Research and Reports

Gates Foundation Seeking Grant Proposals for $100M Initiative To Support Research on Infectious Diseases, Including HIV/AIDS
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=50733

CROI 2008 Reports

AIDSmeds.com http://www.aidsmeds.com/archive/currentNews_2151.shtml

AIDSmap.com  http://www.aidsmap.com/

IAS Report Summarizes Research Presented at International AIDS Conference http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=47970

Clinical Trials Units Selected for Newly Restructured HIV/AIDS Research Networks
NIH Press Release (3.12.07)
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced 60 U.S. and international institutions selected as HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Units (CTUs) in a newly restructured system of six HIV/AIDS clinical research networks. NIAID expects to fund additional CTUs within the next several months, bringing the total to 73.

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Detroit Community AIDS Library

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Gateway to metro Detroit resources and Wayne State University's Shiffman Medical Library Resources

Directory of Electronic Health Sciences Journals

www.med.monash.edu.au/shcnlib/dehsj/

This site is designed to help librarians in the health sciences manage electronic journals in their libraries. Focusing on full-text, electronic versions of peer-reviewed print journals indexed in Medline, the database currently contains information on over 800 titles in clinical medicine, biomedical research, nursing, and allied health. Listings for each journal include title, URL, full-text availability, price category, date full-text begins, whether or not it is indexed in Medline, related association, and publisher (with link to their site). While geared towards health science librarians, this site is useful for anyone interested in full-text online journals in medicine and health.

Kaiser Family Foundation Launches New Academic Website

The Kaiser Family Foundation has developed a resource targeted to the academic community, providing a wealth of information on health policy that can be used as an integral part of a course, as an additional source for independent research, or as background for a variety of audiences. The site gives health policy students and faculty easy access to data, literature, news and developments regarding major health policy topics and debates. The website includes issue models focusing on specific policy issues and reference libraries which provide broad background information on health policy topics such as Medicaid, Medicare and the uninsured. For more information, check out the website at www.kaiserEDU.org .

KaiserEDU.org ... New Look, New Features, and New Tools (5.9.05)

We invite you to take a few minutes to check out this newly updated website designed to give health policy students and faculty -- and others interested in the latest information on health policy issues -- easy access to data, literature, news and developments on major health policy topics and debates. The new site features new, easier topic navigation from the home page to provide you with direct access to background information and analysis on topics at the center of national health policy debates.

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http://www.kaiseredu.org/policy_index.asp

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Clinical Trials Units Selected for Newly Restructured HIV/AIDS Research Networks
NIH Press Release (3.12.07)

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced 60 U.S. and international institutions selected as HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Units (CTUs) in a newly restructured system of six HIV/AIDS clinical research networks. NIAID expects to fund additional CTUs within the next several months, bringing the total to 73.


“These Clinical Trials Units will carry out the next generation of HIV/AIDS vaccine, prevention and treatment research,” says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. “They will work with our clinical research networks in a flexible, collaborative and coordinated way to tackle the critical research questions that can help accelerate progress against the HIV/AIDS pandemic.” NIAID supports the world’s largest HIV/AIDS clinical research effort.


The CTU awards represent the second step of a two-part restructuring process of NIAID’s HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks. NIAID announced the clinical investigators and institutions responsible for leading the new networks in June 2006 ( see http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2006/leadership.htm ).


Each CTU is a member of one or more of the six NIAID HIV/AIDS networks: the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, the HIV Prevention Trials Network, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network, the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network, the International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials, and the Microbicide Trials Network.


The HIV/AIDS networks and their CTUs will pursue an integrated research approach to conducting clinical trials designed to address the highest priorities in HIV/AIDS research, including

· Developing a safe and effective HIV vaccine

· Conducting research for new drug development designed to translate lab findings into clinical applications

· Optimizing clinical management of HIV/AIDS, including co-infections and other HIV-related conditions

· Developing microbicides to prevent HIV acquisition and transmission

· Creating strategies to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission

· Developing new methods of HIV prevention


Each unit will be led by a principal investigator and include an administrative component, community advisory board and one or more clinical research sites--such as medical schools, academic health centers, hospitals or outpatient clinics--where studies will be conducted. A list of the principal investigators who will lead the CTUs and their affiliated clinical research sites can be accessed at  http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/organization/daids/Networks/daidsnetworkunits.htm .


The U.S.-based CTUs will be located in the following states and territories: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington and Puerto Rico. Additional CTUs are expected in Louisiana and Washington, D.C.


The CTUs located outside of the United States are in the following countries: the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru, South Africa and Switzerland. Additional CTUs are anticipated in Brazil, China, France, India and Thailand.


The 145 clinical research sites where trials will be performed may be located in different states or countries than the CTUs to which they are affiliated. In addition to the CTU locations noted above, clinical research sites are also anticipated in Michigan, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Virginia and internationally in Botswana, Malawi, Panama, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.


The selection process for the CTUs involved a rigorous and extensive scientific peer review of the CTUs’ proposed clinical programs and capabilities, including access to populations most affected or threatened by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, particularly women, children, adolescents and people of diverse ethnic or racial backgrounds.


Total funding for the clinical trials networks and the CTUs and their affiliated clinical research sites is expected to reach $285 million during the first year of the awards. This also includes funding for previously existing CTUs and clinical research sites to continue their participation in ongoing studies for a period of time to ensure that there are no gaps in current HIV/AIDS research studies.


Planning for the network restructuring began in October 2001 with extensive consultations between NIAID staff and other researchers, clinicians, patient advocates and people living with or at risk for developing HIV/AIDS.


The NIAID HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks are also co-funded and supported by a number of other NIH Institutes and centers that conduct collaborative research studies with the networks.


For additional information about the HIV/AIDS clinical trials units, see http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/QA/CTU07QA.htm .


NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health. NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria and illness from potential agents of bioterrorism. NIAID also supports research on basic immunology, transplantation and immune-related disorders, including autoimmune diseases, asthma and allergies.


The National Institutes of Health (NIH)--The Nation's Medical Research Agency--includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit http://www.nih.gov .


 

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