Reports from the conference

Introduction

The IAS conference did not have a lot of new research related to IDU, although one of the sessions did focus on IDU-related issues. We include the following reports in this issue:

• Influence of HIV infection on renal function among heroin users
• Risk of developing specific AIDS-defining illnesses in patients coinfected with HIV and HCV, with or without liver cirrhosis
• Response to first line antiretroviral therapy in patients with and without a history of IDU in Indonesia
• Screening, enrolment, and follow-up of IDUs in an HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis trial in Bangkok
• HIV, HCV and somatic comorbidity in a heroin maintenance centre in Switzerland – a case for an integrative medical approach to harm-reduction
• Performance of simple non-invasive scores to predict fibrosis in HIV/HCV co-infection in daily clinical practice
• Liver disease is associated with HIV/HCV co-infection and alcohol use among IDUs in Chennai, India
• Hunger and food insufficiency are independently correlated with unprotected sex among HIV-positive IDUs with and without HAART
• Drug and alcohol dependence special session

For the first time, webcasts of several sessions are available via the conference website together with searchable online abstracts and PDF files of many of the posters or presentations:

http://www.ias2009.org

The abstract database from the meeting is online at the same site.