AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #368, July 13, 2001
John S. James
The IAS created the new meeting to focus mainly on basic and clinical science and the interaction between them -- including new treatments, vaccines, studies of pathogenesis, and how research can contribute to making good prevention, treatment and care available to the approximately 90% of persons with HIV who currently do not have access because they live in poor countries. The scheduled keynote and plenary speakers were:
David Ho: Learning Basic Science from Clinical Trials
Julio Montaner: Current Controversies in Antiretroviral Treatment
Stefano Vella: Fostering Access to HIV Treatment
Anthony Fauci: Immunopathogenesis of HIV Disease: Host Factors in Pathogenesis of HIV Disease: Implications for Therapeutic Strategies
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi: HIV: Twenty Years After the Discovery of the AIDS Epidemic
Margaret Johnston: Virologic and Immunologic Concepts in Vaccine Design
Brigitte Autran: Immune Reconstitution: Translating Immunologic Knowledge into Therapy
Eric Hunter: The Next Target in Therapy: Viral Entry
Ashley Haase: Virologic and Immunologic Concepts on HIV Transmission
David Cooper: Antiretroviral Therapy Toxicity: The Second Round, Beyond Lipodystrophy
John Mellors: Resistance: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Research
In addition, the U.S. National Institutes of Health organized a one-day meeting the day before the conference on "Formulating a Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Research Agenda in Resource-Poor Setting."
AIDS TREATMENT NEWS did not attend this meeting. In future issues we may summarize some of the presentations. Meanwhile, extensive reports are available on the Web.
Web Access
The IAS has named Medscape as the official provider of online conference coverage for this meeting. The Medscape site for this conference can be reached through a link on the Medscape home page, http://www.medscape.com
The official Conference site, which has background information on the conference, is: http://www.aids2001ias.org
You can search and read the abstracts of the conference by reaching a search page through the IAS home page: http://www.ias.se
(At this time the search function is confusing. You do *not* need to log in with a user name and password in order to search or read these conference abstracts. We have not yet been able to do an 'and' search (it does an 'or' instead) -- but with fewer than a thousand abstracts, one can live with that. So far we have not found a link from the Buenos Aires conference page, only from the IAS home page -- nor have we found a link to instructions for more advanced searches. We hope these glitches will be corrected.)
Other Web sites with extensive coverage of this meeting include:
http://www.thebody.com/confs/ias2001/ias2001.html
http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/2001conf/ias/main.html
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