ICAAC: A Preliminary Report

ICAAC: A Preliminary Report

Being Alive; November 1992
Walt Senterfitt

"What the hell is ICAAC?" you might reasonably ask. It stands for the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, one of the more important annual meetings on infectious diseases and drugs used to treat or prevent them. This year's version was held in Anaheim in October, attended by more than 12,000 researchers, physicians, and drug company representatives (complete with elaborate sales displays, dinners and outings, and other freebies for the docs).

Perhaps 20% of the meeting was devoted to HIV/AIDS and related opportunistic infections. My impression and that of others I've consulted is, alas, that there was little new information presented. Most presentations I heard were slightly recycled versions of what the same people had said at the Amsterdam Conference in July. While I'm still reviewing a mound of conference materials and interviewing other attendees, here are some brief reports.

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