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The Opening Ceremony:  First, a rant…there is a history to AIDS and Sunday night in Washington that history was reconstructed. It was reconstruct

I’m off to the airport now- and missing Bill Clinton’s closing speech . Thanks to those people who read these posts-It’s been a great conference, so h

Building Bridges: HIV and non-communicable diseases. My last day in Washington DC and although I am sorry to leave I am keen to return to Australi

Yesterday afternoon climaxed with some exciting late breaker oral presentations. Headlines are: CONSORT study- This study showed that isoniazid prop

It has been a wonderful yet wearing conference attended by over 23,000 people. We now look forward to the AIDS 2014 conference in our own Melbourne, A

The day held many highlights. There was ongoing discussion on the importance of the international community continuing to partner in the continui

An early morning blog spawned by a salty dash of guilt for not having reported back much this time around and a state of not-being-able-to sleep. T

Fabulous plenary session in more way than one this morning. The first three speakers spoke passionately about the inclusion of marginalised population

The best posters of the day were invited to give a 5 minute speech. I thought these two might interest you as much as they did me. 1)  &nbs

You’re probably aware that 3 studies were published in the last few months linking, particularly injectable contraception, to HIV transmission and sus

The issue of breastfeeding for HIV positive mums was discussed in detail at a special session today. I tend to forget the legacy of previous advice to

This conference is a marathon. Day 4 and I am exhausted. So many people, protests and presentations to attend - it's quite overwhelming. One of the hi

Plummets in Vit D, increased kidney stones, increased fractures (more than half do not have osteoporosis, 13% vs 5%), direct cellular aging as measure

Drugs and therapeutic challenges were the themes of this morning’s session. The plenary started with some excellent overview talks, especially one de

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times (Charles Dickens, 1859, “The Tale of Two Cities”) ... The incremental growth of HIV  sci

Earlier today I went to an oral abstract presentation (MOAC03) on Access to and retention of antiretroviral treatment. Despite improved mortality, a

Just got back from a debate on “treatment as prevention”, although the speakers only really disagreed on how easy such a policy would be to achieve, r

DC is hotting up. The opening plenary last night was long and impassioned, with various speakers exhorting the audience to 'end AIDS now'. Michel Sidi

Hello- and welcome to this conference report. The conference formally opened last night, with speeches from, amongst others, Jim Kim, (the head of th

You would never have known it was a World AIDS conference - the Opening Ceremony was a festschrift  of US backslapping.  While the US was congratulate

Greetings from Washington DC. Nice to be back. I used to live here and went to George Washington University as an undergraduate. I couldn’t understand

... So said the former American president Roosevelt. The opening ceremony is going well. It is a hot Washington day. It is now feasible once again fo

In the US, 60% of new HIV infections are among the 2-5% of adult men who are gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men (MSM), and rates of HIV

this is a preliminary announcement just to let you know we will commence the reportback on the conference from the end of the closing ceremony. posts

Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim opened with the N'Galy- Mann lecture. Their talks chronicled 20+ years of HIV research and epidemiology in Africa. T