A blog about the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, August 13-18, 2006.
A blog about the 16th International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 13-18, 2006.
AIDS at 25: Special coverage on seedmagazine.com
August 19, 2006
Category: The Science of HIV/AIDS
Razib over at Gene Expression has an excellent post about cultural issues affecting HIV and circumcision, elaborating on Lindsay's mention here of the limitations of trying to increase circumcision as a way to reduce viral spread: There was a strong...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 6:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Science of HIV/AIDS
One catchphrase that permeated the conference this past week was "scaling up." I just want to wrap up my posting here with a brief discussion of what that is, and what that means as far as HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Miscellaneous
...from a non-attendee. As Hannah and Lindsay (and others around the blogosphere and news media) submitted their stories from the front lines, so to speak, a few things jumped out at me regarding how this conference seems to be a...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2006
Category: Miscellaneous
As the conference wraps up, I just want to be sure to point you to some other areas where AIDS is being covered on ScienceBlogs. Every week, our Seed overlords pose a question to us (originally titled, "Ask a ScienceBlogger.")...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 4:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conference Sessions
The theme of the conference was Time to Deliver. But did they? At the closing ceremony UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Stephen Lewis called upon the governments of all nations to deliver on their funding promises. "We are...
Posted by Hannah Hoag at 4:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conference Sessions
For a serious conference, there were a lot of laughs at the closing ceremony. Mark Wainberg: "Many people have said that this was one of the best conferences ever at linking the north and the south. I hope they were...
Posted by Hannah Hoag at 3:17 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Dispatches From Toronto
The closing day of the AIDS conference, when delegates were celebrating their accomplishments over the past two years and renewing their pledge to bring an end to the HIV pandemic, brought news of the arrest of prominent AIDS activist Zackie...
Posted by Lindsay Borthwick at 1:57 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: The Science of HIV/AIDS
I mentioned yesterday that one way to help prevent new HIV infections is to treat people who are infected with herpes, another sexually-transmittted virus that infects as much as 20% of the population in the United States. That may seem...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Conference Sessions
I saw my first pillowcase stenciled with the words "Fight AIDS: Fund Health Workers Now" at the opening ceremonies. Then, Wednesday night, I nearly tripped over the one pictured at right as I exited the conference center. On opening...
Posted by Lindsay Borthwick at 10:00 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2006
Category: Conference Sessions
Ever since opening night of AIDS 2006, when Bill & Melinda Gates held the rapt attention of the crowd at Toronto's Rogers Centre and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was no where to be found, I've been wondering whether celebrity...
Posted by Lindsay Borthwick at 9:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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