POSITIVELITE.COM AT IAS 2015 IN VANCOUVER

So this coming Saturday I fly across this vast country of ours to Vancouver, B.C. for IAS 2015, Otherwsie known as the 8th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, this biennial forum is the largest open scientific conference on HIV- related issues and is expected to gather some 6,000 delegates from across the globe, plus 1,000 media representatives. Including us.

Dr. Julio Montaner from the BC Centre for Excellence, the world’s leading protagonist on Treatment as Prevention, is the local co-chair. He’s an approachable though controversial figure and I’ll be interviewing him again for PositiveLite.com while in Vancouver.

I also have a planned interview with Gus Cairns form NAM/aidsmap in the UK, who besides being a poz gay men, is an impressively intelligent and informed reporter on HIV research and more and more recently an advocate for PrEP and new prevention technologies in general.

I’ll also be visiting Insite, the supervised injection facility on Vancouver’s lower east side, which has tangled with the Canada’s conservative federal government for years over the latter’s attempts to close it down. (At a former International AIDS Conference Former Health Minister Tony Clement publically hissy-fitted, calling Insite “an abomination – and you can put that on YouTube” – and stormed off.

I’ll be tweeting too. Watch for the hashtag #IAS_conference https.

For day to day coverage, NAM is the official provider of online scientific reporting at the conference and I can’t recommend them high enough. Go here for the latest.

Because of the practicalities of online reporting – conference reporters will sometimes work through the wee hours to file up-to-the-minute-bulletins, and I’m too old for that – my reports will follow once I return to Eastern Canada. So watch for them then. In the meantime, PositiveLie.com will be operating with less content. Reason: their hapless editor (i.e. me) cannot do two things at once.

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