The Annual Clinical Care Options for HIV Symposium is "designed for and limited to 400 experienced front-line primary HIV care physicians, clinical researchers, and other advanced clinicians actively treating HIV+ patients." These leading experts and their colleagues discuss current, state-of-the-art treatment strategies in a setting that is conducive to formal teaching and informal networking.

The objectives of the Symposium are to provide:

• Advanced state-of-the-art clinical information on the treatment of HIV-related illnesses
• Scientific and clinical rationale for those treatments
• Opportunities to discuss important clinical issues and share clinical experiences in the context of recent changes in the treatment of HIV and the changing health care environment
  

The Body's coverage of the 7th Annual Clinical Care Options for HIV Symposium is being provided by Dr. Joel Gallant. Funding for this conference coverage at The Body is provided, in part, through an unrestricted educational grant by Bristol-Myers Squibb Immunology.

Symposium presentation summaries include:

• HIV Pathogenesis: Can This Disease Be Cured?
• Antiretroviral Therapy:
  Understanding the Data and Practical Approaches
• HIV Therapies: "All Things Considered" --
  A panel discussion with Q & A
• Emerging Issues in Opportunistic Infections
• Advances in Immune Reconstitution
• CMV: Pathogenesis, Viral Load and Prophylaxis Treatment Strategies
• HIV-Related Cancers: Emerging Trends and Management Issues
• HIV-Infected Women: Transmission and Management Issues

  
  

  
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  Seventh Annual Clinical Care Options for HIV Symposium