52nd 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....
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