Reports from the conference

Introduction

The annual BHIVA spring conference held this year in Dublin, has two main aims. In addition to presenting overview lectures on important aspects of HIV care and management – often given by international experts, it aims to encourage UK-based research and case studies by presenting research from junior doctors and researchers.

In the last issue of HTB we covered the latest BHIVA audit, current MRC studies and a range of other posters and presentations.

In this issue we continue with the following reports:

• Bone problems raised in several UK studies

• Late diagnosis in adolescence of vertically acquired HIV infection

• Case study of multi-drug resistant woman receiving newer antiretroviral drugs in pregnancy

• Predictors of treatment failure in Western Cape, South Africa

• Late pregnancy loss in HIV-positive women

• Renal tubular dysfunction with tenofovir-based HAART in four vertically infected adolescents