The ACCORD study was sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S, and was conducted across the U.S. and Canada.

ACCORD研究由美国国家健康机构(NIH)分支的国家之心肺血机构(NHLBI)赞助，在美国和加拿大进行。

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) established in September the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (to be known as NIMHD).

美国国家卫生研究所(MIH)九月设立了国家特定人群健康及状况研究所(亦即NIMHD)。

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Fortunately, through the combined support of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other US Government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and others, progress in developing new technologies that prevent HIV infection has been notable.

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Overall responsibility for the design and implementation of the study was given to the National Institute of Child Health and Development, with input from a number of advisory and oversight committees, the Director of the NIH, and with the involvement of other government agencies (the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Environmental Protection Agency).

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In 2002 the Institute of Medicine (which is not part of the NIH, but is the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences) called for the creation of a National Vaccine Authority that would have sweeping responsibilities, including market research, the establishment of priorities, control of intellectual-property rights, the conduct of in-house research and development and the financing of clinical trials of candidate vaccines.

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