Upcoming HIV/AIDS Conferences: March

Title: Leading Together 2010: The 6th Canadian HIV/AIDS Skills Building Symposium
City: Montreal, Quebec
Country: Canada
Dates: 03/04/2010 - 03/07/2010
Event Type: Symposium
Subject: Diagnosis; HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS Treatment or Therapies; Social Factors; Training
Description: Leading Together 2010, the 6th Canadian HIV/AIDS Skills Building Symposium, presents a unique opportunity for interactive learning, skills training, cooperation and knowledge exchange to strengthen the nation's community based response to HIV/AIDS. The Leading Together 2010 Skills Building Symposium offers skills training and networking opportunities in six key strategies: (1) Awareness of HIV/AIDS - programs and activities; (2) Social factors/inequities driving the epidemic; (3) Prevention programs and efforts; (4) Diagnosis, care, and treatment; (5) Global leadership; and (6) Front-line capacity to respond.
Sponsor: The Canadian AIDS Society.
Contact: For more information, contact the Leading Together 2010 Team, Canadian AIDS Society, 190 O'Connor Street,
Suite 800, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2R3, Canada; E-mail: skills2010@cdnaids.ca; Tel: (613) 230-3580; Toll-free: 1-800-499-1986; Fax: (613) 563-4998; or access the Web site: www.hivaids-skills.ca/skills/home.nsf/cl/skills-0001.

Title: 2010 National STD Prevention Conference
City: Atlanta
State: GA
Country: United States
Dates: 03/08/2010 - 03/11/2010
Event Type: Conference
Subject: Health Care Policies; Hepatitis Prevention; HIV/AIDS Prevention; STD Prevention
Description: A unique feature of the National STD Prevention Conference is the interface of STD prevention science, program, and policy. The program highlights of this conference will include the following Plenary Sessions: Public Health in Health Care Reform, Vision for the Future of STD Prevention in a New Era of Change, Achieving a More Holistic Norm for Sexual Health, and STD Prevention in the Future of Public Health. Mini-Plenary Session topics include: Emerging Issues for HIV/STI Prevention (HPV Vaccine, Serosorting, PrEP); Facebook, Blogs, and Cellphones: Opportunities and Challenges for STD Prevention; Sexual Partnering: The Science, Determinants, and Implications; and Audience Interaction Session: Unanswered Questions in STD Prevention Programs.
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Contact: For more information contact CDC, E-mail: STDConf@cdc.gov; or access the Web site: www.cdc.gov/stdconference/.
Notes: Registration is now open. Registration Fee: $240 until January 15, 2010 (Early-bird registration).

Title: Infectious Diseases: Adult Issues in the Outpatient and Inpatient Settings
City: Sarasota
State: FL
Country: United States
Dates: 03/08/2010 - 03/12/2010
Event Type: Seminar
Subject: Adults; Diagnosis; Disease Prevention; Hepatitis; HIV/AIDS; Primary Care; Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs); Tuberculosis (TB); Infectious Diseases
Description: Following this course, the participant should be able to recognize the epidemiology and classify commonly presenting infectious diseases; identify the clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, and methods of diagnosing the presenting diseases; and apply the current recommendations of pharmacologic management, referral or follow-up, and prevention. This activity is expected to result in increased confidence in making an appropriate diagnosis and providing effective treatment and referral or follow-up care with the overall goal of improving patient outcomes. The emphasis will be on current guidelines and evidence-based medicine, as indicated within each topic's specific objectives. Since Infectious Diseases is a specialty field of medicine that affects all areas of Primary Care to include: FM, IM, EM, and Pediatrics, this course was designed to cover the spectrum of Infectious Diseases essential to all practicing physicians. Topics will be covered include HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Tuberculosis, Viral Hepatitis, and other infectious diseases.
Sponsor: American Medical Seminars, Inc.
Contact: For more information contact the American Medical Seminars, Inc., E-Mail: mail@ams4cme.com; Toll Free: (866) ams4cme (866-267-4263); Phone: (941) 388-1766; Fax: (941) 365-7073; or access the Web site: www.ams4cme.com/www/LiveSeminars/ SEMLA-2420100308.aspx.
Notes: Registration fee: Regular -- $745/Physician; $645/Non Physician; Late -- $795/Physician; $695/Non Physician. Continuing education credits are available.

Title: 14th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID)
City: Miami
State: FL
Country: United States
Dates: 03/09/2010 - 03/12/2010
Event Type: Conference
Subject: Disease Transmission; Diseases or Disorders; Infection Control; Infections; Travelers
Description: Physicians, scientists, and microbiologists who attend the 14th ICID will be able to articulate updated knowledge of developments on the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or control of infectious diseases around the world. Participants at the close of the Congress will be versed in the latest global efforts on malaria eradication; understand the history of the discovery of HIV and comprehend how the prevention of transmission of HIV will likely unfold by looking at trends and other clues from the early 21st century; understand the effect of international health and global migration on emerging infections, tropical diseases, and vaccine-preventable diseases in various mobile populations, including travelers; appreciate the impact on adults of Pneumococcal infections in children; and be aware of the microbial ecology of infectious diseases.
Sponsor: International Society for Infectious Diseases.
Contact: Access the web site at www.isid.org/14th_icid/ for pre-registration, registration, scientific program, confirmed speakers, and financial assistance.
Notes: A limited number of scholarships will be available to participants with accepted abstracts. Early registration deadline is January 15, 2010. Continuing education credits are available.

Title: 8th European HIV Drug Resistance Workshop: From Basic Science to Clinical Decision Making
City: Sorrento
Country: Italy
Dates: 03/17/2010 - 03/19/2010
Event Type: Workshop
Subject: Drug Resistance; Epidemiology; Hepatitis C; HIV/AIDS; Persons with HIV/Hepatitis; Coinfections
Description: The meeting spans a two-and-a-half-day program, consisting of invited lectures, abstract-driven scientific presentations, clinical case presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop will address important topics such as mechanisms and clinical implications of drug resistance, the epidemiology of drug resistance, resistance to new drugs, resistance technology, and managing HIV-HCV co-infection.
Sponsor: Virology Education
Contact: For more information, contact Virology Education B.V.,
Biltstraat 106, 3572 BJ Utrecht, The Netherlands. Phone +31 (0)30 230 7140; fax +31 (0)30 230 7148; e-mail info@virology-education.com; or access the Web site at www.virology-education.com/index.cfm/t/ 8th_European_HIV_Drug_Resistance_Workshop/vid/F4BA1B1C-AA49-20C0-F4F9B25FDBC62BF8.
Notes: Abstract submission deadline: January 19, 2010. Early Registration Deadline: January 1, 2010.

Title: HIV Vaccines
City: Banff, Alberta
Country: Canada
Dates: 03/21/2010 - 03/26/2010
Event Type: Meeting
Subject: HIV; Immune System; Vaccine Development Research; Vaccines
Description: The major development proposed for the 2010 Keystone HIV Vaccine Symposium is to foster innovative ideas and new collaborations with immunology and vaccinology as they pertain to other viral diseases. Specifically, it is proposed that a new Joint Symposium of HIV Vaccines in conjunction with Viral Immunity be convened. This Joint Symposium would retain the format, which includes joint and separate sessions covering general and specific principles.
Sponsor: Keystone Symposia.
Contact: For more information, contact Keystone Symposia. E-mail info@keystonesymposia.org; phone (800) 253-0685 or (970) 262-1230; fax: (970) 262-1525; or access the Web site at www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/viewMeetings.cfm? MeetingID=1051&subTab=program.
Notes: Early registration deadline: January 21, 2010. Online registration deadline: March 21, 2010.

Title: 16th International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases (ISHEID 2010): From Basic Science to Clinical Practice
City: Marseille
Country: France
Dates: 03/24/2010 - 03/26/2010
Event Type: Symposium
Subject: Drug Resistance; HIV/AIDS; HIV/AIDS Treatment or Therapies; Research; Vaccine Development Research; Coinfections
Description: The 16th ISHEID congress is an international conference specifically designed by scientists to give specialists an opportunity to receive high quality scientific information, meet in a friendly atmosphere, and receive practical information for everyday use. It offers an innovative program featuring state of the art sessions on HIV and infectious diseases and welcomes the world's leading experts in infectious diseases. It also offers a unique mix of talks by international celebrities and presentations of unpublished data by young researchers. The latest developments in HIV and infectious diseases and medical trends are presented. Sessions include emerging infectious disease, pharmacology of HIV, long-term HIV management, immunology of HIV, HIV reservoirs and primary infection, HIV resistance, coinfections, HIV controllers, and information on moving toward an HIV vaccine.
Sponsor: Colloquium Paris
Contact: For more information, contact ISHEID 2010 Congress Organizing Office, c/o Colloquium Paris, 12 rue de la Croix-Faubin, 75557 Paris cedex 11, France. E-mail isheid@clq-group.com; phone +33 1 44 64 15 15; fax +33 1 44 64 15 16; or visit the Web site at www.isheid.com/site/-10ISHEID,671-?lang=eng.
Notes: Registration Fees: 355 €/before January 15, 2010; 400€/January 15-March 15; 460€ on site. Reduced rates are available for AIDS Association Members, Students/Residents (copy of student card required), Low and Middle income countries (World Bank List http://go.worldbank.org/K2CKM78CC0), and Nurses. Group rates are available. Applicants for Visa must have registered and paid their registration fees before requesting an application letter.

Title: 2010 HIV Diagnostics Conference
City: Orlando
State: FL
Country: United States
Dates: 03/24/2010 - 03/26/2010
Event Type: Conference
Subject: Diagnostic Tests; HIV Testing; Laboratory Services; Surveillance
Description: The third CDC-APHL HIV Diagnostics Conference will take place March 24 through 26, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. The purpose of the conference is to review developments and techniques for the diagnosis, monitoring, clinical management, and surveillance of HIV infection. Attendees will include laboratorians, program managers, clinicians and industry representatives that develop, provide, perform, or evaluate HIV testing services. The two and a half day program will feature poster sessions, exhibits, presentations drawn from submitted abstracts, and invited oral presentations. The conference will address HIV testing issues in the laboratory and at the point-of-care. Building on the developments from the 2007 HIV Diagnostics Conference, the 2010 meeting will serve as a forum for the evaluation of the newly proposed HIV testing algorithms.
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Association of Public Health Labs (APHL)
Contact: For more information, contact Terry Reamer, Meetings Manager. E-mail terry.reamer@aphl.org; phone (240) 485-2776; or access the Web site at www.hivtestingconference.org/.
Notes: Late-breaking abstract submissions reporting findings not available before the November 1st deadline will be accepted from December 15, 2009 to January 15, 2010.
Registration opens October 19, 2009. Registration Fee: $350/Regular; $100/students. A limited number of travel scholarships are available.

Title: Spring 2010 New & Innovative Approaches for HIV/AIDS
City: Greenbelt
State: MD
Country: United States
Dates: 03/29/2010 - 03/29/2010
Event Type: Seminar
Subject: HIV/AIDS; International Health
Description: The McGuire Group's mission is to help provide a solution for specific global health issue topics by hosting educational conferences for medical professionals, educators and decision makers who can make a difference for the cause. The company brings people together to share their expertise, information & life experiences, while networking with their colleagues and friends.
Sponsor: McGuire Group.
Contact: For more information contact Dorothea Howard, McGuire Group, Whitehall Professional Bldg, 6915 Laurel-Bowie Road, Suite 205 G, Bowie, Maryland 20715; or access the Web site: www.mcguireglobalrecruitment.com/careerFairs.php?fid=33&view=main .
Notes: Deadline for abstracts/proposals: January 31, 2010. Registration fee: $60.00/Early (thru December 31, 2009); $85.00/Regular (thru February 28, 2010).

Many of these conferences come from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control National Prevention Information Network's conference database.