OHAM International Activities
The global burden of people living with HIV is estimated to be 33.3 million.1 The developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, is the region most affected by the epidemic. These same regions are also experiencing a continued increase in AIDS-defining malignancies; as access to antiretroviral therapy becomes more widespread and people are no longer dying from opportunistic infections, non-AIDS defining malignancies will begin to have a major impact. A number of OHAM activities are addressing this global burden of HIV/AIDS and HIV-associated malignancies, either as their main focus or as part of a larger endeavor. The OHAM activities with a substantial international component include:
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In January 2007, the AIDS Malignancy Program supported the 1st Workshop in India on Research Methodologies for Study of HIV/AIDS Associated Malignancies. |
- Strengthening Capacity for Research for HIV-Associated Malignancies in Africa
- AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP)
- AIDS Malignancy Consortium
- Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR)
- U.S.-India Activities under the Joint Statement on Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS
- The International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)
- AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource
1. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), "Report on the global AIDS epidemic: Executive summary," 2005, http://data.unaids.org/pub/GlobalReport/2008/JC1511_GR08_ExecutiveSummary_en.pdf (accessed 27 April 2009).
