Partnership for Social Science AIDS Research in South African's Era of ART Rollou

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的总体目标是发展和扩大已经在阿金库尔卫生和人口单位（AHPU）在威特沃特斯兰德大学（Wits）在南非约翰内斯堡和在科罗拉多大学的基础设施？博尔德（CU）至：（1）改善艾滋病预防股/Wits社会科学艾滋病研究的基础设施和能力建设;（2）利用阿金库尔卫生和人口监测系统的纵向数据，评估南非农村地区抗逆转录病毒疗法的采用情况，以审查接受和坚持治疗方面的社会经济差异以及治疗的短期效果，包括对受影响个人及其家庭的影响（特别是长者）;及3）研究爱滋病的社会经济影响，方法是进行有关爱滋病病毒感染率及死亡率的量度及模型的研究项目;爱滋病对个人、家庭及社区（包括长者）的社会经济影响;以及评估爱滋病病毒干预（预防）计划，以及这些计划如何改变爱滋病的社会经济影响。 所有研究都将利用并受益于阿金库尔卫生和人口监测系统的持续记录以及Wits AHPU的工作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of the project is to develop and extend the infrastructure already in place at the Agincourt Health and Population Unit (AHPU) at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa and at the University of Colorado ? Boulder (CU) to: 1) Improve infrastructure and build capacity for social science AIDS research at AHPU/Wits; 2) Evaluate the introduction of ART in rural South Africa by using the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System (AHDSS) longitudinal data to examine socioeconomic differentials in uptake of and adherence to treatment and short-term effects of treatment, including impacts on affected individuals and their families (specifically elders); and 3) Study the socioeconomic effects of AIDS by conducting research projects on the measurement of and models for HIV prevalence and mortality; the socioeconomic impacts of AIDS on individual, family and community (including elderly); and evaluation of HIV intervention (prevention) programs, and how they change the socioeconomic impacts of AIDS. All studies will take advantage of and benefit from the ongoing records of the Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System and the work of the Wits AHPU.