Consequences of HIV Infection
Overview
This program supports research on infants, children, and adolescents who are HIV infected. This includes studies addressing biological, physiological, psychosocial, and psychiatric consequences of living with HIV across the lifespan into adulthood.
Areas of Emphasis
- Determine the effects of HIV/AIDS and its treatments on behavioral, cognitive, and social development of infected infants, children and adolescents.
- Support qualitative and quantitative assessment of behavioral, family, social, or community factors associated with HIV disease progression of infants, children and adolescents.
- Assess clinical neuroscience aspects of active or latent HIV-1 infection in the developing human brain.
- Develop and test interventions to improve adherence to medical treatment regimens and focus on the transition in medical responsibility associated with entering adolescence and young adulthood.
- Determine the effects of co-infections and mental health co-morbidities associated with or linked to HIV on behavioral, cognitive, and social development of infants, children and adolescents.
- Develop assessment technologies as well as methodological and statistical tools for the evaluation of natural history and treatment related change in behavioral, cognitive, and social development of infants, children and adolescents infected with HIV or affected by HIV, particularly where applicable to resource poor environments.
Contact
Emile Brouwers, Ph.D.
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6216, MSC 9619
301-443-4526, ebrouwer@mail.nih.gov
