Conference Summaries: Opening Day and Day One<BR> Sunday, July 9 - Monday, July 10, 2000

The Body Covers: The XIII International AIDS Conference

Conference Summaries: Opening Day and Day One
Sunday, July 9 - Monday, July 10, 2000

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Opening Day: Sunday, July 9, 2000

Opening Ceremony
Coverage by Pablo Tebas, M.D.
Plenary: The Jonathan Mann Memorial Lecture
Coverage by Pablo Tebas, M.D.

Day One: Monday, July 10, 2000

Anemia and HIV
Coverage by Ann C. Collier, M.D.
- Relationship between highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART), anemia and survival in a large cohort of HIV-infected women (Women's Interagency HIV Study -- WIHS) (MoPeB2180 Poster Exhibition)
- Leukocyte-reduction of red blood cells (RBC) does not improve clinical outcome in anemic patients with advanced HIV infection needing RBC transfusion (MoPeB2143)
Men Who Have Sex With Men
Coverage by Judith Feinberg, M.D.
- Steady relationships as a setting for HIV-transmission in gay men -- a 16-year follow-up of seroconversions (MoPpC1101 Poster Presentation)
Patient Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapies -- I
Coverage by Alvan Fisher, M.D.
Animal Models -- Interventions
Coverage by Pablo Tebas, M.D.
- Development of virus-specific immune responses in SHIVKU-infected macaques treated with PMPA (MoOrA101)
- Initiating a four-week-long oral HAART four hours after intravenous exposure of macaques with SHIV89.6P preserves from acute CD4+ cell decline (MoOrA102)
Symposium: The Science of HIV/AIDS: Evolution & Impact
Coverage by Pablo Tebas, M.D.
Symposium: Management of Drug Resistance
Coverage by Pablo Tebas, M.D.
Male Circumcision: An Ignored Intervention
Coverage by Judith Feinberg, M.D.
- Male circumcision and HIV spread in sub-Saharan Africa (MoOrC192-196)

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