Meeting of Representatives from research laboratories and
institutions working with UNESCO in the fields of AIDS research and prevention.
UNESCO Venice Office 5-7 September 1998, Venice, Italy

Scientific Meeting of representatives from research laboratories, institutes and research and clinical centres working within the Network of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, the European Network “Man Against Virus”, and the UNESCO-CNR cooperative framework.

Laboratories and Institutions attending the meeting:

- Institute Pasteur (France), - Institute Armand Frapper (Canada), - Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), - Russian Academy of Sciences (Instituteof Biochemistry,
Institute of Protein) Russian Federation, - Integrated Centre for Bioclinic Research on AIDS (CIRBS) (Hospital St. Joseph) Paris, France - World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, Paris, France - Integrated Centre for Bioclinic Research of Abidjan (CIRBA), Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, - International Centre for AIDS and Emerging & Re-emerging Infections (ICAERI) at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy.

CNR-UNESCO Workshop
"Microbial escape mechanisms and new therapies for AIDS and Tuberculosis",
Ischia, Italy 18 -20 April 1999

The Conference, besides UVO-ROSTE, was organised and supported by the International Centre for AIDS and other Emerging & Re-emerging Infections IRCCS "L.Spallanzani", National Research Council (CNR), World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy the University of Naples Federico II, The Unit for Research, Diagnosis and Prevention of Tuberculosis A.O Monaldi, Naples and the Regione Campania.This meeting was localy organised by the Unit for Research and Diagnosis of Tuberculosis (Monaldi Hospital, Naples). Participants invited to this meeting consisted in 50 experts from France, Italy, Germany, Russia, UK, USA, Spain, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

4th International Workshop on HIV, Cells of Macrophage Lineage, and other Reservoirs.
1-4 December, 1999 Villa Pitiana Domini, Florence, Italy

The meeting was held with the UNESCO sponsorship and organised by Prof. C. F. Perno (University of Rome "TorVergata").
The program of this workshop focused on the issue of reservoirs of HIV, particularly relevant in view of the potential eradication of the virus from the body. Other than this, viral dynamics in macrophages and other reservoirs, infection of macrophages of the central nervous system, immunological modifications related to disfunction of HIV-infected macrophages, dual infection of macrophages by HIV and other pathogens, inhibition of virus replication in macrophages and other reservoirs of HIV, were the major topics covered by the workshop.

CNR-UNESCO Meetings

Host-parasite relationships:
pathogenesis and new strategies for immunotherapeutics development 9th march 2001
National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani", Rome



8 March 2001
Monaldi Hospital, Naples
Molecular bases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease