THE NNTC COLLECTS, STORE, AND PROVIDE CLINICAL DATA AND WELL CHARACTERIZED BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS, INCLUDING POST-MORTEM TISSUE FROM STUDY VOLUNTEERS AND/OR ORGAN DONORS WITH HIV AS WELL AS HIV-NEGATIVE

1998年国家神经艾滋病组织联盟的建立是为了支持世界各地的研究人员，他们希望进一步了解NIMH对艾滋病毒相关的中枢神经系统功能障碍的理解-包括认知，神经和心理健康结果。通过NIMH和国家神经疾病和中风研究所（NINDS）的核心资金，以及国家药物滥用研究所（NIDA）的补充资金，该联盟为在抗逆转录病毒治疗背景下对HIV诱导的神经发病机制感兴趣的研究人员提供临床数据和生前和死后生物标本，以及正在努力治愈HIV的研究人员。

In 1998. the National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium was established to support researchers around the world who wish to further NIMH’s understanding of HIV-associated central nervous system dysfunction – including cognitive, neurologic and mental health outcomes. Through core funding from NIMH and The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and supplemental funding from The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) this consortium provides clinical data and ante- and post-mortem biological specimens to investigators interested in HIV-induced neuropathogenesis in the context of anti-retroviral therapy, as well as investigators who are advancing efforts toward a cure for HIV.