Major treatment conference in Rio, July 24-27.

The third IAS Conference on Pathogenesis and Treatment is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 24-27, 2005. This conference, organized every two years by the International AIDS Society and co-sponsored by organizations including the Brazilian national AIDS program, the ANRS (French National Agency for Research on HIV and Viral Hepatitis), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, International Medical Press, and nine major pharmaceutical companies, has become important very quickly--probably because it has a strong medical and scientific locus, and is more accessible than the Retroviruses conference in the U.S. For more information about this and related international AIDS conferences see:

http://www.ias-2005.org/--home page of the current conference in Rio:

http://www.iasociety.org/--home page of the International AIDS Society;

http://www.aids2006.org/--next year's big conference, the XVI International AIDS Conference (also cosponsored by the International AIDS Society) August 1318, 2006 in Toronto, Canada;

http://www.ias2007.org/--the next IAS Conference on Pathogenesis and Treatment, July 22-25, 2007 in Sydney, Australia.

We will have information about presentations in future issues. Web sites that will be reporting this conference include two that are officially IAS online partners:

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/rio2005 (Kaiser Family Foundation), and

http://www.hiv.medscape.com/(Medscape). Also see

http://www.clinicaloptions.com/(Clinical Care Options) and other sites.