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Indicator: 1
[Output]
Measurements in/of Recommendations Made
Relationships: Department of Health and Human Services - Narrower_Than
Other Information:
Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council
| Type |
Target |
Actual |
| StartDate |
2010-10-01 |
2010-10-01 |
| EndDate |
2011-09-30 |
2011-09-30 |
| Number |
n/a |
65 |
| Description |
Unspecified |
The OARAC provides advice and recommendations to the Director, NIH and the Secretary, regarding programs and policies intended
to promote the highest quality of research, prevention, care, and healing of individuals with HIV/AIDS. Members continue to
participate in overseeing the development and implementation of the comprehensive, NIH Plan for HIV-Related Research based
on scientific consensus relating to the most compelling scientific priorities and opportunities that will lead to better therapies
and prevention strategies for HIV disease. In FY 2009, the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council (OARAC) addressed issues
of increasing importance to AIDS research: nutrition and how it relates to the clinical management of HIV both in the developed
and developing world; and HIV prevention research for women. One of OARAC’s meetings focused on Nutrition and the Clinical
Management of HIV. A workshop entitled, Identifying Priority Research Questions on the Interaction of Nutrition and the Clinical
Management of HIV/AIDS, co-sponsored by the Office of AIDS Research (OAR), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), immediately
preceded the OARAC meeting, and OARAC members were invited to attend. The recommendations from the Workshop were presented
at the OARAC meeting and the OARAC members identified several priorities for future research including interdisciplinary research
on nutrition and HIV/AIDS. This would form the basis for the development of standardized measures for the assessment of nutritional
status, particularly in resource constrained settings. The OARAC noted the importance of attracting new investigators to nutrition
and AIDS research. The next OARAC meeting was focused on HIV Prevention Research for Women. The speakers at this meeting described
multiple biological, social, and behavioral factors that contribute to HIV risk in women and girls and reviewed the state
of the science of current prevention efforts. The discussions at the meeting focused on recommendations regarding approaches
for the integration of HIV risk and prevention research in women, the need for additional biomedical and behavioral research
on adolescents in the U.S. and internationally, and development and evaluation of comprehensive prevention strategies for
women and girls. At each OARAC meeting, the Council received an update on the activities of the five Working Groups, sponsored
under the auspices of the OARAC, responsible for the development of state-of-the-art federal guidelines for the medical management
of HIV disease and its associated coinfections and opportunistic infections.
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