-year CIPRA planning and organizational period are to 1) develop the administration and plan for an HIV/AIDS Research Center; 2) define the long-term research and prevention goals of the Center; and 3) develop the application for the second stage of CIPRA. The long-term purposes of the Center are to increase research capacity in the areas of 1) evidence-based prevention interventions that can be employed in a resource-poor environment; 2) surveillance for HIV, STDs and tuberculosis; 3) laboratory capabilities for diagnosis of HIV, opportunistic infections, and disease progression; and 4) treatment of HIV and opportunistic infections. The AIDS Committee has been a national leader in developing pilot HIV prevention programs for the country. HCMC is a forward-looking and vibrant international city; intervention and treatment programs developed here can serve as models not only for other parts of Vietnam but also for Southeast Asia.