HIV/AIDS: Strategies for an Endgame

Description

Keystone Symposia LivePanel:

HIV/AIDS: Strategies for an Endgame

Broadcast live on December 13, 2013, this 90-minute interactive webcast featured a panel of five experts in the HIV/AIDS research field. Discussion focused on several key areas:

• What is the quickest, most effective way to end the AIDS epidemic?
• How should priorities be determined for different strategies — in particular, pre-exposure prophylaxis and vaccines?
• What are the merits of each of these approaches that make it the optimal strategy?

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About Keystone Symposia:

Keystone Symposia is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1972 that convenes 50-60 open, international scientific research conferences each year across the full range of the life sciences – from cardiovascular disease to immunology to neurobiology. The conferences accelerate life science discovery by bringing together and fostering collaboration among the world’s leading and next generation of research scientists.

Website: www.keystonesymposia.org

Moderator(s):

• Bruce D. Walker, MD, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard

Panelist(s):

• Myron S. Cohen, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Betsy Herold, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Julie McElrath, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC)
• Gary Nabel, MD, PhD, Sanofi