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53rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC 2013)

September 10-13, 2013, Denver

HIVR4P 2014: Positive Response to Gift Tokens for Undetectable Viral Load Trial

A U.S. study presented at last month’s HIV Research for Prevention conference found generally positive responses among people with HIV and clinic staff to a trial that used $70 gift tokens as an incentive for people to maintain an undetectable viral load. However, the study found that only just under half of patients had an accurate understanding of what viral load was, and that this did not improve during the study.

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Coverage of HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P 2016)

HIVandHepatitis.com coverage of the 2016 HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P 2016), October 17-21, in Chicago.

Conference highlights include current and experimental pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), microbicide rings and other options, and investigational HIV vaccines.

Full listing of coverage by topic

HIVR4P 2016 website

10/22/16

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HIVR4P 2014: Research for Prevention Conference Opens with Real Hope for HIV Vaccine

"There’s only one Berlin Patient still. But by this time next year he will at least be joined by 40-50 Portland monkeys." These were the words of vaccine researcher Louis Picker, summarizing in quotable form why the outlook for the development of an effective HIV vaccine is brighter than it has been for years, in a satellite session in advance of the HIV Research for Prevention conference (R4P) in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Coverage of HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P 2014)

HIVandHepatitis.com coverage of the HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P 2014), October 28-31, in Cape Town.

This conference -- combining the previous HIV Vaccines and Microbicides meetings -- includes all aspects of HIV prevention including experimental vaccines, microbicide gels and rings, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Full listing of coverage by topic

HIVR4P 2014 website

11/4/14

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HIV Research for Prevention Conference Features Advances in Vaccines, Microbicides, PrEP

The first HIV Research for Prevention -- or HIV R4P -- conference takes place this week in Cape Town, bringing together more than 1300 leading researchers, policymakers, and advocates working on interventions such as HIV vaccines, microbicides, antiretroviral treatment as prevention (TasP), and new forms of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The conference incorporates the previously separate HIV vaccine and microbicide meetings as biomedical prevention technologies have converged.

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