40th World Conference on Lung Health of the International Union Against...
Introduction Several presentations at this conference indicated that there is progress in TB drug development and diagnostics. For example, at least three drugs for the treatment of TB and...
View Article17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, 16-10 February...
Introduction The 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), one of the most important annual HIV meetings, was held this year from 16-19 February. As with previous meetings,...
View ArticleXVIII 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...
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