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UCLA CFAR CORES
Adherence to HIV Medication
The Adherence Core provides research consultation and facilitation to students, fellows, junior and senior investigators in the area of patient adherence to HIV regimens. This is an issue of growing importance in HIV, given the rigorous adherence demands of new antiretroviral combination therapies. In addition, adherence to other regimens — including risk reduction, diet, and exercise — represent another area of consultation, in conjunction with the Behavioral,
Adherence, Recruitment and Retention Core. This new core promotes collaborations between basic and behavioral scientists, and encourages HIV-related research, treatment, and clinical trials. All members of this core have worked with multidisciplinary teams and will work together with faculty from the basic and clinical science cores to ensure integrated research consultation.
The goal of this core is to provide technical and scientific assistance to researchers exploring medication adherence as part of HIV/AIDS research at UCLA, and to encourage multidisciplinary and community collaborations in basic, behavioral, and clinical research.
Specifically, this core will:
- Assist in development of measures of adherence.
- Assist researchers in understanding the determinants of adherence, and
implementation of adherence measures into psychological, clinical, and basic science research.
- Assist investigators in conducting studies of adherence with diverse
populations and communities in a culturally sensitive and congruent manner.
- Foster university-wide and state-wide partnerships among HIV investigators
by working directly with the BARR Core, to establish multidisciplinary research teams.
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