Reports from the conference

Our final reports from this meeting include:

• Protease inhibitors in pregnancy
• IDU-related studies at CROI:
  • Low Rates of HCV treatment among eligible injection drug users;
  • Effect of HCV and HIV on mortality among injecting drug users;
  • HCV/HIV-co-infected IDUs are at increased risk of death from hepatitis-related death in the HAART era, compared with HCV-mono-IDUs;
  • Long-term effectiveness of isoniazid prophylaxis on TB incidence in a cohort of IDUs;
  • The dynamics of HCV transmission among injection drug users in St. Petersburg;
  • “Founder effect” among HIV-positive IDUs in Karachi, Pakistan;.

Programme and abstracts

http://www.retroconference.org

The CROI website makes all key lectures and oral presentations available online, and includes online searchable free access to the abstracts from the meeting. An increasing proportion of poster abstracts are also posted online in PDF format (though this is still only for a minority of the posters).

This broad access means that it is easy to see important trial results and overview lectures directly – this is better that through a community or medical journalist – and the questions and discussion at the end of each session are also included in these web presentations.

We encourage readers to find a few hours to follow some of this important material first hand.