Buenos Aires Conference on Treatment and Research: Web Reports Available.A new scientific conference created by the International AIDS Society The International AIDS Society (IAS) is an international society for scientists, health care and public health workers, and others engaged in HIV/AIDS prevention, control and care. (IAS See iPlanet Application Server. 1. (computer) IAS - The first modern computer. It had main registers, processing circuits, information paths within the central processing unit, and used Von Neumann's fetch-execute cycle. ) took place July 8-11 in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. . Even before the first meeting, the 1st IAS Conference on Pathogenesis and Treatment had emerged as an important conference, with about 3,000 scientists attending and 748 scientific presentations (out of about 1,000 submitted); you can read abstracts of the presentations through the Web links below. This conference will occur every two years, during the odd numbered years when there is no international AIDS conference Education, networking and the promotion of best practice are essential to enhancing the response to HIV/AIDS. IAS conferences provide opportunities to share experience, and increase the knowledge and expertise of professionals working in HIV/AIDS. . 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 HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. who currently do not have access because they live in poor countries. The scheduled keynote and plenary speakers were: David Ho David Da-i Ho (何大一, pinyin: Hé Dàyī) (born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwan-born American AIDS researcher famous for pioneering the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV-infected patients with his team. : Learning Basic Science from Clinical Trials Julio Montaner: Current Controversies in Antiretroviral Treatment Stefano Vella: Fostering Access to HIV Treatment Anthony Fauci Anthony S. Fauci is an immunologist who has made substantial contributions to research in the areas of AIDS and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). : Immunopathogenesis of HIV Disease: Host Factors in Pathogenesis of HIV Disease: Implications for Therapeutic Strategies Francoise Barre-Sinoussi: HIV: Twenty Years TWENTY YEARS. The lapse of twenty years raises a presumption of certain facts, and after such a time, the party against whom the presumption has been raised, will be required to prove a negative to establish his rights. 2. 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 HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 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 LAS 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.) |
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