Sponsored by the Foundation for Retrovirology and Human Health in scientific collaboration with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

February 24–28, 2002 Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA

The 9th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is a scientifically focused meeting of the world's leading researchers working to understand, prevent, and treat HIV/AIDS and its complications. The goal of the Retrovirus Conference is to provide a forum for translating laboratory and clinical research into medical applications.

The subjects that will be highlighted are: virology, immunology, vaccines, pathogenesis, disease mechanisms in humans and animal models, primary/acute infection, host-virus interactions, antiretroviral therapy (preclinical, clinical, complications, immune-based therapies, and treatment strategies), neuropathogenesis and neurologic complications, opportunistic infections, hepatitis virus co-infections, epidemiology and infection control, pediatrics/maternal-fetal studies, HIV infection in women/women’s health, diagnostics, microbicides, and clinical pharmacology.

The meeting will feature the Seventh Annual Bernard Fields Memorial Lecture, a special Keynote Lecture by Bill Gates,  8 plenary lectures that will be highly scientific in nature, 7 roundtable symposia that will present and debate controversial scientific issues, over 800 original oral abstract and poster presentations of new data, and 17 late breakers that will consist of important preliminary research findings.