11th BHIVA and BASSH joint annual conference, 22-25 April 2005, Dublin

15 June 2005. Related: Conference reports, BHIVA/BASHH 1st Dublin 2005, Conference index.

Reports from the conference

This joint meeting – the British HIV Association (BHIVA) jointly orgnanised the meeting with British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) drew over 800 delegates to hear a wide range of excellent presentations, was held just as this issue of HTB went to press.

Reports from the meeting will follow in the June issue of HTB.

Abstracts are posted to the online conference database resource at AEGiS.org.
http://www.aegis.org

They are also posted to the BHIVA conference website in various pdf formats.
http://www.bhiva.org

Reports:

• Long-awaited UK pregnancy guidelines now updated; pregnancy studies in Dublin

• Underdosing of ARVs in children: results from CHIPS cohort

• Sexual transmission and response to treatment in acute HCV infection in HIV-positive gay men coinfected with HIV

• Levels of efavirenz 10-fold above minimum target level despite coadministration with rifampicin

• Schistosomiasis after immune reconstitution: symptoms appear as HAART side effects