17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), San Francisco, California
The 17th
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic
Infections (CROI) is
an annual "meeting of the minds" for basic
scientists and clinicians to
discuss ongoing research with the goal of
translating this research into
progress against the AIDS epidemic. This
year's conference covered a
range of topics include an update from the Thai
vaccine trial,
additional PrEP animal data, an update on male
circumcision scale-up,
presentations on ARV-based prevention, and
more.
Participation
in the conference itself remains out of reach
to many due to space
constraints, high cost and a limited number of
scholarship slots. To
help bring the information and dialogue from
the conference to a much
broader audience than is able to attend in
person, AVAC is conducting a
series
of post-CROI HIV prevention research
webinars. Similar to last
year's series, these webinars are meant for
anyone who is interested in
an update on the research presented at CROI,
wants to build skills for
watching presentations with a critical eye, and
understand the science.