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- Title
Focusing National Institutes of Health HIV/AIDS Research for Maximum Population Impact.
- Authors
Walensky, Rochelle P.; Auerbach, Judith D.
- Abstract
Budget constraints pose challenges and opportunities for National Institutes of Health HIV/AIDS research. We present recommendations and priorities for focusing the HIV/AIDS research program, based on deliberations from an external Working Group of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council.Progress in advancing research on the pathophysiology, prevention, treatment, and impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is threatened by the decaying purchasing power of National Institutes of Health (NIH) dollars. A working group of the NIH Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council was charged by the NIH Director with developing a focused and concise blueprint to guide the use of limited funding over the next few years. Science priorities outlined by the working group and reported here are intended to maximally address individuals, groups, and settings most affected by the epidemic, and to redress shortcomings in realizing population-level HIV prevention, treatment, and eradication goals. Optimizing these priorities requires that traditional silos—defined by topic focus and by scientific discipline—be dissolved and that structural issues affecting the pipeline of new investigators and the ability of the Office of AIDS Research to fulfill its role of steward of the NIH HIV/AIDS research program be directly addressed.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Institutes of Health (U.S.); HIV infections; AIDS research; PATHOLOGICAL physiology; TREATMENT effectiveness
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2015, Vol 60, Issue 6, p937
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article