National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project, NYU/Bellevue Center for AIDS Research CFAR) and The AIDS Clinical Trials Unit present; Community Lecture Series on Emergine Issues on HIV/AIDS Therapies Fifth in a Series of NATAP Seminars: Current Issues in Treatment

National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project, NYU/Bellevue Center for AIDS Research CFAR) and The AIDS Clinical Trials Unit present:
Community Lecture Series on Emergine Issues on HIV/AIDS Therapies Fifth in a Series of NATAP Seminars	HIV Current Issues in Treatment
Report from the International AIDS Conference in Geneva Saturday, July 18, 1998 NYU Medical Center, Farkas Auditorium East 31st Street and 1st Avenue 10 am - 3 pm
Speakers Trip Gulick, MD Cornell-New York Hospital, Chelsea Center Nick Hellman, MD ViroLogic, Inc (Phenotypic Test Maker) James Jones, MD Manhattan Medical Center Brendan Larder, PhD and Rudi Pauwells, PhD Virco-Belgium (Phenotypic Test Maker) Doug Mayers, MD Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit Jean-Louis Salinas, MD Boriken Family Health Center Fred Valentine NYU/Bellevue Medical Center Moderator: Jules Levin, Executive Director, NATAP	Topics Review of the latest treatment information from Geneva Phenotypic and genotypic resistance testing Data on new drugs-- 141W94, Efavirenz, Adefovir, 1592U89 A Special Report from the June International Resistance Workshop in Milan HIV Pathogenesis, viral dynamics, viral life cycle, immune restoration, and viral reservoirs The latest data on lowering viral load to below 50 copies Adherence: How it relates to resistance and methods to improve it Preventing treatment failure Improving the patient/doctor relationship Question and Answer after each speaker
Co-Sponsors: AIDS Services, Black Leadership Council, Body Positive, Bronx AIDS Task Force, Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, Caribbean Women's Health Organization, Community Prescription Service, Community Research Initiative on AIDS, Exponents/Arrive, Gay Men of African Descent, Greenwick House, Haitian Women's Program, Iris House, Latino Commission on AIDS, Life Force, Minority Task Force on AIDS, Mt. Sinai AIDS Center, Music Against Drugs, NYU/Bellevue AIDS, ACTU, PWA Coalition-NY, St. Vincent's AIDS Clinic, Stadtlanders Pharmacy, Staten Island AIDS Task Force, The Village Apothecary, Woodhull Medical Center AIDS Center Program.