Acronyms & Glossaries

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y

A

ACTG	AIDS Clinical Trials Group
ADE	AIDS Defining Events
ADR	Adverse Drug Reaction
AE	Adverse Event
AER	Adverse Event Report
AETC NEC	AIDS Education and Training Center National Evaluation Center
ARAC	AIDS Research Advisory Committee
ATN	Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions

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B

BRAG	Bioanalytical Method Validation Group
BSCG	Behavioral Science Consultative Group
BSIG	Behavioral Science Interest Group
BSWG	Behavioral Science Working Group
BTG	Be The Generation
BIPOC	Black Indigenous and People of Color

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C

CAB	Community Advisory Board
CAP	College of American Pathologists
CBAR	Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research
CCBR	Coordinating Centers for Biometric Research
CCWG	Cross CAB Working Group
CDASH	Clinical Data Acquisition Standards Harmonization
CDC	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDISC	Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium
CDMS	Clinical Data Management System
CFAR	Center for AIDS Research
CHAVI-ID	Center For HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology And Immunogen Discovery
CIS	Community Indicator Survey
CITI	Collaborative IRB Training Initiative
CLIA	Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments
CMS	Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
CNCPL	Cross-Network Clinical Pharmacology Laboratories Forum
COVID-19	Coronavirus Disease 2019
COI	Conflict of Interest
CP	Community Partners
CPQA	Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance
CPQAAB	Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance Advisory Board
CPQASC	Clinical Pharmacology Quality Assurance Steering Committee
CRF	Case Report Form
CRMB	Clinical Research Management Branch
CRMS	Clinical Research Management System
CRO	Contract Research Organization
CROI	Conference on Retroviruses And Opportunistic Infections
CRS	Clinical Research Site
CSI	Concept Systems Incorporated
CTA	Clinical Trial Agreement
CTD	Common Technical Document
CTU	Clinical Trial Units
CWG	Communications Working Group

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D

DAERS	DAIDS Adverse Experience Reporting System
DAIDS	Division of AIDS
DAIDS ES	Division of AIDS Enterprise System
DART	DAIDS Applied Research Training
DCLOT	DAIDS Clinical Laboratory Oversight Team
DMC	Data Management Center
DRTE	DAIDS Regional Training Events
DSMB	Data and Safety Monitoring Board

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E

EAE	Expedited Adverse Event
EDC	Electronic Data Capture
EMA	European Medicines Agency
EQA	External Quality Assessment
EWG	Evaluation Working Group

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F

FDA	Food And Drug Administration
FHI360	Family Health International
FOA	Funding Opportunity Announcement
FSTRF	Frontier Science

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G

GCAB	Global Community Advisory Board
GCLP	Good Clinical Laboratory Practice
GCP	Good Clinical Practice
GPP	Good Participatory Practice

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H

HAART	Highly Active AntiRetroviral Therapy
HANC	Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination
HBCU	Historically Black Colleges and Universities
HPTN	HIV Prevention Trials Network
HRCT	HIV Research Counseling and Testing
HSP	Human Subjects Protection
HVTN	HIV Vaccine Trials Network

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I

I/C	Institutes/Centers
IAS	International AIDS Society
ICAG	IQA Cryopreservation Proficiency Testing Advisory Group
ICH	International Council for Harmonisation
IEC	Independent Ethics Committee
IMPAACT	International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials group
IND	Investigational New Drug
INSIGHT	International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials
IPV	Intimate Partner Violence
IQA	Immunology Quality Assurance
IRB	Institutional Review Board

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J

JHU	Johns Hopkins University

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L

LAR	Legally Authorized Representative
LDMS	Laboratory Data Management Solution
LFG	Lab Focus Group
LOC	Leadership Operations Center
LPC	Laboratory Processing Chart
LPWG	Legacy Project Work Group
LTC	Laboratory Technologist Committee

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M

MCC	Medicines Control Council
MedDRA	Medical Dictionary For Regulatory Activities
MHRP	U.S. Military HIV Research Program
MMRW	Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
MP	Medical Officer
MSM	Men Who Have Sex With Men
MTN	Microbicide Trials Network

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N

NAESM	National AIDS Education And Services For Minorities
NCC	Network Coordinating Center
NDA	New Drug Application
NEC	Network Evaluation Committee
NHLS	National Health Laboratory Science
NHVREI	NIAID HIV Vaccine Research Education Initiative
NIAID	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NICHD	National Institute Of Child Health And Human Development
NIDA	National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIH	National Institutes of Health
NIMH	National Institute of Mental Health
NLG	Network Leaders Group
NMAC	National Minority AIDS Council

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O

OAR	Office of AIDS Research
OCICB	Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology
OCSO	Office of Clinical Site Oversight
OER	Office of Extramural Research
OHRP	Office for Human Research Protections
OPCRO	Office for Policy in Clinical Research Operations
ORA	Office of Regulatory Affairs

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P

PAB	Pharmaceutical Affairs Branch
PBMC	Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell
PEP	Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
PEPFAR	U.S. President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief
PF	Protocol Funds
PI	Principal Investigator
PID/Patid	Participant Identification Number
PMA	Premarket Approval
PNL	Primary Network Laboratory
POCAAN	People of Color Against AIDS Network
PPD	Pharmaceutical Product Development
PrEP	Pre-exposure Prophylaxis
PSLs	Pharmacology Specialty Laboratories
PT	Proficiency Testing

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Q

QA	Quality Assurance
QC	Quality Control

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R

RAB	Regulatory Affairs Branch
RCC	Regulatory Compliance Center
RCR	Responsible Conduct of Research
RFA	Request For Application
RFP	Request For Proposal
RPG	Research Project Grant
RRC	Risk Reduction Counseling
RSC	Regulatory Support Center

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S

SA MRC	South African Medical Research Council
SAE	Serious Adverse Event
SAG	Scientific Administration Group
SAHPRA	South African Health Products Regulatory Authority
SARS-CoV-2	Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
SBIR	Small Business Innovative Research
SCHARP	Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention
SCWG	Site Coordinators Working Group
SDAC	Statistical Data and Analysis Center
SDMC	Statistical and Data Management Centers
SDTM	Study Data Tabulation Model
SES	Subject Enrollment System
SID	Study Identification Number
SME	Subject Matter Expert
SMILE	Patient Safety Monitoring and International Laboratory Evaluation
SMQ	Standardized MedDRA Query
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure
SOS	Saving Ourselves Symposium
SPT	Safety and Pharmacovigilance Team
SWG	Strategic Working Group

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T

TaP/TasP	Treatment as Prevention
TB	Tuberculosis
TB TSG	Tuberculosis Transformative Science Group
TBLDWG	Tuberculosis Laboratory Diagnostics Working Group
TBTC	Tuberculosis Trials Consortium
TBTC CRAG	Tuberculosis Trials Consortium Community Research Advisors Group
TCUs	Tribal Colleges And Universities
TQM	Total Quality Management
TSDV	Targeted Source Document Verification

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U

UK NEQAS	United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service
UNAIDS	Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
USCHA	United States Conference on HIV/AIDS

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V

VMMC	Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision
VQAAB	Virology Quality Assurance Advisory Board
VTU	Vaccine Trials Unit

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W

WG	Working Group
WHISC	Women's Health Inter-Network Scientific Committee
WHO	World Health Organization
WHRC	Women's HIV Research Collaborative