HIV vaccine trials network – meeting slides

Slides from selected presentations from meeting held in 22-24 October 2003, Seattle, USA.

http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=cfhvtn-03-01

• Epidemiology of HIV in IDUs: rationale for IDU participation in HIV vaccine trials
• Basic concepts in HIV vaccinology
• T-cell immunity and HIV
• HIV vaccine development & the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: a view of the field
• Involvement of injection drug users in prevention, treatment and research: vaccine development in former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe
• The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the WHO European region
• Immunology and vaccinology – how do we relate it to current HVTN protocols?
• Env immunogens in candidate HIV-1 vaccines

Table of ongoing vaccine trials – updated to November 2003:

http://chi.ucsf.edu/vaccines/vaccines?page=vc-03-00

HIV inSite Knowledge Base

Updated or new chapters recently added to this thorough HIV online medical textbook.

• Toxoplasmosis and HIV – C. Subauste, MD. New chapter.
  http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=kb-05-04-03
• Radiographic Assessment of HIV-Related Diseases – P. Goodman, MD. Updated chapter.
  http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=kb-04-01-16
• Safer-Sex Methods – T. Lane, PhD, and H. Palacio, MD. Updated chapter
  http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=kb-07-02-02
• Renal Manifestations of HIV – R. Rodriguez, MD. Updated chapter.
  http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=kb-04-01-10