Conference abstracts and reports

6 November 2004. Related: On the web.

13th International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop

8-12 June 2004, Tenerife Sur-Costa Adeje, Canary Islands, Spain

The 13th International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop abstracts have been loaded to the AEGiS conference database. They are available in both PDF and XHTML files. The HTML files are fully indexed, cross-referenced, and keyword searchable.

HTML files are located at:
http://www.aegis.org/conferences/13thHIVDrugResWkshop/

Second Salvage Therapy Think Tank

On 16 and 17 April 2004, the “Salvage Therapy II Think Tank” was held at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston at the Texas Medical Centre. This meeting was co-sponsored by The Centre for AIDS (CFA) and the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research. The Centre for AIDS Research (CFAR) at Baylor College of Medicine and at The University of Texas Health Science Centre was a local planning partner. This meeting was dedicated to the memory of L. Joel Martinez, the founder of The CFA, who passed away in November 2003.
http://www.centerforaids.org/rita/0904/summary.htm

Prevention, planning, resistance, toxicity: IAPAC sessions 2004

Report by Mark Mascolini from this medical workshop for doctors held in Chicago earlier this year.

Discussions and presentations covered include transmission risk and ARV treatment, reinfection, perinatal HIV testing, rapid HIV tests, antiretroviral and treatment strategies and a very useful overview of lipodystrophy and metabolic research.

IAPAC Monthly – Vol. 10, No. 6, June 2004.
http://www.iapac.org

HIV and TB meeting

The presentations from the 4th TBHIV Working Group meeting in Addis Ababa on 20-21 September and the CDC TBHIV Surveillance Workshop on 22-24 September are now on-line at:
http://www.who.int/gtb/TBHIV/4thglobalwgmtg/agenda_files/index.htm