XVIII International AIDS Conference, 18–23 July 2010, Vienna
Treatment access will always dominate the programme of World AIDS Conferences. Since the Durban conference in 2000, every scientific advance at this meeting is rightly seen in the context of which...
View Article10th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, 7–11 November...
The ‘Glasgow conference’ is held every two years and attracts a broad interest from both European and US clinicians and researchers. This year the conference abstracts are already posted online as a...
View Article41st Union World Conference on Lung Health, 11-15 November 2010, Berlin
Organised by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), this conference is the largest annual lung health event focusing on the issues as they affect low- and middle-...
View Article1st International Workshop on HIV and Women, 10-11 January 2011, Washington
Introduction: what took so long? Polly Clayden, HIV i-Base Thirty years into the history of the epidemic, the 1st International Workshop on HIV and Women was convened in Washington by Virology...
View Article18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 27...
This annual conference remains the most important large scientific HIV meeting and is notable for making web casts of oral presentations and lectures rapidly available. Abstracts are online in a...
View Article18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 27...
Introduction Our final reports from this important conference are: Monitoring treatment in resource limited settings: results from PHPT-3 and Stratall ANRS12110/ESTER trials DART: high rates of viral...
View Article6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention 17–20 July...
Introduction The biannual IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention is more scientifically focused than the World AIDS Conference held in alternate years and is considerably smaller....
View Article6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, 17–20 July...
This issue of HTB includes further reports from IAS 2011. The conference has an open-access searchable abstract database online. http://www.ias2011.org/ The ‘Programme at a glance’ can be searched for...
View Article51st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)...
The annual ICAAC conference in recent years has had a reduced focus on HIV research but still includes studies that are interesting to highlight. Unfortunately the conference restricts public access to...
View Article13th European AIDS Conference (EACS), Belgrade, Serbia, 12–15 October 2011
The 13th European AIDS Conference was held in Belgrade from 12-15 October. Unfortunately abstracts are not yet available online, and although webcasts, podcasts and PowerPoint slides are available...
View Article5th HIV Persistence Workshop on HIV Reservoirs, 6-9 December 2011, West Indies
Richard Jefferys, TAG Introduction This meeting had a limited numbers of attendees and brought together an impressive group of leading researchers. The abstract book and late breaker abstracts are...
View Article2nd International Workshop on HIV & Women, 9-10 January 2012, Bethesda, USA
This was the second year for this new workshop focused on research into the impact of gender on HIV and related health issues. It is very helpful that the meeting organisers have posted most of the...
View Article19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 5–8...
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) conference is probably the most important annual scientific HIV meeting and it is also one of the most accessible for people who are...
View Article13th International workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV Therapy, 16–18...
This important annual workshop always includes studies that are not presented at other meetings and it is appreciated that the organisers have made both the abstract book and many of the presentations...
View Article20th International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop, 9–13 June 2012, Sitges
This international meeting on drug resistance now covers both HIV and hepatitis and usually includes studies presented here prior to other HIV conferences. Several of the presentations are now posted...
View Article14th International Workshop on Co-morbidities and Adverse Drug Reactions...
This year, the multiple meetings held prior to the IAS conference contributed to slightly lower attendance at this long establish meeting with an interest in the complications in HIV and HIV/HCV...
View Article19th IAS World AIDS Conference, 22–25 July 2012, Washington
Over the last decade, the International AIDS Society (IAS) World AIDS Conference has increasingly focused on social rather than scientific aspects of HIV and this trend continued this year. About 85%...
View Article19th IAS World AIDS Conference, 22–25 July 2012, Washington
Simon Collins, HIV i-Base In this issue, includes further coverage from this important meeting. Abstracts are easily accessed on-line through a searchable ‘Programme at a glance’ database on the...
View Article52nd International Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy...
The annual ICAAC conferences tend to have such a reduced focus on HIV in recent years that i-Base rarely prioritises attending this meeting. Also, unlike most HIV meetings, only limited access is...
View Article43rd Union World Conference on Lung Health, 13-17 November 2012, Kuala...
The long running International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Conference was held in Kuala Lumpar this year. The sessions on paediatrics were excellent and it was good to see them in the...
View Article3rd International Workshop on HIV and Women, 14-15 January 2013, Toronto, Canada
The International Workshop on HIV and women is held annually in January and is now in its third year. This year’s meeting included several useful overviews notably on contraception and the risk of...
View Article20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 3-6...
The annual CROI continues to be the most important HIV scientific meeting covering the diversity of basic and clinical science. Also, both the main conference and a pre-meeting programme of lectures...
View ArticleInternational Workshop on HIV and Hepatitis Virus Drug Resistance and...
This annual meeting had developed from its previous focus on HIV drug resistance to include resistance to hepatitis C and developments in cure research. The meeting has a diverse and interesting...
View Article5th International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics, 28-29 June 2013, Kuala Lumpur
The International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics is into its fifth year now an annual fixture, held immediately before the IAS conference. The meeting provides an excellent opportunity to present work on a...
View Article7th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, 30 June – 3...
Simon Collins, HIV i-Base It was somewhat unnerving, in an understated way, that the IAS news was dominated by the launch of the WHO 2013 treatment guidelines, upstaging another WHO publication...
View Article7th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, 30 June – 3...
The following reports conclude our coverage from the IAS meeting help in Kuala Lumpur in July. Many of the key oral presentations are available as webcasts, but unfortunately not all. Online coverage...
View Article53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy...
As HIV research is only a small part of ICAAC these reports of summaries from the meeting are largely thanks to NATAP.org. The conference only has limited online coverage but this includes access to a...
View Article6th International Workshop on HIV Persistence During Therapy, 3-6 December...
This workshop has been held every two years since 2003. Details from the meeting are on the conference website, together with free access to the abstract book and selected presentations from the...
View Article17th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), 7-11...
ICASA is the biggest HIV/AIDS conference in Africa – attended by about 10,000 people from all over the continent. The scope of the conference is wide so there are limited scientific presentations....
View Article4th International Workshop on HIV & Women, 13-14 January 2014, Washington
Despite cut backs, travel restrictions and horrible weather, attendance at the 4th International Workshop on HIV and Women exceeded expectations – and the past three meetings – with over 50 abstracts...
View Article21st Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 3-6...
This year the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections – the leading HIV conference on basic and clinical science – was held in Boston from 3-6 March 2014. While the meeting mostly...
View Article8th International Workshop on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis and Prevention...
The 8th International Workshop on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis and Prevention Research in Resource-Poor Settings (INTEREST) was held in Lusaka this year. The workshop includes presentations from and for...
View Article6th International Workshop on HIV Paediatrics, 18-19 July 2014, Melbourne
The International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics is now up to number six – an annual fixture before the IAS conference – and goes from strength to strength. The meeting is an opportunity to show work on a...
View Article20th International AIDS Conference, 20-25 July 2014, Melbourne
This year the IAS conference was held under somber remembrance for the six delegates who were travelling to the meeting as passengers on flight MH17. This loss and their lives was included in many of...
View Article20th International AIDS Conference, 20-25 July 2014, Melbourne
We continue our coverage of reports from the AIDS 2014 Conference held in Melbourne in July. The abstracts, Powerpoint slides, posters and webcasts from the meeting are accessible online using the...
View Article54th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy...
Although this large North American conference always includes a separate section in the programme on HIV, this is a conference that we are rarely able to attend. A summary of highlights from ICAAC 2014...
View ArticleXXIV International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop , 21-22 February 2015,...
This was the first year that the International Drug Resistance Workshop has been held before CROI and the programme has returned to focus on HIV drug resistance, having for several previous years...
View Article2015 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 23-26...
The 2015 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held from 23-26 February in Seattle, Washington. CROI is the most important annual scientific and medical HIV conference....
View Article17th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV & Hepatitis...
The 17th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV & Hepatitis Therapy, was held from 8 – 10 June 2016 in Washington DC. The slides of the presentations given during the meeting and...
View ArticleTB 2016, 16-17 July 2016, Durban, South Africa
The International AIDS Society (IAS) organied a two-day conference dedicated to this infectious disease immediately before AIDS 2016 in Durban, South Africa. http://www.tb2016.org This meeting...
View ArticleTenofovir-containing ART reduces bone mineral density in breast feeding...
Polly Clayden, HIV i-Base Tenofovir DF containing ART decreases bone mineral density in HIV positive, breast feeding women, according to findings presented at the 8th International Workshop on HIV...
View Article8th International Workshop on HIV Paediatrics, 15-16 July 2016, Durban, South...
The 8th International Workshop on HIV paediatrics was held from 15-16 July in Durban. The slides of the presentations given during the meeting and the webcasts of these presentations, are published...
View ArticleGlobal HIV Clinical Forum: Integrase Inhibitors, 16 July 2016, Durban
This one-day workshop that focused on all things integrase was held just before the IAS 2016 conference in Durban. The meeting has an excellent policy of putting slides for all oral presentations and...
View Article21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), 18-22 July 2016, Durban,...
The 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) was held from 18-22 July 2016 in the coastal town of Durban in South Africa. Attended by more than 18,000 delegates, this vital meeting covers all...
View Article2nd HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P) 2016, 17-20 October 2016,...
This second biennial HIV Research for Prevention (HIVR4P) conference was held this year in Chicago from 17 to 21 October. Although the conference programme is online, this does not link to the study...
View ArticleInternational Congress of Drug Therapy in HIV infection (Glasgow 2016), 23-26...
This year the biennial Glasgow conference was held from 23-26 October 2016. The meeting has a single-track programme making it easy to attend and follow everything. Important European research is often...
View Article24th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2017),...
This issue of HTB includes further reports from the 24th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2017) held in Seattle from 13-16 February 2017. CROI is one of the leading...
View Article11th INTEREST Workshop, 16-19 May 2017, Lilongwe, Malawi
The INTEREST Workshop, shows findings from African HIV treatment and prevention research and is largely attended by delegates from the continent. This year, the workshop was held in Lilongwe, Malawi....
View Article9th International Workshop on HIV Paediatrics, 21–22 July 2017, Paris
The 9th International Workshop on HIV Paediatrics was held from 21–22 July 2017 in Paris. The paediatrics workshop is the only HIV meeting devoted to research in prevention and treatment for infants,...
View Article16th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2017)
The 16th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2017) was held from 25-27 October 2017 in Milan, Italy. This conference is held every two years (alternating with the Glasgow HIV Congress) and always provides a...
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