7 March 2013

This month, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) once again brought together the world’s leading researchers to further the understanding, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS. From 3-6 March, MCHIP staff joined these colleagues at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta to discuss the latest clinical research, and to present three posters on related Program work.

Now in its twentieth year, CROI is the premier annual science conference in the United States covering HIV/AIDS. Last year, 4,000 people attended the conference and more than 2,000 abstracts were submitted—only half of which were accepted. The majority of the conference content is presented by poster, and MCHIP staff was on hand in the poster hall to field questions about Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Tanzania—including about how to get older men to come in for circumcision, a life-saving preventive intervention—and on the RED (Reaching Every District) approach to preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Kenya.

An article entitled "CROI 2013 Preview: The Studies Most Likely to Make Waves" summarizes the key studies and presentations at this year's conference.