17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 16-19 February 2010, San Francisco

2 April 2010. Related: Conference reports, CROI 17 (Retrovirus) 2010, Conference index.

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 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/AbstractSearch/

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

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

Our first articles covering this meeting are:

• Treatment reduces infections by over 90%: a theme that is here to stay

• href=”https://i-base.info/htb/10264″>ACTG 5205: atazanavir/ritonavir vs efavirenz in treatment naive patients

• Pipeline compounds and new approaches to
  treatment

• Clinical benefits of stopping smoking: CVD and CHD risk
  returns to that of ‘previous smoker’ in HIV-positive people within three years

• HIV increases the risk of lung cancer, independent of
  smoking status

• HIV-positive people in the HOPS cohort have 4-fold risk of fracture
  compared to general population in the US

• href=”https://i-base.info/htb/10248″>Vitamin D deficiencies in HIV management

• OCTANE 2: nevirapine
  and lopinavir/r are similar when used with tenofovir and FTC in treatment-naive women

• HIV incidence and retesting in pregnancy

• <a
  title=”Permanent link to Efavirenz use in pregnancy and birth outcomes” rel=”bookmark” href=”https://i-base.info/htb/10240″>Efavirenz use in pregnancy and
  birth outcomes

• href=”https://i-base.info/htb/10238″>Pregnancy outcomes in women using non-AZT HAART in Europe

• When should HAART be
  initiated in pregnancy to achieve an undetectable viral load?

• Pregnancy outcomes in infants exposed to maternal antiretrovirals
  in utero

• Maternal
  TB, HIV and pregnancy

More to follow next issue…