Grant: Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: Infection and Immunity

This workshop will meet the objective to develop discrete approaches to address HIV/AIDS among people from countries where HIV is endemic. Relevant stakeholders will discuss initiatives specifically aimed at HIV prevention in African and Caribbean populations in Canada and elsewhere. This event will: a) Address specific questions or problems important to infection and immunity health research in Canada, with the purpose of reaching a consensus on recommendations or conclusions leading to an improved focus on research issues. This will be achieved through knowledge exchange and the presentation of relevant findings related to prevention of HIV in the African and Caribbean Diaspora in Canada; b)Support scientific educational symposia with areas of importance to a significant number of Canadian investigators and having direct relevance to infection and immunity health research. The workshop will present relevant information related to prevention in the Sub-Saharan and Caribbean Diaspora in Canada in order to inform practice, front-line services, care and policy. In this way, issues relating to prevention of HIV infection among these populations will be addressed at every level;and c)Facilitate knowledge exchange through limited support of scientific meetings and conferences with content focused primarily in areas of infection and immunity. The prevention focus of the workshop successfully fulfills this objective by providing space to discuss challenges and successes of prevention efforts. This event will address the following research initiatives of the institute in the area of HIV/AIDS: From prevention and therapy to addressing global health challenges and specifically Health systems, services and policy and Prevention technologies and interventions. It will examine challenges to service delivery and explore how to render health systems more accessible to the aforementioned populations which will help inform policy makers, researchers and community organizations.