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The Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA) was a programme sponsored by National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States.[1]

The CPCRA was established in 1989[2] and included 15 research units. A Statistical Center at the University of Minnesota was funded from 1990 to 1997.[3][4]

According to the CPCRA's own website, they were :

"an experienced community-based clinical trials network whose main goal is to obtain evidence to properly inform healthcare providers and people living with HIV on the most appropriate use of available HIV therapies in diverse populations across the spectrum of HIV diseases..."[5]

The overall objective of the CPCRA is to design studies of sufficient size and duration of follow up to evaluate the long-term benefits and unintended consequences of various treatment strategies using available agents to assess long-term immunologic, virologic and clinical outcomes. CPCRA trials are designed with nested substudies aimed at understanding the pathogenesis of HIV infection and the public health implications of its treatment.[6]

The International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials (INSIGHT) biorepository system has its roots in the CPCRA.[7]

An antiretroviral medication self-reporting questionnaire was developed by the programme.[8]

The programme organised the 058 FIRST (Flexible Initial Retrovirus Suppressive Therapies) trial: a large, long-term, randomized, prospective comparison of three different antiretroviral strategies in highly active antiretroviral therapy-naïve, HIV-1-infected persons.[9]

References

  1. ^ [1]
  2. ^ "An inventory of federally sponsored HIV and HIV-relevant databases. Database:Terry Beirn community programs for clinical research on AIDS (CPCRA) observational database (ODB)". Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). 7 January 2000. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  3. ^ research grant information
  4. ^ [2]
  5. ^ [3]
  6. ^ [4][dead link]
  7. ^ Huppler Hullsiek, Katherine; George, Michelle; Brown, Shawn K. (November 2010). "Designing and managing a flexible and dynamic biorepository system: a 15 year perspective from the CPCRA, ESPRIT, and INSIGHT clinical trial networks". Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 5 (6): 538–544. doi:10.1097/COH.0b013e32833f2058.
  8. ^ Mannheimer, Sharon; Friedland, Gerald; Matts, John; Child, Carroll; Chesney, Margaret (2002). "The Consistency of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Predicts Biologic Outcomes for Human Immunodeficiency Virus—Infected Persons in Clinical Trials". Clinical Infectious Diseases. 34: 1115–21. doi:10.1086/339074.
  9. ^ MacArthur, RD; Chen, L; Mayers, DL; Besch, CL; Novak, R; van den Berg-Wolf, M; Yurik, T; Peng, G; Schmetter, B; Brizz, B; Abrams, D (April 2001). "The rationale and design of the CPCRA (Terry Beirn Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS) 058 FIRST (Flexible Initial Retrovirus Suppressive Therapies) trial". Control Clin Trials. 22: 176−90. doi:10.1016/S0197-2456(01)00111-8.


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