Research Workshop: HIV/AIDS in Africa: Reviewing the Past, Understanding the Present & Charting the Future (to be held in Champaign, IL, July, 1999)

由于目前的预防计划未能阻止非洲艾滋病的浪潮，因此有必要制定更复杂和综合的跨学科范式来指导非洲的艾滋病预防工作。正是在这一背景下，并在目前就如何最好地处理艾滋病毒/艾滋病在非洲蔓延的问题进行辩论的情况下，组织了这次讲习班。其目的是审查过去，了解现在，并绘制非洲艾滋病流行病的未来。一小组非常熟悉非洲艾滋病/艾滋病毒问题的研究人员将参加讲习班。该小组将交流有关当代正在进行的研究的信息，并将确定未来对应对艾滋病流行病的知识进步至关重要的研究。该研讨会将制定一个研究议程，制定一个传播计划，以更广泛的有关学术界，并最终写一个国家的最先进的赠款提案，导致新的和更好的研究。这项活动的重要性在于，它将汇集由于不愿跨越学科界限而在很大程度上彼此分离的分析、研究和辩论的流。 伊利诺伊大学出版社将以书籍形式出版研讨会的会议记录。

With the failure of current prevention programs to stem the tide of AIDS in Africa, there is a compelling case for devising more complex and integrated inter-disciplinary paradigms to guide AIDS prevention efforts in Africa. It is within this context and the on-going debates on how best to deal with the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa that this workshop is organized. The objective is to examine the past, understand the present, and chart the future of the AIDS pandemic in Africa. A small group of researchers intimately familiar with the topic of AIDS/HIV in Africa will be involved in the workshop. The group will exchange information about contemporary, on-going research and will identify future research essential to knowledge advancement in dealing with the AIDS pandemic. The workshop will formulate a research agenda, devise a dissemination plan to the broader community of concerned academics, and, eventually write a state-of-the-art grant proposal leading to new and better research. This activity is significant in that it will bring together streams of analysis, research and debate that remain largely separated from each other because of a reluctance to cross disciplinary boundaries. The University of Illinois Press will publish proceedings of the workshop in book format.