2nd Joint Conference of BHIVA with BASHH, 20–-23 April 2010, Manchester

1 June 2010. Related: Conference reports, Conference index, BHIVA/BASHH 2nd, Manchester 2010.

Introduction

Summary reports from this meeting include:

• HAART use among women in UK receiving treatment prior to conception

• Duration of ruptured membranes and vertical transmission in the UK

• Significant rates of unplanned pregnancies among young women born with HIV

• Route of HCV transmission in HIV-positive gay men is unlikely to be from semen

• 75% HIV-positive children have insufficient levels of Vitamin D

• Increase in LGV cases in gay men reported in the UK

• High rates of osteopenia and osteoporosis: importance of DEXA monitoring

• Summaries of other studies

Abstracts from the conference are published as a supplement to the May 2010 edition of HIV Medicine; Volume 11, Supplement 1.

Until these are posted on the aegis.org conference abstract database, a PDF file abstract is:

http://www.aegis.org/conferences/BHIVA/2010/16BHIVA-2010.pdf