AIDSinfo At-a-Glance

Issue No. 3

January 18, 2006 

AIDSinfo.nih.gov is pleased to provide you with a weekly update of highlights about what has happened in the world of HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research. We hope you find this encapsulated view of HIV/AIDS news useful.  

NIAID Halts International HIV/AIDS Strategic Management of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (SMART) Trial

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that it has stopped enrollment into a large international HIV/AIDS trial comparing continuous antiretroviral therapy with episodic drug treatment guided by levels of CD4+ cells. This trial found that continuous antiretroviral therapy is superior to episodic therapy. However, enrollment was stopped because those patients receiving episodic therapy had twice the risk of disease progression (the development of clinical AIDS or death), the major outcome of the study.

NIAID made the decision to halt enrollment in collaboration with the study’s Executive Committee and following a recommendation received from an independent Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB). To read the full news release on this trial go to: http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ContentFiles/SMART_trial_ends_early.pdf. To view the Questions and Answers document that NIAID has created about this SMART trial go to: http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ContentFiles/SMART_trial_ends_early_QA.pdf.

The 2006 National Conference on African-Americans and AIDS

The 2006 National Conference on African-Americans and AIDS will take place February 27-28 in Philadelphia, PA. This conference is a national forum on HIV/AIDS for Health Professionals
who provide care for African-Americans. It will help health care providers update their knowledge, skills, and attitudes about HIV/AIDS. The conference was also designed for health care media, federal and state legislators, AIDS service organization officers, social workers, pharmacists, nurses, peer counselors, church leadership, and corrections healthcare personnel.

Participants will learn about the following:

<      Epidemiology of HIV in the United States

<      Current guidelines

<      Cutting edge clinical management of HIV

<      Current research encompassing drug abuse and its connection to the HIV epidemic

<      Social and psychiatric concerns of the HIV-infected patient

<      Policy initiatives, trends and political issues which impact all HIV-infected patients

To read more about the program schedule go to:http://www.minority-healthcare.com/ncaa_2006/program.html

To register or get more information about this important event go to: http://www.minority-healthcare.com/ncaa_2006/index.html

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