Upcoming HIV/AIDS Conferences: March

Title: Infectious Diseases: Adult Issues in the Outpatient and Inpatient Settings
City: Sarasota
State: FL
Country: United States
Dates: 03/08/2010 - 03/12/2010
Event Type: Seminar
Subject: Adults; Diagnosis; Disease Prevention; Hepatitis; HIV/AIDS; Primary Care; Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs); Tuberculosis (TB); Infectious Diseases
Description: Following this course, the participant should be able to recognize the epidemiology and classify commonly presenting infectious diseases; identify the clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, and methods of diagnosing the presenting diseases; and apply the current recommendations of pharmacologic management, referral or follow-up, and prevention. This activity is expected to result in increased confidence in making an appropriate diagnosis and providing effective treatment and referral or follow-up care with the overall goal of improving patient outcomes. The emphasis will be on current guidelines and evidence-based medicine, as indicated within each topic's specific objectives. Since Infectious Diseases is a specialty field of medicine that affects all areas of Primary Care to include: FM, IM, EM, and Pediatrics, this course was designed to cover the spectrum of Infectious Diseases essential to all practicing physicians. Topics will be covered include HIV/AIDS, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Tuberculosis, Viral Hepatitis, and other infectious diseases.
Sponsor: American Medical Seminars, Inc.
Contact: For more information contact the American Medical Seminars, Inc., E-Mail: mail@ams4cme.com; Toll Free: (866) ams4cme (866-267-4263); Phone: (941) 388-1766; Fax: (941) 365-7073; or access the Web site: www.ams4cme.com/www/LiveSeminars/ SEMLA-2420100308.aspx.
Notes: Registration fee: Regular -- $745/Physician; $645/Non Physician; Late -- $795/Physician; $695/Non Physician. Continuing education credits are available.

Title: 14th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID)
City: Miami
State: FL
Country: United States
Dates: 03/09/2010 - 03/12/2010
Event Type: Conference
Subject: Disease Transmission; Diseases or Disorders; Infection Control; Infections; Travelers
Description: Physicians, scientists, and microbiologists who attend the 14th ICID will be able to articulate updated knowledge of developments on the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or control of infectious diseases around the world. Participants at the close of the Congress will be versed in the latest global efforts on malaria eradication; understand the history of the discovery of HIV and comprehend how the prevention of transmission of HIV will likely unfold by looking at trends and other clues from the early 21st century; understand the effect of international health and global migration on emerging infections, tropical diseases, and vaccine-preventable diseases in various mobile populations, including travelers; appreciate the impact on adults of Pneumococcal infections in children; and be aware of the microbial ecology of infectious diseases.
Sponsor: International Society for Infectious Diseases.
Contact: Access the web site at www.isid.org/14th_icid/ for pre-registration, registration, scientific program, confirmed speakers, and financial assistance.
Notes: A limited number of scholarships will be available to participants with accepted abstracts. Early registration deadline is January 15, 2010. Continuing education credits are available.

Title: HIV Vaccines
City: Banff, Alberta
Country: Canada
Dates: 03/21/2010 - 03/26/2010
Event Type: Meeting
Subject: HIV; Immune System; Vaccine Development Research; Vaccines
Description: The major development proposed for the 2010 Keystone HIV Vaccine Symposium is to foster innovative ideas and new collaborations with immunology and vaccinology as they pertain to other viral diseases. Specifically, it is proposed that a new Joint Symposium of HIV Vaccines in conjunction with Viral Immunity be convened. This Joint Symposium would retain the format, which includes joint and separate sessions covering general and specific principles.
Sponsor: Keystone Symposia.
Contact: For more information, contact Keystone Symposia. E-mail info@keystonesymposia.org; phone (800) 253-0685 or (970) 262-1230; fax: (970) 262-1525; or access the Web site at www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/viewMeetings.cfm? MeetingID=1051&subTab=program.
Notes: Early registration deadline: January 21, 2010. Online registration deadline: March 21, 2010.

Title: 2010 HIV Diagnostics Conference
City: Orlando
State: FL
Country: United States
Dates: 03/24/2010 - 03/26/2010
Event Type: Conference
Subject: Diagnostic Tests; HIV Testing; Laboratory Services; Surveillance
Description: The third CDC-APHL HIV Diagnostics Conference will take place March 24 through 26, 2010 in Orlando, Florida. The purpose of the conference is to review developments and techniques for the diagnosis, monitoring, clinical management, and surveillance of HIV infection. Attendees will include laboratorians, program managers, clinicians and industry representatives that develop, provide, perform, or evaluate HIV testing services. The two and a half day program will feature poster sessions, exhibits, presentations drawn from submitted abstracts, and invited oral presentations. The conference will address HIV testing issues in the laboratory and at the point-of-care. Building on the developments from the 2007 HIV Diagnostics Conference, the 2010 meeting will serve as a forum for the evaluation of the newly proposed HIV testing algorithms.
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Association of Public Health Labs (APHL)
Contact: For more information, contact Terry Reamer, Meetings Manager. E-mail terry.reamer@aphl.org; phone (240) 485-2776; or access the Web site at www.hivtestingconference.org/.
Notes: Late-breaking abstract submissions reporting findings not available before the November 1st deadline will be accepted from December 15, 2009 to January 15, 2010.
Registration opens October 19, 2009. Registration Fee: $350/Regular; $100/students. A limited number of travel scholarships are available.

Many of these conferences come from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control National Prevention Information Network's conference database.