The Sixth International Workshop on Oral Health and Disease in AIDS, Beijing, Chi

描述(申请人提供)：本提案申请资助，以促进发展中国家的青年和初级科学家参加将于2009年4月21-25日在北京举行的第六届世界艾滋病口腔健康与疾病研讨会，中国。这是该工作坊第二次在亚洲举办。在东南亚正处于艾滋病流行日益严重的中心之际，这一点尤其合适。我们正在申请资金，以支持一些个人旅行补助金，以支付部分注册费用，其中包括住宿和餐饮(1000美元)，以及为每个被选中的年轻或初级科学家支付往返长途汽车和当地交通的部分旅行费用(最高可达1000美元)。由于发展中国家这类科学家出席这种级别会议的资金极其有限，这一请求在很大程度上是为了支持外国与会者。事实证明，国际讲习班是非常宝贵的，因为它们使在该领域工作的临床医生和科学家能够在个人层面上交流想法和信息。东南亚社区将从为我们的研究人员、大学讲师、临床医生和学生带来的最新诊断和治疗信息中受益匪浅。研讨会将使审议具体的亚洲问题成为可能，讨论为解决这些问题正在采取的步骤，并提供替代办法。这些发现将作为公认杂志的特别补充发表，并将包括一套关于口腔艾滋病毒研究的建议和护理指南。特别重要的是，讲习班的设计和举办是为了确保我们解决这一领域面临的关键挑战。讲习班领导人和与会者将确定阻碍在口腔艾滋病毒/艾滋病和相关科学的具体领域取得进展的障碍，并将为今后的研究拟定一套具体的建议和方向。这份外地未来议程是前五次世界讲习班的重要和一贯成果。每一项都通知了当前和有抱负的调查人员以及NIDCR等供资机构。 公共卫生相关性：预计那些从这项拟议的会议赠款中获得支持的人将把在研讨会上获得的知识带回并应用于他们自己的项目，从而为他们自己国家的艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究、护理和教育做出贡献；特别是在那些最迫切需要改进的国家。艾滋病疫情已经发展成为一枚定时炸弹，将对中国和东南亚人口以及这些国家的经济产生巨大影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests funding to facilitate the attendance and active participation of young and junior scientists from developing countries at The 6th World Workshop on Oral Health and Disease in AIDS to be held in Beijing, China April 21-25, 2009. This is the second time the Workshop will be held in Asia. It is particularly appropriate at this time with Southeast Asia being in a growing center of the AIDS pandemic. We are applying for funds to support a number of individual travel grants to partially cover registration, which includes accommodation and meals ($1000), and partial travel expenses for coach round-trip plus local transportation (up to $1000) for each of the young or junior scientists selected. Because of the extreme limitation on funds for such scientists from developing countries to attend meetings of this caliber, the request is intended in large part to support foreign participants. The International Workshops have proved to be invaluable in that they enable clinicians and scientists working in the field to exchange ideas and information at personal level. SE Asian communities will benefit enormously from the latest information on diagnosis and treatment brought fresh to our researchers, university lecturers, clinicians and students. The workshop will make it possible to consider specific Asian problems, to discuss the steps being taken to address these problems and to offer alternative approaches. The findings will be published as a special supplement to a recognized journal and will include a set of recommendations for oral HIV research and guidelines for care. Of particular importance is that the Workshop has been designed and will be conducted so as to ensure that we address the key challenges that lie ahead of this field. Workshop leadership and participants will define the obstacles that impede progress in specific areas of oral HIV/AIDS and cognate science and will prepare a set of specific recommendations and directions for future research. This Agenda for the Future of the Field has been a crucial and consistent product of the previous five World Workshops. Each has informed current and aspiring investigators as well as funding agencies such as the NIDCR. Public Health Relevance: It is anticipated that those receiving support from this proposed conference grant will take the knowledge acquired at the Workshop back and apply it in their own programs, thus contributing to HIV/AIDS research, care and education in their own countries; particularly in those where such improvements are most sorely needed. The AIDS epidemic has developed into a time bomb that will have dramatic effects on China and South East Asian populations as well as the economies of these countries.