Beginning 29 June, Theo Smart (and perhaps others) will be live tweeting, blogging, and posting articles to this site from the 7nth IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2013). IAS 2013, the world’s largest open scientific conference on HIV/AIDS – will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC ) in …
Background: Again, I realise it is very very late in the game, but I would like to try to raise support to cover the International AIDS Society conference in Kuala Lumpur Reasons for covering the meeting: This is the most important international HIV science meeting which takes place every two years. Date of the conference: …
*FUNDED!* Theo Smart Project #2: Partial support to cover IAS 2013 Read More »
In a little over a week’s time, the new WHO Consolidated Guidelines on the use of ART for HIV Treatment and Prevention are expected to be released at IAS 2013 in Kuala Lumpur. As the discussion below about Gallant et al’s editorial on whether the world is ready for the US-style ‘treatment for all PLHIV’ …
The Global Database of National HIV/AIDS Guidelines Read More »
I’m going to take Joel Gallant (who I greatly admire) and colleagues to task a bit for the *tone* and timing of their just published piece in CID, “Universal Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection: Should U.S. Treatment Guidelines Be Applied to Resource‐Limited Settings?”, which states that “new U.S. guidelines recommending ART for all HIV‐infected patients …
Gallant et al’s editorial on ART guidelines in resource poor settings Read More »
Background: I realise it is very very late in the game, but I would like to find support to cover the upcoming South African AIDS Conference in Durban South Africa. Reasons for covering the meeting: This is an important regional meeting that takes place every two years near the eye of the storm for the …
Theo Smart Project #1: Reporting on the 6th South African AIDS Conference Read More »
Full version of part one of this series posted above.
WHO’s 2013 antiretroviral therapy (ART) guidelines will recommend earlier initiation of ART (at CD4 counts below 500 cells) but will “still prioritise treating patients who are symptomatic as well as those with CD4 cell counts less than 350,” according to Dr Meg Doherty, of WHO’s HIV Department who presented the yet-to-be-finalised 2013 Antiretroviral (ART) guidelines …
Theo Smart is an HIV activist and medical writer who joined ACT UP New York in 1988 and has more than twenty years of experience writing about HIV treatment for organisations including ACT UP’s Treatment & Data Committee, TAG, the PWA Health Group, GMHC, the Physician’s Research Network in New York and AmFAR. After the …
Lance Sherriff began reporting on HIV/AIDS almost ten years ago (http://www.aidsmap.com/Cost-of-care-shown-to-be-primary-barrier-to-adherence-in-African-study/page/1416992/). He specialises in recording, photographing and filming conferences and other medical meetings, and performing interviews, then subsequently producing medical transcriptions. If you need to document a meeting or need medical transcription services, please contact him.