Upcoming Research and Treatment Conferences, Meetings
Today the most complete information on upcoming conferences is available on the Web. Instead of duplicating the work of others by maintaining our own list of meetings, we provide links to other organizations which are already doing so; you can reach these links through our site, http://www.aidsnews.org .In mid-August we went through those lists and other information, and selected some of the most important conferences and meetings to bring to our readers' attention:
1999
August 29-September 1, 1999, National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/hiv_aids/conferences/nhpc99.htm .
Not a treatment meeting, but an important conference which activists and professionals should be aware of, even if they are not directly involved.
August 28-September 2, 1999, 1999 Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore, Maryland,
http://www.ihv.org/
A technical conference on basic and applied research on AIDS, cancer, and other diseases. We will attend, and expect to report on this meeting in future issues of AIDS Treatment News.
September 1-5, 1999, 2nd Conference on Global Strategies for the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mothers to Infants, Montreal, Canada,
http://www.globalstrategies.org/workshops/index.html
Note the coordination with the conference below. (This conference is full.)
September 5-6, 1999, Advances in Pediatric AIDS, Montreal, Canada,
http://www.nyas.org/scitech/.
Note coordination with conference above.
September 8-10, 1999, 1st International Congress on Cytokines and Chemokines in Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland.
Email wsnow@bellsouth.net .
September 26-29, 39th ICAAC (Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy), San Francisco, California,
http://www.icaac.org/ .
ICAAC is most important in odd-numbered years, when there is no competing International AIDS Conference; see ICAAC announcement in AIDS Treatment News #323, July 16, 1999.
October 1, 1999, Integrating a Spectrum of HIV/AIDS Therapies: Maximizing Benefits of HAART with complementary Care, New York, New York. Contact Rachel Sacks, 212-566-7333, fax 212-566-4539, email bodyposedu@aol.com. We believe that much more attention is needed to using nutritional, dietary supplement, lifestyle, and other approaches together with standard of care antiretroviral treatment, particularly for reducing side effects of medications. Industry has considerable control of the research agenda, and has little interest in non-proprietary products which cannot be sold at an enormous markup--or in calling attention to the side effects of its expensive drugs.
October 7-10, 1999, International Symposium on Growth Hormone in Immune Reconstitution, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida; call Serono Symposia USA, 800-283-8088. (See announcement in this issue, below.)
October 9-12, 1999, 1999 National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS, Los Angeles, California,
(website no longer available)
See announcement below.
October 10, 1999, Diagnostic Technologies in the Management of HIV/AIDS and Other Life-Threatening Coinfectious Diseases, First International Symposium, Vienna, Austria,
http://www.iapac.org/
Note coordination with conference below.
October 11-13, 1999, The Third International Conference on Healthcare Resource Allocation for HIV/AIDS and Other Life-Threatening Illnesses, Vienna, Austria,
http://www.iapac.org/
Note coordination with conference above.
October 16-17, Lymphoma Patient Education Forum, Manhattan Beach, California,
http://www.lymphoma.org/site/pp.asp?c=bfIKIVMIG&b=36832
October 23-27, Seventh European conference on Clinical Aspects and Treatment of HIV Infection, Lisbon, Portugal,
November 5-8, The United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), Denver, Colorado,
http://www.nmac.org/
U.S. skills-building conference; see announcement below.
November 12-15, 2nd Canadian HIV/AIDS Skills Building Symposium: Getting Together, Sharing Together, Learning Together, Winnipeg, Canada,
http://www.cdnaids.ca/ .
Canadian skills-building conference.
November 18-21, 37th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
http://www.idsociety.org/.
December 1, 1999, World AIDS Day,
http://www.avert.org/worldaid.htm .
December 1, 1999, AIDS-Associated malignancies: Biology & Clinical Management, San Francisco, California.
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/cme/
Note coordination with conference below.
December 2-4, 1999, Comprehensive Review of HIV Management: Winter Symposium, San Francisco, California,
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/cme/
Note coordination with conference above.
December 11-14, 1999, National AIDS Treatment Advocates Forum (NATAF), Miami, Florida,
http://www.nmac.org/
2000
January 30-February 2, 2000, 7th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, San Francisco, California, http://www.retroconference.org .
One of the most important conferences on basic and clinical AIDS research. See announcement of dates and deadlines, below.
April 16-21, 2000, 13th International Conference on Antiviral Research, Baltimore,
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/arc/ISAR/ .
May 4-7, 2000, 10th Annual Clinical Care Options for HIV Symposium, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Email: registration@mail.medscape.com .
July 9-14, XIII International AIDS Conference - AIDS 2000, Durban, South Africa, (website no longer available)
October 22-26, 2000, Fifth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, Glasgow, UK.
2001
April 7-13, 2001, 13th International Conference on Antiviral Research, Seattle, Washington http://www.isar-icar.com/ .
2002
July 2002, XIV International Conference on AIDS, Barcelona, Spain.
2004
15th International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada. In early August, 1999, it was announced that the International AIDS Conference in 2004 will be held in Toronto. The United States was not considered as a site, in part because it requires visitors to disclose their HIV status in order to enter the country.
