AIDS Treatment News
Table of Contents, August 18, 2000

• Side Effects, Lipodystrophy: Free Telephone Conference September 15
  A one-hour conference call will summarize new research being presented in Toronto.

• Kaletra™ (ABT-378/r) Early Access Program Can Accept More Patients
  More patients can now receive this experimental protease inhibitor.

• Scrub Typhus: Infection Reduces Viral Load in Some Patients
  The first infection known which can temporarily reduce HIV viral load may open new directions in AIDS treatment research.
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• ICAAC Research Conference: Free Telephone Summary September 19
  A one-hour expert summary of major AIDS developments at the Toronto ICAAC conference.

• ICAAC, September 17 -20 in Toronto
  We list many AIDS presentations scheduled for this major conference on new antibiotics.

• Global Resistance Day, September 16, Toronto
  Worldwide meeting will look at the increasingly serious problem of antibiotic resistance.

• Oakland, California: HIV Drug Resistance Talk, August 31
  Michelle Roland, M.D., will talk with patients and others about HIV drug resistance.

• Viral Hepatitis Summit for San Francisco Area Organizations
  Service providers can learn the basics of hepatitis C, B, and other viral liver infections in this one-day meeting.

• United States Conference on AIDS, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1-4
  Skills-building conference expects over 3,000 service providers, others.

• Health Insurance Reimbursement Legislation
  How to stop insurance companies from drastically raising medicine deductibles and copayments when patients need expensive drugs.

• Prevention: Changing Focus in San Francisco
  New statistics show troubling rise in HIV infections among gay men, decrease in heterosexual transmissions in San Francisco with needle exchange.

• ACT UP/Philadelphia Arrest Followup
  Focus now shifts to legal defense.

ISSN # 1052-4207

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