Background: Again, I realise it is very very late in the game, but I would like to try to raise support to cover the International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur Reasons for covering the meeting: This is the most important international HIV science meeting which takes place every two years. Date of the conference: …
*FUNDED!* Theo Smart Project #2: Partial support to cover IAS 2013 Read More »
In a little over a week’s time, the new WHO Consolidated Guidelines on the use of ART for HIV Treatment and Prevention are expected to be released at IAS 2013 in Kuala Lumpur. As the discussion below about Gallant et al’s editorial on whether the world is ready for the US-style ‘treatment for all PLHIV’ …
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I’m going to take Joel Gallant (who I greatly admire) and colleagues to task a bit for the *tone* and timing of their just published piece in CID, “Universal Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection: Should U.S. Treatment Guidelines Be Applied to Resource‐Limited Settings?”, which states that “new U.S. guidelines recommending ART for all HIV‐infected patients …
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Gareth is faculty at the Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA and has extensive experience working in the field of HIV immunology over the last 15 years. He received his bachelor’s degree in Immunology at University College London and his Ph.D. in Immunology at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, …
Background: I would like to find support to cover the upcoming South African AIDS Conference in Durban South Africa. Reasons for covering the meeting: As Theo said, this is an important regional meeting that takes place every two years in the country with the largest ART programme in the world, and the global HIV community …
Lance Sherriff Project #1: Reporting on the 6th South African AIDS Conference Read More »
Background: I realise it is very very late in the game, but I would like to find support to cover the upcoming South African AIDS Conference in Durban South Africa. Reasons for covering the meeting: This is an important regional meeting that takes place every two years near the eye of the storm for the …
Theo Smart Project #1: Reporting on the 6th South African AIDS Conference Read More »
Transcript of Welcoming Remarks by Stephen Lewis at HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop, Vancouver 2013 Moderator, Stephen Lewis: In order to exercise incomparable compassion I’m going to speak for a few minutes so that David Wilson can finish eating, which is unusual for me to be vaguely decent on platform. I’m glad to open this …
Full version of part one of this series posted above.
WHO’s 2013 antiretroviral therapy (ART) guidelines will recommend earlier initiation of ART (at CD4 counts below 500 cells) but will “still prioritise treating patients who are symptomatic as well as those with CD4 cell counts less than 350,” according to Dr Meg Doherty, of WHO’s HIV Department who presented the yet-to-be-finalised 2013 Antiretroviral (ART) guidelines …
Theo Smart is an HIV activist and medical writer who joined ACT UP New York in 1988 and has more than twenty years of experience writing about HIV treatment for organisations including ACT UP’s Treatment & Data Committee, TAG, the PWA Health Group, GMHC, the Physician’s Research Network in New York and AmFAR. After the …