partnerships in Technology Transfer - An Innovative Way Apply to HIV/AIDS Research into Policy and Program Implementation

摘要

As part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s mission of biomedical research to extend healthy life by reducing the burdens of illness and as part of a coordinated effort to address some of the existing gaps related to the availability to the general public of NIH inventions, the NIH's Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) is currently working on ways to enhance the process of transferring technologies to developing countries. OTT is identifying biomedical research institutions, foundations and companies in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and some of the transitional economies from Central and Eastern Europe where we have learned by working with institutions in those countries, international organizations and private foundations that there is a need and potential to transfer different Public Health Service technologies including those related to HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. OTT has already had some initial success in transferring technologies to India, China and Mexico and some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Additional negotiations are currently going on with public and private institutions in Brazil, South Africa, India, and China. This effort is helping OTT/NIH meet an important part of its mission reducing the burden of diseases in developing countries. It is also expected that participating institutions would be able to address some of their crucial public health needs and to enhance the prevention and care of HIV/AIDS and related-diseases by having access and availability to key technologies.