Alcohol, Sexuality and HIV Research and Prevention in India

描述(由申请者提供)：这份题为“印度的酒精、性行为和艾滋病毒研究与预防”的U13会议提案请求支持两个国际研讨会，这两个研讨会将使印度和美国的研究人员聚集在一起，审查和介绍印度酒精使用和艾滋病毒相互交集的现有研究成果，并启动关于制定关于这一主题的国家研究议程的讨论。这项提案是印度国家酒精滥用和酒精中毒研究所与印度和美国的研究机构达成的一项合作协议，旨在建立一个全国性的研究和政策平台，解决酒精在助长印度艾滋病流行方面的作用。这是在两国关键因素汇聚的时候发生的，这些因素包括呼吁改善印度的艾滋病毒研究基础设施、印度艾滋病毒快速增长的高潜力、酒精消费速度大幅加快、美国-印度新达成的联合资助艾滋病毒研究的协议，以及NIAAA对围绕降低与酒精有关的艾滋病毒风险的国际合作的兴趣。这些研讨会旨在为美国和印度的艾滋病毒和酒精研究人员提供机会，分享信息，合作和构建联合研究和测试概念模型，建设研究能力，并让NIAAA作为印度国家多学科交叉研究议程的贡献者，专注于酒精、风险行为和艾滋病毒。第一个研讨会将侧重于流行病学、历史和描述性研究，将于2008年在孟买举行；第二个研讨会将讨论印度酒精和艾滋病毒干预研究的干预科学方法和结果，将于2009年在德里举行。合作组织包括社区研究所和康涅狄格大学卫生中心(美国)、国际人口科学研究所(IIPS)和国际妇女研究中心(德里)，印度医学统计委员会和全印度医学科学研究所(AIIMS)协调投入。一个由所有这些机构的高级研究人员组成的协调委员会将最后确定研讨会，并支持在同行评议的期刊上发表文章。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This U13 Conference Proposal entitled "Alcohol, Sexuality and HIV Research and Prevention in India" requests support for two international seminars that will bring together Indian and American researchers to review and present existing research results on the intersection of alcohol use and HIV in India and initiate discussions on the development of a national research agenda on this topic. The proposal represents a cooperative agreement between the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and Indian and U.S. research institutions to build a national research and policy platform that addresses the role of alcohol in fueling the AIDS epidemic in India. It occurs at a time when critical factors converge in both countries including the call for improvements in HIV research infrastructure in India, India's high potential for rapid increases in HIV, dramatically accelerating rates of alcohol consumption, a new U.S.-Indo agreement to conduct jointly funded HIV research and NIAAA's interest in international collaborations around reducing alcohol related HIV risks. The seminars aim to provide an opportunity for U.S. and Indian HIV and alcohol researchers to share information, collaborate and construct joint studies and test conceptual models, to build research capacity and to engage NIAAA as a contributor to an Indian national multilevel interdisciplinary research agenda focused on alcohol, risk behavior and HIV. The first seminar will focus on epidemiology, history and descriptive studies, and will be held in Mumbai in 2008; the second will address intervention science methodology and results of intervention research on alcohol and HIV in India, and will be held in Delhi in 2009. Collaborating organizations include the Institute for Community Research and the University of Connecticut Health Center (U.S.), the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), and the International Center for Research on Women (Delhi), with coordinating input from the Indian Council for Medical Statistics and the All-India Institute for Medical Sciences (AIIMS). A coordinating committee consisting of senior researchers from all of these institutions will finalize the seminars and support publications in peer reviewed journals.