Alcohol & HIV in Latin America

描述(申请人提供)：在不同的发展中世界区域中，拉丁美洲和加勒比地区可归因于酒精使用造成的伤害的全球负担最高，据估计，这些地区也有近200万人感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病。拟议的系列会议“拉丁美洲的酗酒与艾滋病毒”是通过迈阿密和哥伦比亚的研究人员的合作努力而发展起来的，并从2007年和2008年在哥伦比亚卡利成功举行的国际酗酒与艾滋病毒/艾滋病会议演变而来。在NIAAA的支持下，这些酒精和艾滋病毒/艾滋病会议为帮助构建拉丁美洲最关注的酒精和艾滋病毒研究问题奠定了基础，并有助于在研究人员、卫生保健工作者和政策制定者之间传播信息。根据前两次专题讨论会的经验教训，拟议会议的一个创造性特点将不仅包括2008年活动期间的互动式小组酒精与艾滋病毒研究讲习班，而且还包括在会议结束后帮助制定协作研究方案的在线教程。研究研讨会旨在促进美国和国际科学家之间的互动，促进潜在的研究合作，以减少艾滋病毒感染者、高危人群和受酒精使用问题影响的人群的并发症。拟议的“拉丁美洲的酒精与艾滋病毒”方案系列(2009-2011年)的目标是：1)建立一个传播信息的论坛，加强国际和合作努力，解决艾滋病毒/艾滋病中与酒精有关的问题；2)为酒精与艾滋病毒的研究环境提供一个框架，促进拉丁美洲各国的可持续研究能力。为实现这些目标，提议制定一项三年计划，纳入广泛的主题，以加强在具体领域的研究能力，涉及：a)预防；b)行为和精神共病，包括临床人群中的滥用和依赖；以及(C)与酗酒的生物医学后果有关的研究。计划举办一系列长期会议，以增进知识并提供可持续的研究能力，以探索更具体和不断发展的主题。这应该会刺激更有能力的国际社会，并促进合作研究，以加强酒精/艾滋病毒的预防和治疗努力。这些酒精/艾滋病毒领域的国内和国际专家将应邀出席主题会议并领导互动讲习班。拟议的系列会议将作为关于艾滋病的全面会议的一部分进行，该会议自1995年以来一直在卡利举行，由致力于支持艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防和治疗方案的公司赞助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Among different developing world regions, the global burden of harm attributable to alcohol use is highest for Latin America and the Caribbean, where nearly 2 million people are also estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS. The proposed conference series, "Alcohol & HIV in Latin America" has been developed through the collaborative efforts of researchers in Miami and Colombia, and has evolved from the successful International Alcohol & HIV/AIDS Meetings held in Cali, Colombia, in 2007 and 2008. These Alcohol & HIV/AIDS meetings, supported by NIAAA, formed the groundwork to help structure alcohol and HIV research issues of most concern in Latin America, and contributed to the dissemination of information among researchers, health care workers, and policy makers. Based on the lessons learned from the two prior symposia, a creative feature of the proposed meetings will include not only an interactive, small-group Alcohol & HIV Research Workshop as during the 2008 event, but an on-line tutorial after the conference to help develop collaborative research protocols. The Research Workshop is intended to facilitate interaction between U.S. and international scientists promoting potential research collaborations for reducing complications of HIV infected, at-risk, and affected populations with alcohol use problems. The objectives of the proposed "Alcohol & HIV in Latin America" program series (2009-2011) are to 1) Establish a forum for the dissemination of information that will enhance international and collaborative efforts to address alcohol-related problems in the context of HIV/AIDS, and 2) Provide a framework for the Alcohol & HIV research setting that will promote sustainable research capacity among countries in Latin America. To accomplish these goals, a three-year plan is proposed incorporating broad themes to enhance research capacity in specific areas involving: a) prevention; b) behavioral and psychiatric co-morbidities, including abuse and dependence within clinical populations, and (c) research related to the biomedical consequences of alcohol abuse. The long-term conference series has been planned to enhance knowledge and provide sustainable research capacity to explore more specific and evolving topics. This should stimulate a more capable international community and foster collaborative research to strengthen alcohol/HIV prevention and therapeutic efforts. Both national and international experts in these alcohol/HIV fields will be invited to present keynote sessions and lead the interactive workshops. The proposed conference series will be conducted as a part of the Comprehensive Meeting on AIDS, which has been taking place in Cali since 1995, under the sponsorship of the Corporaci?n de Lucha Contra el SIDA, an organization dedicated to the support of programs for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.