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The International AIDS Conference (abbreviated AIDS 2012, AIDS 2014 and so on) is the world's most attended conference on HIV and AIDS, and the largest conference on any global health or development issue in the world. [7] First convened during the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1985, they were held annually until 1994 when they became biennial.
The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is an annual scientific meeting devoted to the understanding, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and the opportunistic infections associated with AIDS. Thousands of leading researchers and clinicians from around the world convene in a different location in North America each ...
X International AIDS Conference, 1994; XI International AIDS Conference, 1996; XII International AIDS Conference, 1998; XIII International AIDS Conference, 2000; XIV International AIDS Conference, 2002; XV International AIDS Conference, 2004; XVI International AIDS Conference, 2006; XVII International AIDS Conference, 2008; XVIII International ...
At the 2024 International AIDS Conference, PrEP with long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA; Apretude) appears safe during pregnancy among cisgender women, according to an analysis from the HPTN 084 open-label extension trial. [120]
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched on 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day. Zackie Achmat, whom The New Yorker calls "the most important dissident in the country since Nelson Mandela", [3] joined with a group of ten other activists to found the group after anti-apartheid gay rights activist Simon Nkoli died from AIDS even as highly active antiretroviral therapy was ...
This concept of three-drug therapy was quickly incorporated into clinical practice and rapidly showed impressive benefit with a 60% to 80% decline in rates of AIDS, death, and hospitalization. [2] It would also create a new period of optimism at the 11th International AIDS Conference that was held in Vancouver that year. [128]
The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), a registered UK charity, [1] is an international network run for and by HIV positive women.ICW was established to support programs designed to safeguard and improve the quality of life for women living with HIV.
The Global Fund’s investments have reduced deaths from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria by 61% since 2002, saving 65 million lives. [27] Recent efforts include lowering the cost of key treatments for drug-resistant TB by 55% and first-line HIV medications by 25%, while introducing a more effective insecticide-treated mosquito net. [28]