HIV Therapy: Retroviruses Meeting Report by Telephone Conference, February 4

"What Is State-of-the-Art Therapy for HIV?", an interactive telephone conference report from the 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (January 31 - February 4, Chicago), will take place Thursday, February 4, at 11:30 a.m. Pacific time (12:30 p.m. Mountain, 1:30 p.m. Central, 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time). There is no charge, but participants must register in advance; registration is limited to 200. Participants can ask questions of the panelists by phone during the teleconference, or by email before.

Also, a tape recording will be available afterwards, 24 hours a day at a separate phone number (no registration required). And within 14 days an edited transcript will be available at (website no longer available).

The panelists are:

David Cooper, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Director, National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;

Roy Gulick, M.D., Director, Cornell University Clinical Trials Unit, New York City;

Calvin Cohen, M.D., Director, Community Research Initiative of New England;

Steven Deeks, M.D. San Francisco General Hospital AIDS Program;

Harvey Bartnof, M.D., AIDS Virus Education Research Institute, San Francisco; and

Ronald Baker, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, HIVandHepatitis.com.

This program is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Roche Laboratories, Inc.

To register for the teleconference, call 800-880-5121, Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Eastern time.

To submit questions to the panelists in advance, send them to ronbakersf@aol.com. You can also ask questions by phone during the conference.

To listen to a recording afterwards, call 888-207-2647, access code 1967. This number is active 24 hours a day; the recording should become available within 24 hours of the teleconference.