UNAIDS - October 24, 2007

In a special session titled "What's New in HIV Prevention", UNAIDS Chief Scientific Advisor, Catherine Hankins will address the conference on Thursday 24 with a presentation about ethical issues related to research into biomedical HIV prevention methods, which include pre-exposure prophylaxis (the use of HIV medicines to prevent infection), male circumcision and microbicides.

Other sessions will focus on topics such as the impact and complications of HIV treatment, issues facing older patients, Hepatitis co-infection, HIV drug resistance and implementation of the European HIV treatment guidelines. A number of pharmaceutical research and development companies who are sponsoring the conference will conduct satellite symposia throughout the event to discuss their companies' treatment advances.

The conference is organized by the European AIDS Clinical Society, which published the first common European treatment guidelines in 2001 in recognition of the need for standard treatment protocols across the continent. The guidelines were updated in 2005, and another update will be made available on the final day of the Madrid conference.

Previous conferences have been held in cities across Europe since 1989, most recently taking place in Dublin in 2005. The 12th European AIDS Conference is planned for Cologne, Germany in November 2009.

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