News

20 October 2015

The HIV FORUM offers a unique platform for enhancing clinical knowledge of healthcare professionals working in the field of HIV therapy. Annual HIV Fora will be organized to stimulate community building and data sharing of clinical experience and research results. HIV FORUM is chaired by Drs Jonathan Schapiro, Anna Maria Geretti and Charles Boucher. HIV FORUM is developed by Virology Education.

- Are you enthusiastic about sharing clinical and research experience with your colleagues in an independent and interactive setting?

- Are you attracted by state-of-the art lectures by experts in the field?

- Are you interested in discussing your and your colleagues’ challenging clinical cases with Key Opinion Leaders?

JOIN US AT THE HIV FORUM!!

The 1st HIV FORUM focuses on Integrase Inhibitors and will take place in Barcelona, Spain on 20 October 2015.

We would like to encourage you to register and submit your data for discussion. Here is what we can offer:

A state of the art program

An excellent faculty

An interactive setting

And

Complimentary registration

Complimentary accommodation on October 20th

Complimentary workshop dinner

Travel grants – a limited number is available and priority will be given to abstract and/or clinical case submitters

For registration & abstract/clinical case submission, please visit our website: http://www.HIV-FORUM.com/

We look forward to seeing you in Barcelona!

14 September 2015

The Martin Fisher Foundation is being established to celebrate and take forward the legacy of the incredible work which Martin led to treat with dignity, compassion and respect patients with HIV and focus on the development of new strategies for effective treatment and prevention.  This work was centred on Brighton and Hove but through his distinguished research career has had a global reach.

To view the detailed programme and register, please click here (registration is required). For further information or enquiries, please email info_at_martinfisherfoundation.org.

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20-27 November 2015

European HIV Testing Week is renamed to European HIV-Hepatitis Testing Week to mark the inclusion of viral hepatitis testing in 2015.

Read the news release

Visit the HIV-Hepatitis Testing Week official website

16 September 2015

The 19th Annual Resistance and Antiviral Therapy Meeting is to be held at Wellcome Collection in London. The tradition is to review and discuss aspects of virology research that advance understanding and have immediate application in care settings. 

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On July 20, Professor Mauro Moroni passed away at the age of seventy seven after a short illness. With his death one of the most charismatic infectious diseases doctors of Italy has gone.

In Italy and especially in his home city of Milan, he was the first pioneer and face during the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 80’s and early 90’s. Always engaged in numerous initiatives to fight off HIV/AIDS he was one of the founding members of the European AIDS Clinical Society. Until his retirement in 2009, he was Director of the Infectious Diseases Institute of the University of Milan. But more important, he was a very human person, always open to listen and help.  He had that rare ability to give energy and enthusiasm to those close to him whilst viewing problems sensibly and rationally; to many of us he was a dear colleague, mentor and source of inspiration.

His departure leaves an empty space in the HIV/AIDS Italian community. 

Prof. Antonella d’Arminio Monforte
EACS Governing Board member

JUSTRISLIDE is a free, searchable, downloadable database of many thousands of slide presentations on HIV, HEPATITIS, NURSING and TB.  The presentations can be viewed online or downloaded for educational purposes - the site is designed as an open resource for all to use and is the official slide archive of the EACS. Register today and start browsing at www.justrislide.com. Also check out the work of JUSTRI at www.justri.org. 

Today, May 27th, the results from the START study were announced. START - a major international randomized clinical trial - has found that HIV-positive individuals have a considerably lower risk of developing AIDS or other serious illnesses if they start taking antiretroviral drugs sooner, when their CD4+ T-cell count—a key measure of immune system health—is higher, instead of waiting until the CD4+ cell count drops to lower levels. Together with data from previous studies showing that antiretroviral treatment reduced the risk of HIV transmission to uninfected sexual partners, these findings support offering treatment to everyone with HIV.

See press release and question and answers from NIAID:

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/Pages/START.aspx

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/QA/Pages/STARTqa.aspx

Other material:

http://insight.ccbr.umn.edu/start/

21-24 October 2015

The Scientific Programme of the 15th European AIDS Conference is now available. 

We created a Day-to-Day overview to provide you with a detailed scientific programme.

With this Day-to-Day programme overview, you can select the sessions you wish to attend and download them in your personal calendar. 

Please visit the Conference website to have a look at this programme and to register to the conference.  

(Early registration fee until June 30, 2015)