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）： 根据联合国最新统计，2008年底艾滋病毒/艾滋病感染者人数为3340万。撒哈拉以南非洲的艾滋病病例最多，其次是亚洲。亚洲占世界人口的60%，在艾滋病患者人数方面有可能超过非洲。印度占艾滋病毒感染者的大约一半，由于一些地区缺乏足够的卫生资源，印度的情况特别严重。有10名美国-AITRP获奖者在印度工作，他们在特定地点进行艾滋病毒研究培训。印度和美国的艾滋病研究人员还没有召开一次会议，重点是建立合作关系，吸引新的研究人员（医学博士/博士）进入艾滋病毒/艾滋病领域，并讨论预防艾滋病毒传播的最新战略。这里提议的会议的具体目标主要是引起对更广泛的印美网络、合作和指导新研究人员的兴趣，其次是就治疗和预防艾滋病毒感染的最佳战略达成共识。为了实现这些目标，在这次会议上，建议聚集美国-印度AITRP艾滋病/艾滋病毒研究人员小组作为会议领导人和发言人。参与者（上限为200人）将包括来自美国和印度Fogarty资助项目的HIV研究人员以及其他选定的特邀讲师和10个选定的新机构（教师，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，将包括基础流行病学、病毒学、艾滋病毒免疫病理学、翻译（疫苗、杀微生物剂、诊断等）和为期一天的研究培训主题。这一形式将包括一系列专题讨论会、交互式会议和海报会议，讨论的主题包括分子病毒学、艾滋病毒流行病学、预防传播和耐药性问题、如何在资源有限的条件下提供艾滋病毒/艾滋病服务以及确定特定人群的风险因素。专题讨论会将由国际公认的专家主持。还将包括关于诊断和治疗进展、艾滋病筛查和咨询以及赠款写作的讲习班。艾滋病毒/艾滋病会议的记录将发表在《全球传染病杂志》上。预计TRAI会议将导致传播艾滋病/艾滋病毒研究的最新成果，揭示研究培训的新方向和差距。此外，它将导致在美印AITRP和其他机构之间建立新的印美网络和合作，以应对任何已确定的挑战。 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，直到最近，NIH Fogarty已经在印度授予了10个不同的艾滋病/艾滋病毒国际研究培训项目（AITRP），与不同的艾滋病/艾滋病毒地点合作。然而，这些AITRP没有共同聚会讨论研究培训的相关问题。这次拟议中的会议旨在首次在一个大伞下聚集在一起，分享最新的艾滋病/艾滋病毒信息，讨论研究培训方面的挑战和机遇，并开始在印度建立网络和开展合作。