Introduction

The 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), one of the most important annual HIV meetings, was held this year from 16-19 February. As with previous meetings, much of the conference is published online including all abstracts and webcasts of oral presentations including selected poster discussions.

Making this scientific content available without login or subscription is itself a significant achievement. It is a model for broadening access to medical research to a degree that is currently unmatched by any other meeting.

The webcasts this year include oral presentations, poster discussions, the opening lectures and the pre-meeting set of training workshops for young investigators.

The conference website also includes a searchable abstract database.

We encourage readers to view these lectures directly.

http://www.retroconference.org/2010/Abstracts/38289.htm

http://www.retroconference.org/2010/data/files/webcast_2010.htm

Lectures are also available as audio downloads and podcasts, which include slides as audiobooks.

The following reports from the conference are included in this issue of ARVs4IDUs: