Social and Behavioral HIV Research Capacity Building in Uganda

乌干达的社会和行为艾滋病毒研究能力建设

• 批准号: 7922549
• 负责人: Fred Wabwire-Mangen
• 金额: $ 41.9万
• 依托单位: INFECTIOUS DISEASES INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7922549
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Behavior Therapy; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Caring; Client; Communities; Complex; Development; Economics; Evaluation; Faculty; Funding; Goals; HIV; Health; Health Benefit; Health system; Healthcare Systems; Modeling; Outcome; Pilot Projects; Positioning Attribute; Prevention; Process; Provider; Public Health; Quality of Care; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Risk Behaviors; Scientist; Solutions; Structure; Surveys; Training; Uganda; United States; Universities; behavioral health; behavioral/social science; cost; experience; improved; innovation; interdisciplinary approach; multidisciplinary; programs; scale up; skills; social; systems research

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The current challenges facing Uganda with regard to the need for effective and sustainable programs for delivering HIV care and integrating prevention into ART scale-up, reveal the need for multidisciplinary expertise in social and behavioral research. Most of the HIV research conducted in Uganda and by investigators at Makerere University has been biomedical in focus, and much of the social and behavioral HIV research experience of the University faculty has been with quantitative analysis of large structured surveys, and less with addressing formative, process, and outcome evaluations of HIV-related behavioral interventions. The proposed project will begin to fill this void through a partnership between Makerere University in Uganda, RAND in the United States, and care provider organizations in Uganda that will develop the capacity of Makerere investigators to conduct social and behavioral research that will address these challenges. The project will implement three pilot studies that will provide a training ground for building this research capacity and pragmatic, innovative solutions to prevention and treatment challenges facing the local community: (1) Develop and pilot a program to activate HIV clients as agents of prevention; (2) Examine quality of care, operational efficiency and cost across various models of ART scale-up; (3) Evaluate the impact of ART on social, economic and risk behavior outcomes. The goal of the project is to provide the training, research experience, and structural support to position the targeted Makerere investigators to compete successfully for independent HIV research funding and become recognized in the region as key contributors to HIV behavioral and social science. This focus on social, behavioral and health systems research also enables Makerere to capitalize on its partnership with RAND, which is known for its expertise in the development and evaluation of health care systems, and multidisciplinary approach to social and behavioral science. Furthermore, RAND's multidisciplinary roster of health scientists offers additional advantages with regard to building capacity for a wide array of research skills and tackling the complex and multi-faceted challenges of HIV care in Uganda. The public health benefits include the improved ability of Ugandan scientists to conduct innovative, multi-disciplinary social and behavioral research to address the HIV/AIDS challenges facing Ugandans.

描述（由申请人提供）：乌干达面临的目前挑战在需要提供艾滋病毒护理并将预防纳入艺术规模的有效和可持续性计划中，揭示了对社会和行为研究中多学科专业知识的需求。在乌干达进行的大多数HIV研究和Makerere University的研究人员都是生物医学的重点，而大学教师的许多社会和行为HIV研究经验都对大型结构化调查进行了定量分析，并且在解决形成性，过程和艾滋病毒相关行为干预的结果评估方面较少。拟议的项目将开始通过乌干达的Makerere University，美国RAND的Makerere University以及乌干达的护理提供者组织之间的合作伙伴关系来填补这一空白，该组织将发展Makerere调查人员进行社会和行为研究的能力，以应对这些挑战。该项目将实施三项试点研究，该研究将为建立这一研究能力和务实的，创新的解决方案提供培训理由，以预防和治疗挑战当地社区面临的挑战：（1）制定并试行一项计划，以激活HIV客户作为预防代理； （2）检查各种艺术规模的护理质量，运营效率和成本； （3）评估艺术对社会，经济和风险行为结果的影响。该项目的目的是提供培训，研究经验和结构支持，以定位目标的Makerere研究人员成功竞争独立的HIV研究资金，并在该地区被公认为是艾滋病毒行为和社会科学的关键因素。这种关注社会，行为和卫生系统研究还使Makerere能够利用与RAND的合作关系，RAND以其在卫生保健系统的发展和评估方面的专业知识以及对社会和行为科学的多学科方法而闻名。此外，兰德（Rand）的跨学科健康科学家阵容在建立各种研究技能的能力方面还具有额外的优势，并应对乌干达艾滋病毒护理的复杂而多方面的挑战。公共卫生的益处包括乌干达科学家进行创新，多学科的社会和行为研究的能力，以应对乌干达人面临的艾滋病毒/艾滋病挑战。