Below is a list of common acronyms and terms used in adolescent HIV research and within the ATN.

AC

Analytic Committee

Adherence

In the medical community, adherence means following the directions of a medication and taking it as prescribed over time.

ATN

Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions

ART

Antiretroviral Therapy

ARV

Antiretroviral

CAB

Community Advisory Board

CARES

Comprehensive Adolescent Recruitment & Engagement Studies. CARES is a research program made up of multiple studies that is part of the ATN.

CC

Coordinating Center

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CEPAC

Cost Effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications Model

Cohort

A type of study sample where the participants have a similar characteristic.

CRM

Clinical Research Monitoring

DAIDS

NIH Division of AIDS

DASH

Data and Specimen Hub

DSMB

Data Safety and Monitoring Board

Dyad

Refers to a group of two people. In research, it means participants are grouped in twos, such as couples.

EC

Executive Committee

EDM

Electronic Dose Monitoring

EHR

Electronic Health Record

ESP

External Scientific Panel. This is typically a group of experts from different backgrounds and institutions who lend valuable outside perspective and guidance to an organization’s activities, such as those of a scientific research program.

FDA

Food and Drug Administration

FP

Family Planning

GCP

Good Clinical Practice

HCV
Hepatitis C Virus, sometimes shortened to HepC.

HHS

Department of Health and Human Services, sometimes referred to as DHHS

IAA

IRB Authorization Agreements

IMPAACT

International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network

IND

Investigational New Drug

IRB

Institutional Review Board

ISC

Implementation Science Core

ISM

Independent Study Monitor

iTech

UNC/Emory Center for Innovative Technology. iTech is a research program made up of multiple studies that is part of the ATN.

MC

Modeling Core

MOP/MOPP

Manual of Operating Procedures, or Manual of Policies & Procedures

MSM

Men Who Have Sex with Men

NCAB

National Community Advisory Board

NCRL

National CAB Representative Liaison

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

NIMHD

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

OI

Opportunistic Infection

OMB

NIH Office of Management and Budget

P4P

Planning4Prep. P4P is an ATN study.

PCC

Protocol Concept Capsule

PCS

Protocol Concept Sheet

PEP

Post-Exposure Prophylaxis

PI

Principal Investigator

PLWH

People Living with HIV

PM

Project Manager

PO

Project Officer

PrEP

Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis

Protocol

A document that clearly defines the structure of a clinical research study. It is the plan that project staff follow day to day, and it provides the guidelines for conducting the trial.

QNS

Query Notification System

RA

Research Agenda Committee

RCT

Random Controlled Trial

RFP

Request for Proposal

SAP

Statistical Analysis Plan

SC

Scientific Committee

SMC

Study Monitoring Committee

SMP

Study Monitoring Plan

Serodiscordant

When one person in a relationship is living with HIV and the other person is not (also known as a discordant couple).

Serostatus

A medical term that refers to whether or not someone has antibodies in the blood. In the case of HIV, if there are HIV antibodies in a person’s blood, it is an indicator that the person is living with HIV. That person’s serostatus would be seropositive.

SIU

Scale It Up, a research program made up of multiple studies that is part of the ATN.

SMC

Safety Monitoring Committee

SMS

Short Message Service, or text messaging

SOC

Standard of Care

SOPs

Standard Operating Procedures

SRV

Subject Recruitment Venue

SSP

Study-specific Procedures Manual

STI

Sexually-Transmitted Infection

TasP

Treatment as Prevention

TERA

Triggered Escalating Real-time Adherence. TERA is an ATN study.

Treatment Naïve

When someone living with HIV hasn’t ever taken antiretroviral (ARV) medication.

U=U

Undetectable = Untransmittable

U19

A type of NIH research grant.

U24

A type of NIH research grant.

VL

Viral Load

W2P

Work2Prevent. W2P is an ATN study.

WHO

World Health Organization

YAC

Youth Advisory Council

YCAB

Youth Community Advisory Board

YLH

Youth Living with HIV

YLWH

Youth Living with HIV

YMSM

Young Men Who Have Sex with Men

YTW

Young Transgender Women

YTWSM

Young Transgender Women Who Have Sex with Men