Richard Ogden
RORR Inc., USA
Title: HIV/AIDS: A Review of Current Treatment, Prevention and Cure Research
Biography
Biography: Richard Ogden
Abstract
The impact of HIV/AIDS continues to affect tens of millions of individuals worldwide. Affordable and relatively tolerable treatment options are available in an increasing area of the developed and developing world. As a consequence, prevention, including that of mother to child transmission, and the management of an ageing infected population is a major focus of the research and treatment community. It is still the case that individuals who successfully suppress viral replication experience a shorter life expectancy and greater incidence of morbidity including frailty, cardiovascular disease and end stage liver disease, especially in the case of co-infection with Hepatitis.
This talk will review the current state of art in treatment, prevention and the management of co-infection for those affected. New drugs in development are still needed to combat the continuing emergence of drug resistance and the prospect of a vaccine or of a ‘cure’ are still very much in the realm of basic research. These latter topics will also be reviewed.