AIDS research meet at,Chandigarh,PGI MER

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Meet on AIDS research at,Chandigarh,PGI on January 10

Express News Service

Chandigarh, January 7: Under the Indo-US Continued Medical Education

(CME) on HIV/AIDS, a two-day symposium on " Recent Advances in AIDS

Research " is being organised at PGIMER, Chandigarh, on January 10. The

programme is part of the AIDS International Training and Research

Programme (AITRP) and is being sponsored by the Fogarty International

Centre at the National Institute of Health, land, USA.

On Day One, several issues related to HIV/AIDS that are of interest to

the general public and medical personnel will be discussed. This will

include prevalence of the disease in India, its diagnosis, clinical

presentation, treatment, occupational exposure and specific issues

related to TB in HIV infected patients.

On Day Two, the speakers will focus on recent advances in AIDS

research such as the control of the disease by helper T cells and

antibodies, HIV vaccine development and TB co-infection. The panel

will also discuss the advances made in the field of early diagnosis of

the disease.

The symposium will be attended by more than 20 speakers from USA and

India, who would deliberate upon issues related to AIDS

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