There have been many conferences on HIV around the world, where scientists and researchers in this field gather and share their new discoveries and knowledge on this epidemic.

 

Below are few important conferences that have taken place in recent years:

 

 

 

The 9th East-West Medicine Symposium, London 2004, Discussion Topics:

 

International collaboration and globalisation of medicine

–         The formation of global medicine

 

Clinical integration

–         The use of Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine in clinical practice

 

Towards the future

–         Research and medical methodology: Evidence-Based-Medicine (EBM) & Dialectical-Based-Medicine (DBM)

–         Global issues related to medical education

 

 

 

13th International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases, Toulon 2004:

 

–         HIV, Virology

 

–         Future Directions in Antiretroviral Therapy HIV, Antiretroviral Strategies

 

–         HIV, Immunology

 

–         HIV, Pharmacology

 

–         HIV, HAART Adverse Effects

 

 

 

Africa First Conference, Ghana 2006, March 14 2006 - March 18 2006: http://www.africa-first.com/gsaidstmik2006/SPEAKERS.htm

 

–         Understanding HIV/AIDS and Traditional Healing

 

–         Interactions of HIV-1 – Host Cells: Immunomodulation in the HIV-1/Trypanosomatids Co-infection Model

 

–         Recent Global Developments in Scaling Up HIV Treatment

 

–         Prevention of HIV/AIDS - A View from African Traditional Medicine

 

–         The Challenges of Traditional Healing and HIV/AIDS

 

–         Practice Outcomes Documentation System: A New Methodology for Conducting Research on Traditional Medicine for HIV/AIDS

 

–         Contribution of Traditional Healers to the Prevention and Reduction of HIV/AIDS in Mali

 

–         Traditional Medicine and HIV/AIDS in the WHO African Region

 

–         National Response to HIV/AIDS in The Gambia

 

–         Strengthening Relationship between the National AIDS/STI Program and the Swaziland Traditional Healers Association in combating HIV/AIDS

 

–         The Need To Use The Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) as a Gold Standard to Evaluate The Efficacies of Medicinal Plants as Anti-retroviral Therapy Against HIV and AIDS

 

–         The HIV/AIDS Situation in Liberia and Traditional Healers Treatment of People Living with HIV/AIDS

 

–         Strengthening Relationship between the National AIDS/STI Program and the Swaziland Traditional Healers Association in combating HIV/AIDS

 

–         Conventional and Traditional Modules of Treating HIV/AIDS and other diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis

 

–         Pre-clinical and Clinical Evaluation of Herbal Medicines for the Treatment of HIV/AIDS

 

–         Nutrition Intervention Using Local Ghanaian Diets: Impact and Recommendations

 

–         “HIV and Traditional Chinese Medicine – a Source of Hope!” by Professor Duo Gao, Chairman, Anglo-Chinese Doctor Society and Professor Yilan Shen, both of Herbal King Group of Clinics, England.

 

In this conference Professor Gao discussed the effect of Chinese medicine in treatment of HIV and the possibility by which Chinese medicine can be a source of hope in treating HIV successfully.