TB/HIV Research Frontiers Meeting in conjunction with the 22nd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2015)
23 Februrary 2015, 11:30-13:30 | Sheraton Seattle Hotel, 1400 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101, USA
The 9th meeting on HIV/TB research in conjunction with CROI 2015 was organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Seattle, USA on February 23, 2015. The meeting was convened by Haileyesus Getahun and Meg Doherty of WHO and chaired by Richard Chaisson of John Hopkins University and Constance Benson of University of California, San Diego. The meeting was opened with remarks from Eric Goosby, the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis, who briefly shared his plans to support the advancement of TB research which is now included as one of the three pillars of the WHO’s new End TB Strategy.
The objective of the meeting was to discuss and promote high level scientific interchange on ideas and updates about ongoing clinical trials on empirical TB treatment for preventing early mortality in people living with HIV and assess their eventual impact on policy change. The meeting also discussed the prospect of using rifamycins for prevention of tuberculosis in resource limited settings with high TB and HIV prevalence.
- Agenda and Roadmap
pdf, 404kb - Meeting Report
pdf, 198kb - For reports of previous research meetings please click on this link.
Source: WHO
