A network of medical centers around the country in which federally-funded clinical trials are conducted to test the safety and efficiency of experimental treatments for AIDS and HIV infection; studies funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

Adult AIDS Clinical Trial Group, sponsored by NIH

abbreviation, AIDS Clinical Trials Group

AIDS clinical trials group. a NIAID-sponsored group of medical centers, known as AIDS Clinical Trials Units (ACTU), that evaluate treatments for HIV disease and associated illnesses. ACTG studies are designated by number (e.g., ACTG 019).

AIDS Clinical Trials Group. A set of about 50 research centers around the country where federally funded drug trials are conducted.

(AIDS Clinical Trials Group) an organization of the National Institutes of Health that studies new therapies that fight human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

See Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group.

AIDS CLINICAL TRIALS GROUP. A clinical trials network of 59 medical centers, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, which conducts multicenter trials of treatments for AIDS/HIV and opportunistic infections.