HPTN Annual Meeting 2009

May 4-8, 2009

National Harbor, MD

Approximately 400 Network members attended the 2009 HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) Annual Meeting held May 4-8, 2009 at the Gaylord National Hotel in the Washington, DC area. This meeting was held in collaboration with the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) team, providing a unique opportunity for cross-Network collaboration. Representatives included staff from each Clinical Trial Unit (principal investigator, site coordinator, community educator/community advisory board member), as well as staff from Central Leadership (CORE, SDMC, CL, NIH), and other collaborating partners.

In addition below, if provided with permission by the presenter, are the presentations from the lab plenary, joint HPTN-IMPAACT plenary, and HPTN leadership retreat are posted below in PDF format.

HPTN Laboratory Plenary Presentations from May 6, 2009

FISCUS: New HIV Viral Load Assays: Platform Bake-off Finals

PIWOWAR-MANNING: New HIV Viral Load Assays: Implementation and Roll-out

TOBIAN: Male Circumcision for The Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections

LAEYENDECKER: Recent Developments in HIV Cross Sectional Incidence Testing

Joint HPTN / IMPAACT Plenary Presentations from May 7, 2009

JACKSON: State of The IMPAACT Network

PALUMBO: IMPAACT P1060

VERMUND: State of The HPTN Network

DIEFFENBACH: NIAID's Scientific Agenda, Current and Future Directions

BREWINSKI: PEPFAR Update: PMTCT and Pediatric HIV

FISHER: Prevention for Positives: Past, Present and Possible Future Directions