Abstracts & Presentations from the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention

The 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention took place last week in Rome. All abstracts and many of the presentations can be accessed via the conference website, in several different ways. The main programme-at-a-glance page requires downloading Microsoft Silverlight to work properly, but a simpler version that does not need any plug-ins is also available. All conference abstracts can be accessed via an HTML page which allows searching and sorting by track, abstract type, session, etc. 

For accessing presentations, use the browse sessions page to find individual sessions; abstracts and (in some cases) slides with audio and Powerpoint download links are to the left of each presentation title. Note that the Powerpoint download links immediately to the left of presentation titles may not appear to work on many browsers; there are however working links that can be found by scrolling further down the page. 

These are direct links to some of the sessions relevant to basic science, vaccines & biomedical prevention:

Sunday, July 17

Controlling the HIV Epidemic, the Promise of ARV-based Prevention (non-commercial satellite)

Monday, July 18

Plenary Session:

The changing face of HIV vaccine research - Gary Nabel, United States

The combined approach to preventing HIV infection - Robin Shattock, United Kingdom

Reservoirs and Mechanism of Disease Progression

Advancement of Science and Research on HIV

Pathogenesis and Management of Long-Term Complications of ART (workshop) 

Treatment Is Prevention: The Proof Is Here (includes presentations on the HPTN 052 trial results)

1981-2011: Thirty Years Later, What We Know and Don't Know on How HIV Causes AIDS

Controversies in HIV Cure Research (non-commercial satellite)

Tuesday, July 19

NAPWAs' Treatment Horizons: Pathways to a Functional Cure (non-commercial satellite)

Preventive and Therapeutic HIV Vaccines: Novel Candidates and Strategies in 2011

Treatment as Prevention: Report back from the Vancouver Workshop 

Immune Activation/Inflammation and HIV Disease

Use of Antivirals in Prevention: Current Challenges and Controversies

Wednesday, July 20

Plenary Session:

Towards an HIV Cure - Eric Verdin, Belgium

Towards an HIV Cure: New Strategies for an Old Challenge

Models of Protection

Towards an HIV Cure: Insight into Residual Viral Replication, Establishment of Reservoirs and Understanding Mechanism of Persistence

Late Breaker Track A

Rapporteur and Closing Session