Abstract Categories

• Basic retrovirology including non-HIV retroviruses (SIV, HTLV-1, etc)
• Viral diversity and bioinformatics
• Pathogenesis
• Immunology
• HIV drug resistance
• AIDS vaccines (preventative and therapeutic) and microbicides (pre-clinical)
• Drug development (pre-clinical)
• Gene therapy

• Course of infection and disease
• Diagnosis and monitoring tools
• HIV-associated diseases
• Antiretroviral therapies (strategic categories apply to resource rich and constrained settings)
• Health systems and delivery of antiretroviral therapies and care- (in resource rich and constrained settings)
• Children and adolescents-specific issues
• Complications of therapy and adherence
• Other therapies
• Provision of care and therapy

Track C: Epidemiology, Prevention and Prevention
              Research

• Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS
• Methodological issues and capacity-building in epidemiological and prevention research
• HIV/AIDS surveillance, monitoring and evaluation
• Evaluation of biomedical interventions to prevent HIV
• Evaluation of behavioural interventions to prevent HIV
• Prevention programmes

• Social and economic contexts
• Gender, age, race and ethnicity
• Sexuality and sexual cultures
• Drug and substance use
• Living with HIV/AIDS
• Economic, social and related issues
• Social, behavioural and economic methods and theories
• Evaluation of AIDS national programmes and responses

• Politics and policy development
• Policy implementation and impact
• Policy analysis, monitoring and evaluation
• Human rights, law and ethics
• Actors’ roles and responsibilities
• Security, international relations and humanitarian disasters
• International responses and funding
• Impact of HIV/AIDS on other policy areas