AIDS 2010 international conference エイズ国際会議2010

I hosted a friend from Taiwan over the weekend at my place who is attending this conference from the next week. Due to his assist I was able to enjoy dinner party and pre-conference sessions which were concentrated on children who are suffering from AIDS in the world. I saw lots of people from many different countries in the world. While I was listening to some presensations a certain idea came up to me. Many organisations spend lots of money to improve current situation and sometimes (or many times) it will not work as expected. And many concern how to get financed. When I went to have lunch with him, seeing many cooks were working there and people serving for the guests. Dishes are very good and may cost more than 30 or some including sweets. I remember the dinner party the day before that many food were left uneaten when I left the place. My feeling finally told me that it is actually the wrong direction to hold such a conference in a city like Vienna. I heard that attendees from Africa or India were invited. I told him honestly that why they did not think of holding such the conference in Africa or in India, where people are really having problem with the disease and can maybe build some buildings which can be used for educational reasons afterwards. They can hire people there for the conference and money will be infused in the country any way. And exactly then, he stood up and took pictures of dishes and told me that he wants to show other people how people are spending so much unnecessary money on that. He fully agreed with me and also mentioned that countries such as Hungary or Romania might have been the right place within Europe.

This kind of issue is quite different from what I usually treat, but there is a common rule. Resources should be used in proper and right way, time, money, human and etc. With technical or scientific issues, many this are quite clear; if we would procure a wrong tool, it can never be used. We cannot dig a hole when we buy a slicer. But this kind of human issue, success factor is highly dependent on human for their behavior or motivation. Which kind of help is really expected at the site will be sometimes forgot and people would just discussing for their own benefit. Most of the cases, just a small help is enough for people living there. It was a very good experience for me to think about something totally different from the one I usually do.