15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections

The People With AIDS Coalition of Utah
is hosting a 2 hour viewing of
"Treatment Update 2008"

Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Time: 4:00 pm
Location: University of Utah Medical Center
50 North Medical Drive
Room 4A440
Salt Lake City, UT


Please contact us at 801-484-2205 if you are interested in attending.

From the 15TH Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
(CROI)



ABOUT CROI:

CROI (the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections) is
the pre-eminent annual international conference on HIV/AIDS. CROI is a
scientifically focused meeting of the worlds leading researchers
working to understand, prevent, and treat HIV/AIDS and its related
complications. The purpose of the annual conference is to provide a
forum for translating laboratory and clinical research into medical
applications. This year the conference will be held in Boston ,
Massachusetts , February 3-6, 2008, and is expected to draw over 3,800
leading researchers from all over the world.

ABOUT "Treatment Update 2008":

Treatment Update is a series of televised panel discussions
surrounding the significant findings and presentations at the CROI.
The Treatment Update 2008 program will be very similar to past
Treatment Update programs. The Update panelists will discuss what they
believe to be the most important works from CROI that might translate
into clinical care for people living with HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C. The
program will include excerpts of interviews with some of the leading
scientists in the world. The program will include the following segments:

"Antiviral Treatments" hosted by Matt Sharp-TPAN, Chicago . With Paul
Sax, MD (HIV Program Director, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston,
MA; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), Rick
Elion, MD (George Washington University, Washington, DC), Martin
Delaney (Founding Director, Project Inform, San Francisco, CA)

"Metabolic Issues" hosted by Nelson Vergel, PoWeR, Houston , Texas .
With Pablo Tebas (MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,
Philadelphia, PA), Donald Kotler (MD, St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital,
New York, NY), Kathy Mulligan (MD, University of California, San
Francisco, CA).

"Hepatitis Issues" hosted by Jules Levin or Tracy Swan, TAG New York,
NY. With Doug Dietrich, MD (Chief Medical Officer, Dept of Medicine,
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY), Ken Sherman, PhD (Gould
Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Digestive Diseases,
Cincinnati, OH), and Jay Kostman, MD (Head, Division of Infectious
Disease, Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA).

Special Note: The "IFARA CROI Media Project 2008" also includes a
program entitled "Treatment Issues for Women" (one-hour program) and
"Actualización de Tratamientos 2008" (Spanish language one-hour HIV
update program), which will only be available on delayed DishNetwork
broadcast, the IFARA website and on DVD.

"Treatment Issues for Women" will be hosted by Cathy Olufs,
CorrectHelp, Los Angeles , CA . With Kathleen Squires , MD ( Jefferson
Medical College , Philadelphia , PA ), Vicki Cargill, MD (Office of
AIDS Research NIH, Bethesda , MD ), and Kimberly Smith MD, MPH
(Associate Professor of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center ,
Chicago , IL ).

"Actualización de Tratamientos 2008" will be hosted by Rob Camp. With
Pedro Cahn, MD (Chief ID's, University of Buenos Aires Medical School,
Buenos Aires, Argentina), Bonaventura Clotet, MD, PhD (fundacion
"Irsicaixa" Hospital Universitari, Badalona, Spain), Fernando Dronda
ME, PhD (Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain), Esteban Martinez MD
(Senior Specialist, Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Clinic,
Barcelona, Spain).

CROI Press Conferences and interviews with researchers in the fight
against AIDS will be available at: www.IFARATV.org




The People With AIDS Coalition of Utah is dedicated to providing
educational and support services that enhance the quality of life for
all people impacted by HIV / AIDS.

PWACU was established in 1988, since then we have become an integral
part of Utah 's HIV / AIDS community by providing several unique
services throughout Utah .


People With AIDS Coalition of Utah
1055 E. 2100 S., Suite 208
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
801.484.2205  fax: 801.484.2665
website: www.PWACU.org
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