Conference: Advances in Translational Research in AIDS/HIV in INDIA

会议：印度艾滋病/艾滋病毒转化研究进展

• 批准号: 8071881
• 负责人: Shyam S Mohapatra
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-01 至 2011-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8071881
• 关键词: AIDS therapy; AIDS/HIV problem; Accounting; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; Area; Asia; Award; Basic Science; Biology; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Consensus; Core Facility; Counseling; Decision Making; Diagnostic; Drug resistance; Educational workshop; Epidemiology; Faculty; Familiarity; Fostering; Funding; General Population; Goals; Grant; Guidelines; HIV; HIV Infections; Health Resources; Incentives; India; Individual; Industry; Infection; Institution; International; Journals; Lead; Learning; Life; Location; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Minority; Molecular Virology; Participant; Policies; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Press Releases; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Risk Factors; Scientist; Screening procedure; Series; Services; Site; Students; Time; Training; Training Programs; Translating; Translational Research; United States National Institutes of Health; Vaccines; Weather; Work; Writing; design; immunopathology; interdisciplinary collaboration; interest; lecturer; microbicide; news; posters; prevent; programs; public health relevance; statistics; symposium; transmission process; virology

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): According to the latest UN statistics, the number of people living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2008 was 33.4 million. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest number of AIDS cases, followed by Asia. With 60% of the world's population, Asia has the potential to surpass Africa in number of people living with AIDS. The situation in India, which accounts for about half of the HIV infections, is especially serious given the lack of adequate health resources in some areas. There are ten US-AITRP awardees working in India who conduct research training on HIV in specific sites. There has not been a conference of Indian and U.S. AIDS researchers focusing on building collaborations, attracting new investigators MDs/PhDs to the field of HIV/AIDS and discussing the latest strategies for preventing HIV transmission. The specific aims of the conference proposed here are primarily to generate interest in broader Indo-US networking, collaboration and mentoring of new researchers and secondarily to reach a consensus on best strategies for treating and preventing HIV infection. To accomplish these goals, in this conference, it is proposed to gather the US-India AITRP groups of AIDS/HIV researchers to act as session leaders and speakers for the conference. The participants (capped at 200) will include HIV researchers from Fogarty grant-sponsored projects in the U.S. and India and other selected invited lecturer and 10 selected new Institutions (faculty, students, other researchers, clinicians and/or post-doctoral fellows). The three-day conference is to be held in January of 2011 in Goa, India will include sessions in basic epidemiology, virology, immunopathology of HIV, the translational (vaccines, microbicides, diagnostics etc) and a one-day research training theme. The format will include a series of symposia, interactive and poster sessions on translational themes including topics such as molecular virology, HIV epidemiology, issues in preventing transmission and drug resistance, how to provide HIV/AIDS services under resource-limited conditions and identifying risk factors in specific populations. The symposia will be moderated by internationally recognized experts. Workshops on advances in diagnostics and therapy, AIDS screening and counseling and grant writing will also be included. The proceedings of the HIV/AIDS conference will be published in the Journal of Global Infectious Diseases. It is expected that the TRAI Conference will lead to dissemination of latest in AIDS/HIV research revealing new directions and gaps in research training. Also, it will lead to building new indo-US networking and collaborations among the US-India AITRPs and other institutions to tackle any identified challenges. Public Health Relevance: AIDS/HIV is a major problem in Indian subcontinent and the NIH-Fogarty has awarded ten different AIDS/HIV International Research Training Programs (AITRPs) in India working with different AIDS/HIV locations until recently. However, there has not been a common gathering of these AITRPs to discuss relevant issues in research training. This proposed conference aims to bring together for the first time under one umbrella to share the latest AIDS/HIV information, to discuss the challenges and opportunities in research training and to begin networking and collaborations in India.

描述（由申请人提供）： 根据联合国最新的统计数据，2008年底患有艾滋病毒/艾滋病的人数为3340万。撒哈拉以南非洲的艾滋病案件数量最多，其次是亚洲。亚洲有60％的人口，有可能超越非洲的艾滋病人数。鉴于某些地区缺乏足够的健康资源，印度的局势约占艾滋病毒感染的一半。在印度，有十名在印度工作的美国艾滋病学院获奖者，他们在特定地点进行了有关艾滋病毒的研究培训。没有举行专注于建立合作的印度和美国艾滋病研究人员会议，吸引了新的研究人员MDS/PHD到HIV/AIDS领域，并讨论了预防HIV传播的最新策略。这里提出的会议的具体目的主要是为了对新研究人员的更广泛的Indo-US网络，合作和指导产生兴趣，其次是对治疗和预防HIV感染的最佳策略达成共识。为了实现这些目标，在本次会议上，有人建议收集艾滋病/艾滋病毒研究人员的美国 - 印度AITRP团体，以担任会议的会议领导者和发言人。参与者（限制为200）将包括来自美国和印度的Fogarty Grant赞助项目的艾滋病毒研究人员，以及其他选定的受邀讲师以及10家精选的新机构（教职员工，学生，其他研究人员，临床医生和/或博士后研究员）。为期三天的会议将于2011年1月在印度果阿举行，包括基本流行病学，病毒学，艾滋病毒免疫病理学，转化（疫苗，微生物，诊断等）和为期一天的研究培训主题。该格式将包括一系列关于转化主题的研讨会，交互式和海报会议，包括分子病毒学，HIV流行病学等主题，预防传播和耐药性方面的问题，如何在资源有限的条件下提供HIV/AIDS服务以及在特定人群中识别风险因素。座谈会将由国际认可的专家主持。还将包括有关诊断和治疗，艾滋病筛查和咨询以及赠款写作进展的研讨会。艾滋病毒/艾滋病会议的会议记录将发表在《全球传染病杂志》上。预计TRAI会议将导致最新的艾滋病/艾滋病毒研究揭示研究培训中的新方向和差距。此外，这将导致在美国印度AITRP和其他机构之间建立新的Indo-US网络和合作，以应对任何确定的挑战。 公共卫生相关性： 艾滋病/艾滋病毒是印度次大陆的一个主要问题，NIH-Fogarty在印度授予了十个不同的艾滋病/艾滋病毒国际研究培训计划（AITRPS），直到最近才在不同的艾滋病/艾滋病毒地点工作。但是，这些AITRP的共同聚会并没有讨论研究培训中的相关问题。拟议的会议旨在首次将一个伞下汇集，以分享最新的艾滋病/艾滋病毒信息，以讨论研究培训的挑战和机遇，并开始在印度进行网络和协作。