CROI 2010 - Full Sessions Abstracts

Sessions 1-204/204
 

  1. Program Committee Workshop for New Investigators and Trainees

    1. HIV Virology and Pathogenesis: Emerging Concepts
    2. HIV Immunology and Vaccines
    3. HIV Transmission: The Role of Neutralizing Antibodies
    4. Global Epidemiology
    5. HIV Prevention
    6. ART is great
    7. Complications of HIV Disease and ART
    8. Community Involvement in AIDS Research: Past, Present, and Future


  2. Frontiers in Laboratory Science Workshop

    1. Sensitive Population Profiling and Genome Assembly of HIV Using Ultra-deep Sequencing Technologies
    2. Whole Genome Sequencing and the Control of HIV-1
    3. Can Systems and Computational Virology Help Us Understand AIDS Pathogenesis and Develop Better Drugs and Vaccines?
    4. Pitfalls in Analysis of Large-scale Data


  3. Guiding the Global Response

    1. Put Your Money Where Your Model Is: ART for the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS
    2. HIV in Couples
    3. Evolving Realities of HIV Treatment in Resource-limited Settings


  4. The Future of PEPFAR

    1. The Future of PEPFAR: Moving Forward from Lessons Learned


  5. The HIV/AIDS Research Agenda: A View from NIAID

    1. The HIV/AIDS Research Agenda: A View from NIAID


  6. 15th Bernard Fields Lecture and 4th N'Galy-Mann Lecture

    1. Transmitted/Founder Viruses and Their Progeny in Acute HIV-1 and SIV Infection
    2. Saints and Sinners: A Story of HIV from India


  7. Putting the “C” into MTCT—Saving Kids

    1. Putting the “C” into MTCT—Saving Kids


  8. HIV-1 Assembly, Release, and Maturation

    1. HIV-1 Assembly, Release, and Maturation


  9. Developments in the Epidemiology of SIV/HIV in AIDS-related Malignancies

    1. Molecular Epidemiology of SIV Infection in Wild-living Gorillas in Western Equatorial Africa
    2. HIV-1 Group P: Confirmation of Group P in Cameroon
    3. The Role of Recombination in the Emergence of a Complex and Dynamic HIV Epidemic
    4. Cancer Incidence and Cancer-attributable Mortality among Persons with AIDS in the US
    5. Immunodeficiency, HIV RNA Levels, and Risk of Non-AIDS-defining Cancers
    6. Effectiveness of a Program to Prevent Cervical Cancer among HIV-infected Women in Zambia
    7. HIV Infection Is an Independent Risk Factor for Lung Cancer
    8. A Phase II Study Targeting Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor with the Humanized Monoclonal Antibody Bevacizumab in the Treatment of Patients with HIV-associated Kaposi Sarcoma
    9. The KAART Trial: A Randomized Controlled Trial of HAART Compared to the Combination of HAART and Chemotherapy in Treatment Naive Patients with HIV-associated Kaposi’s Sarcoma in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa NCT 00380770


  10. Testing and Transmission

    1. Decreases in Community Viral Load Are Associated with a Reduction in New HIV Diagnoses in San Francisco
    2. Monitoring the Impact of Expanded HIV Testing in the District of Columbia Using Population-based HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data
    3. Increasing Trend in HIV-1 Incidence among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Amsterdam: A 25-year Prospective Cohort Study
    4. Population-based HIV Incidence in France, 2003 to 2008
    5. Trends in HIV Prevalence, Incidence, and Risk Behaviors Among Children, Youth, and Adults in South Africa, 2002 to 2008
    6. HIV Transmission Risk among HIV-infected Adults in Kenya: Results of a Population-based Survey
    7. Female Clients and Partners of MSM Sex Workers in Mombasa, Kenya
    8. Factors Associated with HIV Discordance in Married or Cohabitating Couples: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey in Kenya


  11. What’s New in Immunopathogenesis

    1. Dramatic Changes in Fc-Receptor Expression during HIV-1 Infection Associated with Reduced Phagocytic Activity during Progressive HIV-1 Infection
    2. Evolution of Neutralizing Antibody Responses and Viral Escape Continues until Advanced Infection and Is Associated with Broad Neutralizing Antibody Activity
    3. Adaptation of HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein to Humoral Immunity at a Population Level
    4. Damage to Mucosal Integrity Correlates with Increased Microbial Translocation and Loss of NK Cells, and Is Associated with Rapid SIV Disease Progression in Pigtail Macaques
    5. Interleukin-21 Immune-mediated Control of HIV-1 by HIV-1-specific CD8 T Cells
    6. Antiviral Suppressive Capacity of CD8+ T Cells ex vivo Is Strongly Associated with the Rate of CD4 Cell Loss in Chronic HIV-1 Infection
    7. Immune Failure after Suppressive ART: High Level CD4 and CD8 T Cell Activation but Only Memory CD4 Cells Are Cycling
    8. Systems Biology Approaches to the Understanding of HIV Immunopathogenesis


  12. Advances in ART

    1. First-in-class Inhibitors of LEDGF/p75-integrase Interaction and HIV replication
    2. Discovery of Potent HIV-1 Capsid Assembly Inhibitors
    3. Instantaneous Inhibitory Potential Is Similar to Inhibitory Quotient at Predicting HIV-1 Response to ART
    4. Multiple Equilibrium Model Predicts Class-specific Steep Dose-response Curve Slope for Anti-HIV-1 Drugs
    5. Safety and Efficacy of TBR 652, a CCR5 Antagonist, in HIV-1-infected, ART-experienced, CCR5 Antagonist-naïve Patients
    6. Phase 3 Trials of Vicriviroc in Treatment-experienced Subjects Demonstrate Safety but Not Significantly Superior Efficacy over Potent Background Regimens Alone
    7. The Discovery of S/GSK1349572: A Once-daily Next Generation Integrase Inhibitor with a Superior Resistance Profile
    8. Risk of WHO 4 Events and Death by Current CD4 on ART in the DART Trial: The Impact of CD4-dependent Reporting Bias
    9. Efficacy and Safety at 48 Weeks of Once-daily vs Twice-daily DRV/r in Treatment-experienced HIV-1+ Patients with No DRV Resistance-associated Mutations: The ODIN Trial
    10. Single-tablet, Fixed-dose Regimen of Elvitegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate/GS-9350 Achieves a High Rate of Virologic Suppression and GS-9350 Is an Effective Booster
    11. ACTG 5202: Final Results of ABC/3TC or TDF/FTC with either EFV or ATV/r in Treatment-naive HIV-infected Patients


  13. TD: NeuroAIDS Treatment Issues and Controversies

    1. Higher CD4 Nadir Is Associated with Reduced Rates of HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders in the CHARTER Study: Potential Implications for Early Treatment Initiation
    2. Correlates of Time-to-Loss-of-Viral-Response in CSF and Plasma in the CHARTER Cohort
    3. No Decrease in Intrathecal Immunoactivation during Treatment Intensification in Patients on Stable ART
    4. CSF Escape Is Uncommon in HIV-1-infected Patients on Stable ART
    5. Neuropsychological Performance Is Better in HIV-infected Subjects Treated with Neuroactive HAART
    6. cART Alters Changes in Cerebral Function Testing after 48 Weeks in Treatment-naïve, HIV-1-infected Subjects Commencing cART
    7. CNS Toxicity of Antiretroviral Drugs


  14. TD: What Monkey Models Can Teach Us about HIV Infection

    1. CCR5 Blockade Alters the in vivo Trafficking of CCR5+ and CD25+ T Cells in Healthy, SIV-uninfected Rhesus Macaques
    2. SIVmac239-mediated Down-modulation of Integrin alpha4beta7 on Infected Cells
    3. Systems Biology Analysis of CD8 Lymphocyte Depletion in SIV-infected Rhesus Macaques
    4. Chronic SIV Infection Perturbs the Functional and Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Macaque NK Cell Subsets
    5. Natural Killer T Cells in Sooty Mangabeys Are Phenotypically Distinct from Asian Macaques and Are Maintained following SIV Infection
    6. Nonpathogenic SIV Infection of Sooty Mangabeys Induces an LPS-specific Reduction in Monocyte Inflammatory Cytokine Production


  15. TD: Prediction of HIV Co-receptor Use

    1. Predicting HIV-1 Co-receptor Usage and Response to CCR5 Inhibitor Therapy through Episomal cDNA
    2. Determining HIV-1 Coreceptor Tropism Using PBMC Proviral DNA Derived from Aviremic Blood Samples
    3. New V3-genetic Signatures Modulate Co-receptor Usage in vivo and the Interaction with CCR5 N-terminus
    4. A Highly Sensitive and Specific Model for Predicting HIV-1 Tropism in Treatment-Experienced Patients Combining V3 Loop Sequences Interpretation and Clinical Parameters
    5. High Resolution Tropism Kinetics by Quantitative Deep Sequencing in HIV-1-infected Subjects Initiating Suppressive First-line ART
    6. Large-scale Application of Deep Sequencing Using 454 Technology to HIV Tropism Screening


  16. TD: Hepatitis B and C: The Next Chapter in the Management of HIV in Resource-limited Countries

    1. High Prevalence of Unexplained Liver Fibrosis Associated with HIV in Rural Southwestern Uganda
    2. Response to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Hepatitis B and HIV Co-infected West Africans
    3. Factors Associated with Hepatotoxicity in an International HIV/HBV Co-infected Cohort on Long-term HAART
    4. Characterization of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and its Association with HIV in an Antiretroviral Therapy(ART)-naïve, Multi-national Cohort from 2 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG)
    5. Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Infected Pregnant Women in Malawi: The BAN Study
    6. Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C Co-infection and Response to Antiretroviral Therapy among HIV-infected Patients in an Urban Setting in Tanzania
    7. Prevalence and Clinical Course of Occult Hepatitis B (HBV) Infection in Serology Negative HIV Patients in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA)
    8. HBV Polymerase and Surface Mutations in a Cohort of HIV/HBV Co-infected Patients Accessing Lamivudine-based HAART in Kumasi, Ghana


  17. TD: Got Milk? Vitamin D Deficiency Prevalence and Associations

    1. Assessment of Vitamin D Levels among HIV-infected Persons in the Study to Understand the Natural History of HIV/AIDS in the Era of Effective Therapy (SUN Study)
    2. Prevalence of Hypovitaminosis D among HIV+ Patients Enrolled in a Large Italian Cohort
    3. High Prevalence of Severe Vitamin D Deficiency in cART Naïve and Successfully Treated Swiss HIV Patients
    4. Vitamin D and HIV-related Complications and HIV Disease Progression in Women in Tanzania
    5. Vitamin D Deficiency and Bacterial Vaginosis among HIV-infected and -uninfected Women in the United States


  18. New Strategies for a Changing Epidemic

    1. Barriers to Barriers
    2. HIV Prevention and Care through Door-to-Door HIV Testing and Counseling: Opportunities and Challenges
    3. Male Circumcision Scale-up
    4. Antiretrovirals for HIV Prevention: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?


  19. Targeting the HIV-1 Envelope Glycoprotein

    1. Targeting the Membrane Proximal External Region of HIV-1 gp41
    2. Binding Requirements for the Entry Inhibitor BMS-806
    3. Engineering Immunity against HIV-1
    4. Conserved Neutralizing Targets on the HIV-1 Envelope Spike


  20. Pathogenesis and Clinical Management of Complications

    1. Pathogenesis and Management of Visceral Fat Accumulation
    2. Hepatic Steatosis, Pathogenesis, and Management
    3. HIV, Inflammation, and Cardiovascular Disease
    4. Growing up with HIV: Consequences of a Lifetime of ART


  21. The US Epidemic—Disparities in HIV Disease, Care, and Outcomes

    1. The US Epidemic—Disparities in HIV Disease, Care, and Outcomes


  22. Pathogenic vs Nonpathogenic Retrovirus Infections

    1. Pathogenic vs Nonpathogenic Retrovirus Infections


  23. HIV Vaccines: The Path Forward

    1. RV 144 Update: Vaccination with ALVAC and AIDSVAX to Prevent HIV-1 Infection in Thai Adults
    2. Vaccine-induced Changes in Breakthrough HIV-1 Sequences from the Step Trial
    3. Factors Associated with Viral Rebound in HIV-Positive Subjects Receiving a Therapeutic HIV-1 gag Vaccine
    4. A Phase I Double-blind Placebo-controlled Randomized Study of a Therapeutic Vaccine Using Autologous DC Loaded with Autologous HIV-1 in Untreated Patients with Asymptomatic Chronic HIV Infection
    5. Optimal Priming of Poxvirus Vector-based HIV Vaccine Regimens Requires 3 DNA Injections: Results of the Randomized Multicentre EV03/ANRS Vac20 Phase I/II Trial
    6. Preclinical Studies on DNA/MVA Vaccines: Co-expressed GM-CSF, a Strong Adjuvant for Prevention of Infection
    7. Expansion in vivo of Naïve and Activated Treg in IL-2-treated HIV Patients
    8. Lentiviral Vector-based Anti-HIV-1 Vaccine Induces Strong T Cell and Antibody Responses in Macaques, with and without DNA Priming
    9. Broad HIV Neutralizing Antibodies Can Be Elicited by the GBV-C glycoprotein E2 and Neutralize HIV via a 2F5-like Mechanism


  24. Antiretroviral-based Prevention: Exposure and Efficacy

    1. Efficacy of Intermittent Prophylaxis with Tenofovir and Emtricitabine against Rectal SHIV Transmission in Macaques and Relationship to Systemic and Mucosal Drug Levels
    2. Protection of Rhesus Macaques from Vaginal Infection by Maraviroc, an Inhibitor of HIV-1 Entry via the CCR5 Co-receptor
    3. Antiretrovirals for Prevention: Maraviroc Exposure in the Semen and Rectal Tissue of Healthy Male Volunteers after Single and Multiple Dosing
    4. Validating Measures of Tenofovir Drug Exposure in a US Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Trial
    5. PRO2000 Vaginal Gel is Ineffective in Preventing HIV Infection: Results of the MDP301 Phase III Microbicide Trial
    6. Association of Expanded HAART Coverage with a Decrease in New HIV Diagnoses, Particularly among Injection Drug Users in British Columbia, Canada


  25. New Resistance Mechanisms and Detection Methods

    1. A Novel Peptide-based HIV-1 Inhibitor Selects for pol Mutations L100I/K102R/K103N in Primary Human Lymphocytes
    2. A New Mechanism Enhancing the Ability of HIV to Escape from Antiretrovirals
    3. Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 Suppressive Therapy with Acyclovir or Valacyclovir Does Not Induce Specific HIV-1 Resistance in HSV-2/HIV-1 Dually-infected Persons
    4. Population-based Sequencing of the V3-loop Is Comparable to the Enhanced Sensitivity Trofile Assay in Predicting Virologic Response to Maraviroc of Treatment-naïve Patients in the MERIT Trial


  26. New Insights into Retroviral Pathogenesis

    1. Plasma Levels of WFDC1/ps20, a Novel Viral Permissivity Factor in CD4 T Lymphocytes, Correlates Directly with CD4 T Cell Count in Chronic HIV-1 Infection
    2. Tryptophan Catabolism by Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase Alters the Balance between Th17 and Regulatory T Cells in Progressive HIV Disease
    3. Sooty Mangabeys CD4+ Central Memory T Cells Are Relatively Resistant to CCR5 Expression and SIV Infection: A Key Mechanism for AIDS Resistance?
    4. Identification of a Novel CCR5 Mutation Common in Sooty Mangabeys Indicates that Entry by SIVsmm Occurs through Alternative Entry Pathways in Addition to CCR5
    5. Differences in HIV Burden throughout the Gut of Patients on Suppressive ART: Implications for HIV Persistence
    6. The Genetic Diversity of HIV-1 in Plasma Persists Despite Suppression with ART
    7. Population Decline in a Chimpanzee Community with a High Prevalence of SIVcpz Infection
    8. HIV-1 Replication and Immune Dynamics Are Impacted by Raltegravir Intensification of HAART-suppressed Patients
    9. Raltegravir Intensification in Antiretroviral-treated Patients Exhibiting a Suboptimal CD4+ T Cell Response


  27. TB Prevention and Treatment and Complications of HIV and ART

    1. Effectiveness of Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Reducing Mortality in Patients on ART
    2. Efficacy of a 6-month vs a 36-month Regimen for Prevention of Tuberculosis in HIV-infected Persons in India: A Randomized Clinical Trial
    3. Randomized, Placebo-controlled Trial of 6 vs 36 Months Isoniazid TB Preventive Therapy for HIV-infected Adults in Botswana
    4. Randomized Trial of a 6-month Punctuated Course of ART in Ugandan HIV+ Adults with Pulmonary TB and CD4 >350
    5. Bone and Limb Fat Outcomes of ACTG A5224s, a Substudy of ACTG A5202: A Prospective, Randomized, Partially Blinded Phase III Trial of ABC/3TC or TDF/FTC with EFV or ATV/r for Initial Treatment of HIV-1 Infection
    6. Chronic Kidney Disease and Exposure to ART in a Large Cohort with Long-term Follow-up: The EuroSIDA Study


  28. Progress and Problems in ART Rollout

    1. Pre-treatment Mortality and Probability of Starting ART in Patients Enrolled in the Free State ARV Program, South Africa: Implications for Treatment Guidelines
    2. Trends in Enrollment Characteristics of Patients at a Large HIV Clinic in Kenya 2003 to 2008: Implications for ART Guidelines
    3. Immune Restoration over 5 Years on ART among Patients Initiating Treatment with Advanced Immune Deficiency in the DART Trial in Uganda and Zimbabwe
    4. Comparison of Immunologic and Virologic Failure Criteria in a Large ART Program in Nigeria


  29. TD: Impact of KIR/HLA on HIV Infection

    1. Next-generation Sequencing for HLA Typing and MHC Sequence Interrogation for Host Genetics of HIV Infection
    2. Effects of Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptor and Human Leukocyte Antigen Genes on Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission
    3. HLA Class II Allele DRB1*1303 Is Associated with Reduced Viral Loads in 2 Independent Cohorts of Different Ethnicity and HIV Clades of Infection
    4. NK Receptor-HLA Ligand Requirements for Increased Polyfunctional Potential in NK Cells from Individuals Carrying KIR3DL1*h/*y+ HLA-B*57
    5. HLA and HIV: Current Perspective


  30. TD: Improving Estimates of HIV-1 Incidence

    1. Improved Precision of Cross-Sectional HIV Incidence Testing Using a Multi-assay Algorithm that Includes BED and an Avidity Assay with Modified Assay Cut-offs
    2. Development of a Bead-based, Multiplex Assay for Estimation of Recent HIV-1 Infection
    3. Antibody Avidity-based Assay for Identifying Recent HIV-1 Infections Based on Genetic Systems TM ½ plus O EIA
    4. Concordance of Recent HIV Infection between 3 STARHS Assays Is Not Dependent on Patient Characteristics
    5. Performance of BED-CEIA and Avidity Index Assays in a Sample of ART-naïve, Female Sex Workers in Kigali, Rwanda


  31. TD: Viral Co-factors and Cellular Restrictions

    1. Identification and Characterization of Key Cellular Factors Required for HIV Infectivity and Trafficking
    2. Activity of Ancestral Restriction Factors against Ancient Retroviruses
    3. Direct Restriction of Virus Release and Incorporation of the Interferon-induced Protein BST-2 into HIV-1 Particles
    4. Contribution of RING Domain to Retrovirus Restriction by TRIM5a Depends on Combination of Host and Virus Species
    5. Association of Potent Anti-HIV-1 APOBEC3 Proteins with 7SL and Viral Genomic RNA
    6. Evidence for an Activation Domain at the Amino-terminus of SIV Vpx


  32. TD: HIV Drug Resistance in Breastfeeding Infants Exposed to ART

    1. Transmission of NVP-resistant HIV-1 to Infants by Breastfeeding Observed after Maternal sdNVP
    2. Comparison of NVP Resistance among HIV-infected Infants Who Received Extended NVP plus ZDV Prophylaxis vs Extended NVP Prophylaxis Alone: The PEPI-Malawi Study
    3. Delayed Clearance of High-frequency NVP-resistant Viremia in the First Year of Life in HIV-infected Infants Who Received Extended NVP for Prevention of Breast-milk Transmission: Implications for Early Therapy
    4. Multi-class Drug Resistance Arises Frequently in HIV-infected Breastfeeding Infants Whose Mothers Initiate HAART Postpartum


  33. TD: Progression of Atherosclerosis: Role of Inflammation and T Cell Activation

    1. Earlier Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Individuals is Associated with Reduced Arterial Stiffness
    2. Inflammation is Associated with Endothelial Dysfunction among Individuals with Treated and Suppressed HIV Infection
    3. T Cell Senescence and T Cell Activation Predict Carotid Atherosclerosis in HIV-infected Women
    4. Rates and Determinants of Progression of Carotid Artery Intima-media Thickness and Coronary Artery Calcium in HIV Infection


  34. Understanding the Variability of Drug Response

    1. The Pharmacokinetics of Body Compartments: Drug Transporters and Penetration
    2. Pharmacogenetics—Upcoming Applications to Patient Care
    3. Clinical Pharmacology in Resource-limited Countries
    4. Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Integrase Inhibitors


  35. Challenges in HIV Prevention

    1. Social and Structural Barriers to HIV Prevention: Emerging Lessons from the US
    2. Gender and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa
    3. Challenges of Alcohol Use for HIV Prevention
    4. The Impacts and Legacy of HIV Exceptionalism


  36. HIV Replication: In and Out of the Cell

    1. New Views of HIV Entry
    2. The Virology and Immunology of HIV Cell-to-Cell Transfer
    3. HIV-1 RNA Trafficking, Dimerization, and Encapsidation
    4. Hexameric Assembly of a Restricting TRIM5a Protein: Implications for Molecular Recognition of Retroviral Capsids


  37. Long-term Complications: Hearts and Bones

    1. Rates of Cardiovascular Disease Following Smoking Cessation in Patients with HIV Infection: Results from the D:A:D Study
    2. Rapid Progression of Atherosclerosis at the Carotid Bifurcation Is Linked to Inflammation in HIV-infected Patients
    3. Progression of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in a Contemporary HIV Cohort
    4. Triglycerides and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction in the D:A:D Study
    5. Higher and Increasing Rates of Fracture among HIV-infected Persons in the HIV Outpatient Study Compared to the General US Population, 1994 to 2008
    6. HIV-infection and Fragility Fracture Risk among Male Veterans
    7. Fracture Rates Are Not Increased in Younger HIV+Women
    8. Uridine Supplementation in the Management of HIV Lipoatrophy: Results of ACTG 5229


  38. Mouse to Man? XMRV and Human Disease

    1. Mouse to Man? XMRV and Human Disease


  39. HCV Entry: Unlocking the Door

    1. Hepatitis C Virus Entry: Unlocking the Door


  40. New Insights into Transmission and Acute Infection

    1. A Finite Course of ART during Early HIV-1 Infection Modestly Delays Need for Subsequent ART Initiation: ACTG A5217, The SETPOINT Study
    2. Profound Depletion of HIV-1 Transcriptionally Active PBMC by Early cART during Primary HIV-1 Infection but Not by Treatment during Chronic Infection: Results of the Zurich Primary HIV Infection Study
    3. ART and Risk of Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission in HIV-1 Serodiscordant African Couples: A Multinational Prospective Study
    4. Sex and Race Influence Clinical Presentations and Outcomes following Primary HIV-1 Infection
    5. HIV-1 Enters in the Seminal Tract by Multiple Mechanisms and in a Cytokine-rich Environment
    6. Neisseria gonorrhoeae Enhances HIV-1 Infection of Primary Resting CD4+ T Cells through TLR2 Activation
    7. Monospecific Expansion of SIVmac251 during Acute Infection May Mask Multiple Transmitted Virus Variants Revealed during the Chronic Phase
    8. Lack of Post-Peak Decline of Viremia and Accelerated Course of SIVmac251 Infection in Rhesus Macaques Undergoing an Antibody-mediated CD4+ T Cell Depletion Prior to Infection


  41. Virus–Host Interaction: HIV and XMRV

    1. Ancient Evolutionary Changes to Tetherin Shaped Vpu and Nef Functions in HIV-1 Adaption to Humans
    2. Compensatory Genetic Changes Acquired by a nef-deleted Serially Passaged SIV Vaccine Strain Confer Resistance to Tetherin
    3. HIV-1 Vpu Transmembrane Domain Mutants: Enhancement of Virion-release Correlates with Down-regulation of BST-2, Is Independent of Ion Channel Activity, and Occurs from a Post-endoplasmic Reticulum Compartment
    4. Use of LEDGF/p75 Fusion Proteins to Retarget Lentiviral Integration Outside of Genes
    5. Direct Cell-to-Cell HIV Transfer Is Insensitive to ART at High Drug Concentrations
    6. Cellular Determinants Required for Infection of XMRV, a Novel Retrovirus Associated with Human Familial Prostate Cancer
    7. Host Regulation of XMRV in Prostate Cancer
    8. Prevalence of Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus in Prostate Cancer
    9. Organ and Cell Lineage Dissemination of XMRV in Rhesus Macaques during Acute and Chronic Infection
    10. XMRV: Examination of Viral Kinetics, Tissue Tropism, and Serological Markers of Infection


  42. Treatment Outcomes in Women and Children

    1. Effect of Hormonal Contraceptive Use on Time to AIDS or Death in Female HIV Seroconverters in Rakai, Uganda
    2. Efficacy of ART with NVP+TDF/FTC vs LPV/r+TDF/FTC among Antiretroviral-naïve Women in Africa: OCTANE Trial 2/ACTG A5208
    3. NNRTI-resistant Variants Detected by Allele-specific PCR Predict Outcome of NVP-containing ART in Women with Prior Exposure to sdNVP: Results from the OCTANE/A5208 Study
    4. Co-factors for HIV Incidence during Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period
    5. Repeat HIV Testing in Labor and Delivery as a Standard of Care Increases ARV Provision for Women Who Seroconvert during Pregnancy
    6. 12-Month Follow-up of the SWEN Randomized Controlled Trials: Differential Impact of Infant Extended-dose NVP by CD4 Count on Prevention of HIV Transmission via Breastfeeding, and Infant Mortality
    7. National Scale-up of Early Infant Diagnostic Testing for HIV in Uganda
    8. Plasma Frequencies of Nevirapine Resistance Influence Virologic Responses to Nevirapine Maintenance Therapy in Single-Dose Exposed HIV-infected Children Initially Treated with Lopinavir HAART
    9. Treatment Outcomes among HIV-infected Infants and Young Children following Modifications to Protease Inhibitor-based Therapy Due to TBTreatment
    10. Interim Results from IMPAACT P1066: Raltegravir (RAL) Oral Chewable Tablet (OCT) Formulation in Children 6 to 11 Years


  43. Hepatitis C: Transmission, Outcomes, and Treatment

    1. The Interleukin 28B Gene and HCV Recovery
    2. Association of IL28B Haplotypes with Chronic HCV Infection in HIV/HCV Co-infected Individuals
    3. Genetic Variation in IL28B and Treatment-induced Clearance of HCV in HCV/HIV Co-infected Patients
    4. Strong Association of a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Located Near the Interleukin-28b Gene with Response to Hepatitis C Therapy in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients
    5. Baseline Liver Disease Is Independently Associated with Risk of Death among 631 HIV/HCV Co-infected Adult with Histologic Staging
    6. Sustained Virological Response to Interferon plus Ribavirin Reduces HIV Progression and Non-liver-related Mortality in Patients Co-infected with HIV and HCV
    7. Survival of HCV in Syringes: Implication for HCV Transmission among Injection Drug Users
    8. HCV Transmission and Diversification in Infected Subjects Analyzed by Deep Sequencing
    9. Ultra-deep Sequencing Analysis Demonstrates Pre-existence of HBV Resistance Substitutions at Baseline in Patients Who Subsequently Develop Clinical Resistance


  44. TD: Antiretroviral Agent Penetration into Genital Secretions

    1. Raltegravir Concentrations in the Cervicovaginal Compartment Exceed the Median Inhibitory Concentration in HIV-1-infected Women Treated with a Raltegravir-containing Regimen: DIVA 01 Study
    2. Steady-state Raltegravir Penetration in Seminal Plasma of Healthy Volunteers
    3. Darunavir Concentrations in Seminal Plasma in Patients Receiving Darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) Monotherapy: A MONOI-ANRS 136 Substudy
    4. Darunavir (DRV) Concentrations Exceed the Protein-corrected (PC) EC50 for Wild Type HIV in the Semen of HIV-1 Positive Infected Men
    5. Maraviroc Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) and Seminal Plasma from HIV-Infected Patients


  45. TD: NK Cells and ADCC: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity

    1. Evidence of HIV Viral Escape from NK Cell-mediated ADCC
    2. Purification and Evaluation of HIV-specific ADCC Antibodies
    3. Exclusion of KIR+ NK Cells from Lymph Nodes during HIV-1 Infection May Represent a Novel Mechanism by which the Virus Escapes Innate Immune Control
    4. Differential Homing Potential of NK Cell Subsets to Lymphoid and Peripheral Tissues during HIV Infection
    5. Natural Killer Receptor Genotypes in HIV-infected Patients Lacking CD4 Recovery on Long-term ART


  46. TD: Swine Flu Meets HIV

    1. New Swine Origin Influenza A (H1N1)v in HIV-Infected Patients During the 2009 Outbreak in Mexico City
    2. LB 2009 H1N1 Virus Infection in HIV+ Adults
    3. LB Clinical Features of Subjects Infected with HIV and H1N1 Influenza Virus
    4. LB Immunogenicity of One Dose of Influenza A H1N1v 2009 Vaccine Formulated with and without AS03A-Adjuvant in HIV+ Adults: Preliminary Report of the ANRS 151 Randomized HIFLUVAC Trial
    5. LB Low Rate of Immunoresponse to the Novel Split Virion, Inactivated, Adjuvanted Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccine in HIV-1-infected Patients
    6. LB Poor Immunogenicity of the H1N1 2009 Vaccine in Well Controlled HIV-infected Individuals: Interim Results of an Immunogenicity Trial
    7. LB Elevated 2009 H1N1 Antibody Titers in HIV-infected and Uninfected Women in the US: A Sero-study, March 1 to September 30, 2009
    8. LB Safety of an Inactivated H1N1 2009 H1N1 Vaccine in HIV-1-infected Pregnant Women, IMPAACT P1086
    9. LB 2009 H1N1 Immunization in HIV-1 Perinatally Infected Children and Youth


  47. TD: Impact of Treatment Intensification on HIV Reservoirs and Immune Activation

    1. Effect of Raltegravir-containing Intensification on HIV Burden and T Cell Activation in the Gut of HIV+ Adults on Suppressive ART
    2. Raltegravir Intensification Does Not Reduce Persistent HIV-1 Viremia in Treatment-experienced Patients
    3. No Evolution of HIV-1 Total DNA and 2-LTR Circles after 48 Weeks of Raltegravir-containing Therapy in Patients with Controlled Viremia: A Sub-study of the Randomized EASIER-ANRS 138 Trial
    4. Intensification of HAART through the Addition of Enfuvirtide in Naive HIV-infected Patients with Severe Immunosuppression Does Not Improve Immunological Response: Results of a Prospective Randomized Multicenter Trial (APOLLO - ANRS 130)
    5. The Antiviral and Immunological Effects of Intensification of Suppressive ART with Maraviroc, a CCR5 Antagonist
    6. Effect of the Intensification with a CCR5 Antagonist on the Decay of the HIV-1 Latent Reservoir and Residual Viremia
    7. Maraviroc Intensification for Suboptimal CD4+ Cell Response Despite Sustained Virologic Suppression: ACTG 5256


  48. TD: Renal Disease: Mechanisms and Outcomes

    1. Factors Associated With Decreased Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) in HIV-infected Adults Enrolled in the MTCT-Plus Initiative in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
    2. Low CD4 Cell Count and Impaired Renal Function Are Independent Risk Factors for ARF in HIV Infected Patients
    3. HAART is Associated with Improved Kidney Function in Patients with Impaired Kidney Function at Baseline but Was Associated with Slight Worsening of Kidney Function in Patients with Normal Baseline Kidney Function
    4. Intrarenal Inflammation Contributes to HIV-Related Proteinuria
    5. The Value of Urine Protein/Creatinine and Albumin/Creatinine Ratios in Assessing Renal Disease in HIV Infection


  49. Neuropathogenesis: Clinical Correlates and Impact of ART

    1. HIV Treatment Modulates Global Resting Cerebral Blood Flow in HIV+ Subjects
    2. Correlates of CSF Viral Loads in 1221 Volunteers of the CHARTER Cohort
    3. Correlates of Epidermal Nerve Fiber Density in HIV-infected Individuals without Neuropathy prior to Initiation of Potent ART
    4. An SIV Macaque Model of HIV-induced Peripheral Neuropathy
    5. HIV Subtype A Is Associated with Impaired Neuropsychological Performance Compared to Subtype D in ART-naïve Ugandan Children
    6. Increased Spontaneous Shedding of Soluble gp120 by HIV in Brain from Patients with Dementia
    7. Treponema pallidum Strain Type Is Associated with Neurosyphilis


  50. New Insights into Mechanisms of T Cell Protection

    1. NK Cell Function
    2. Vaccine-induced Cellular Responses against HIV
    3. New Insights into Mechanisms of T Cell Protection against SIV
  1. The Future of HIV Therapeutic Research—The Treatment Agenda

    1. HIV Cure: Is it Realistic?
    2. Limitations of Current Therapies in Developed Countries
    3. Beyond First-line Therapy in Resource-limited Settings
    4. Future Directions in HIV/TB Research


  2. Cellular Restrictions: APOBEC

    1. Intrinsic Restriction Activity by APOBEC1 against the Mobility of Autonomous Retrotransposons
    2. HIV-1 Virion Misincorporation as an Alternative Escape Strategy from APOBEC3H Restriction
    3. A Single Amino Acid Difference in Human APOBEC3H Variants Determines HIV-1 Vif Sensitivity
    4. Structure-guided Mutagenesis of APOBEC3G Reveals Critical Lysine Residues for HIV-1 Vif-mediated Ubiquitination/Degradation
    5. Long-term Restriction of HIV-1 by Human APOBEC3F Exerts Unique Selective Pressure for the Restoration of Vif Function
    6. Impact of Cell Types on the APOBEC3G-Induced G-to-A Hypermutation Rate in HIV-1 DNA Revealed by Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing
    7. HIV-1 Inter-subtype Vif Variability Affects APOBEC-3G-mediated Host Restriction
    8. Impact of Structural Genomic Variation in the APOBEC3 Locus on Susceptibility to HIV Infection


  3. Cellular Restrictions: TRIM5 and Novel Factors

    1. Generation of Human TRIM5alpha Mutants with Anti-HIV-1 Activity
    2. Viral and Host Determinants for the Restriction of HIV-2/SIVmac by Rhesus Monkey TRIM5a
    3. A Role for Sumoylation in TRIM5 Protein-mediated Restriction?
    4. Molecular Characterization of CPSF6-358 Domains Required for Antiviral Function
    5. Adenosine Deaminase 1 Is a Novel Anti HIV-1 Cellular Factor


  4. Cellular Restrictions: Tetherin and Vpu

    1. HIV-1 Vpu Internalizes Cell-surface BST-2/Tetherin and Leads It to Lysosomes
    2. BCA2/Rabring7 Promotes Tetherin-dependent HIV-1 Restriction
    3. No Species-specific Co-factors for HIV-1 Tethering Function of Human BST-2/Tetherin
    4. No Evidence for a Restriction of Retrovirus Release by Calcium-Modulating Cyclophilin Ligand
    5. HIV-1’s Vpu and TASK Proteins Inhibit HIV-1 Transcription


  5. Viral Co-factors and Cellular Restrictions

    1. Identification and Characterization of Key Cellular Factors Required for HIV Infectivity and Trafficking
    2. Activity of Ancestral Restriction Factors against Ancient Retroviruses
    3. Direct Restriction of Virus Release and Incorporation of the Interferon-induced Protein BST-2 into HIV-1 Particles
    4. Contribution of RING Domain to Retrovirus Restriction by TRIM5a Depends on Combination of Host and Virus Species
    5. Association of Potent Anti-HIV-1 APOBEC3 Proteins with 7SL and Viral Genomic RNA
    6. Evidence for an Activation Domain at the Amino-terminus of SIV Vpx


  6. New Insights into Virus Replication: Co-factors and Virus Entry

    1. Constraints on HIV-1 Diversity from Protein Structure
    2. Structure Determination of Unliganded, Intact HIV-1 gp41 Membrane-Proximal External Region
    3. Production of Low Titer of Infective HIV-1 Pseudoparticles with a Deglycosylated GP140 Construct Lacking Transmembrane Domain
    4. Cell-to-Cell Spread of HIV Enhances Multiplicity of Infection
    5. Cell Superinfection Accelerates HIV-1 Replication and Bypasses Integration through Viral Complementation
    6. Multidimensional Quantitative Analysis of HIV-1 Entry Efficiency
    7. HIV-1 Adapts to the Loss of a Vital RNA Dimerization Element: Implication to RNA Interference-Based Antiviral


  7. Virus–Host Cell Interaction: Studies on Macrophages

    1. 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol Triggers Autophagy in Human Macrophages that Inhibits Productive HIV-1 Infection
    2. Contribution of beta-Integrins to HIV-1 Infection in Macrophages
    3. HIV-1 ssRNA40 Induces Interferon-alpha Expression Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells through Activating Autophagy
    4. HIV Down-regulates the Transcription of Interferon-stimulated Genes in Macrophages
    5. Variation in V1V2 and on the Flanks of the CD4 Binding Loop Affect HIV-1 R5 Envelope Infectivity and Macrophage Tropism
    6. Identification and Characterization of HIV-1 Small Noncoding RNA in Primary Macrophages and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
    7. Discovery of Common Genetic Variants Associated with in vitro HIV-1 Replication in Monocyte-derived Macrophages


  8. Therapeutic Strategies for Nef

    1. Llama Antibody Fragment for Inhibition of the HIV-1 Nef Protein
    2. Chemical Inhibition of HIV-1 Nef-mediated MHC-I Down-regulation by Targeting Multi-Kinase Complex Assembly


  9. Virus–Host Cell Interaction: Impact of Virus on Host Cell Processes

    1. HIV-1, Host Interaction Patterns: Interpreting a Complex Network
    2. Tat Association with the PP2A and PTEN Promoters Is the Key Event in the Transcriptional Activation of FOXO3a-dependent Genes Related to Apoptotic Pathways in HIV-infected CD4+ T Cells
    3. HIV-1 Transactivator Protein Regulates IFNg-Receptor b/JAK2-mediated IFN-g Signaling
    4. CD44 Capping and c-Src Signaling Enhance HIV-1 Infection in T Cells
    5. Post-entry Events of Efficient R5 vs Inefficient X4 HIV-1 Replication in Primary CD4+ T lymphocytes, a Transcriptome Analysis
    6. HMGB1 and Bacterial Components Synergistically Induce HIV-1 Replication in vitro
    7. Mutational Analysis of the HIV Tat Protein and Its Ability to Down-regulate CD127 on CD8 T Cells
    8. Expression and Regulation of CXCL12 by the Protein Tax of HTLV-1
    9. Nef Produced from Unintegrated HIV-1 DNA Can Down-regulate CXCR4 and CCR5
    10. An Immunosuppressive Role for HIV Nef Protein via Regulation of PD-L1/2 Expression on Antigen Presenting Cells
    11. Interactions between the Cellular RNAi Pathway and HIV-1 Replication


  10. New Insights into Virus Replication: Integration, Assembly, and Viral Latency

    1. Novel Host Factors in HIV Integration Site Targeting
    2. Correlation Analysis of LEDGF/p75-Bound Sequences and HIV Integration Sites
    3. Influence of Host Gene Transcriptional Level and Orientation on HIV-1 Latency in Primary Cells
    4. Distinct H3K9 and H3K27 Modification Patterns in HIV-1 Latent Cells
    5. Assessment of Epigenetic Modifications as a Direct Consequence of HIV Infection in Primary CD4+ T cells
    6. Deoxynucleoside Treatment Remedies HIV-1 LTR Attrition in Quiescent CD4 Tcells
    7. Establishment of Latency in Naïve and Central Memory T Cells in a Primary CD4 Cell Model
    8. Myeloid DC Induce HIV-1 Latency in Resting CD4+ T Cells in vitro
    9. Identification of Natural Compounds that Reactivate Expression of Latent HIV-1
    10. The Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor ITF2357 Decreases Surface CXCR4 and CCR5 Expression on CD4+ T Cells and Monocytes and Is Superior to Valproic Acid for Latent HIV-1 Expression in vitro
    11. Expression and Characterization of Recombinant Human ESCRT-I Complex


  11. Viral Decay Dynamics with ART

    1. Stage-dependent Inhibition of HIV-1 in vitro and Implications for Raltegravir
    2. Longer Phase I Viral Decay in Treatment-naïve Patients Receiving Raltegravir-based ART: Preliminary Results from ACTG 5248
    3. Monotherapy with Integrase, Reverse Transcriptase, and CCR5 Inhibitors Lead to Progressively Longer Delays before HIV RNA Reduction in vivo


  12. HIV Evolution in vivo

    1. Combined ART and Immune System Pressure Leads to in vivo HIV-1 Recombination with Ancestral Viral Genomes
    2. Biological Characterization of HIV-1 Isolated from Purified Human Monocytes
    3. Use of a High-resolution Melting Assay to Evaluate HIV Gag Region Diversity in HIV-infected Adults with Different Stages of HIV Infection
    4. Sequencing and Functional Analysis of Rev and RRE in Longitudinal Patient Samples
    5. Quantitative Deep Sequencing Reveals Hidden Lineages and Shifts of Viral Population in Archived and Replicating HIV-1 Genomes


  13. Evolution of HIV Co-receptor Usage

    1. CD4+ T Cell Turnover Is Related to Chemokine Receptor Expression and HIV Viral Co-receptor Tropism
    2. Sensitivity to CCR5 and Fusion Inhibitors Decreases over the Course of HIV-1 Infection
    3. Adaptation to Use Low Levels of the CD4 Receptor is an Early Event in the Process of Coreceptor Switching in R5 SHIV-infected Rapid Progressors
    4. Evolution of Env Protein and Co-receptor Usage during Pregnancy in Women Infected with B vs Non-B HIV-1 Subtypes
    5. X4 Emergence in a Seropositive R5 SHIVSF162P3N-infected Macaque and in a Macaque Infected with Its Molecular Clone
    6. Ultra-deep Pyrosequencing Captured Low Frequency CXCR4 Virus Populations Co-archived with CCR5 Virus in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes from HIV-infected Therapy-naïve Children
    7. Detection of Predicted CXCR4-using HIV-1 Variants in Longitudinally Obtained Paired Plasma and Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Samples Using 454-Sequencing
    8. Prediction of X4-tropic HIV from Proviral Envelope Sequence in Patients with Suppressed Viral Load on ART
    9. Prevalence of CXCR4-using Subtype C HIV-1 Infection among Treatment-naive Women: Results from the Mashi Study


  14. Impact of Treatment Intensification on HIV Reservoirs and Immune Activation

    1. Effect of Raltegravir-containing Intensification on HIV Burden and T Cell Activation in the Gut of HIV+ Adults on Suppressive ART
    2. Raltegravir Intensification Does Not Reduce Persistent HIV-1 Viremia in Treatment-experienced Patients
    3. No Evolution of HIV-1 Total DNA and 2-LTR Circles after 48 Weeks of Raltegravir-containing Therapy in Patients with Controlled Viremia: A Sub-study of the Randomized EASIER-ANRS 138 Trial
    4. Intensification of HAART through the Addition of Enfuvirtide in Naive HIV-infected Patients with Severe Immunosuppression Does Not Improve Immunological Response: Results of a Prospective Randomized Multicenter Trial (APOLLO - ANRS 130)
    5. The Antiviral and Immunological Effects of Intensification of Suppressive ART with Maraviroc, a CCR5 Antagonist
    6. Effect of the Intensification with a CCR5 Antagonist on the Decay of the HIV-1 Latent Reservoir and Residual Viremia
    7. Maraviroc Intensification for Suboptimal CD4+ Cell Response Despite Sustained Virologic Suppression: ACTG 5256


  15. HIV Reservoirs

    1. Quantification of Persistent Viremia in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma: Initial Experience in a Raltegravir Intensification Study
    2. Naïve CD4+ Cells Can Contribute to Viral Reservoirs in Patients with HIV
    3. Longitudinal Study of HIV Variant Compartmentalization in Patients Initiating HAART during Primary Infection
    4. Analysis of HIV DNA Molecules in Single Infected Cells from Recently and Chronically Infected Patients


  16. HIV–Cell Interaction in vivo

    1. HIV Infection in Rhesus Macaques Significantly Reduces the Proliferation of Tonsillar CD21+CD27+ Memory B Cells
    2. Regulation of SIVagm-induced Production of IFN-alpha and Interferon Stimulated Genes in African Green Monkey Cells
    3. Productive Infection in Macaques with a Clade B Dual RT-Env SHIV
    4. Lymph Node Follicular Interferon-alpha Is Related to Reduced Virus-producing Cells, but Does Not Explain Sex Differences in HIV-1 Infection
    5. Sex Differences in Innate Immunity during HIV Infection: Study of Dendritic Cells and IFN-a Response
    6. HLA-DR+CD38+ Lymphocytes Are Preferential Targets of HIV-1 both in vitro and in vivo


  17. Determinants of Slow Progression of HIV Disease

    1. Reduced Immune Activation in Course of HTLV-2 Infection Exerts a Protective Role on HIV-1 Replication
    2. Gut-homing Potential of HIV-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells in HIV-infected Subjects with Slow Disease Progression
    3. Sustained CD4 Counts and Preserved Functional CD8 T Cell Responses are Key Determinants of Natural Control of HIV-1 Infection
    4. Viral Evolution in HIV-1 Infection Controllers
    5. Determining the Role of APOBEC3 in the Interferon-a Suppression of HIV-1 in vivo
    6. Low Replicative Capacity of HIV-1 Envelopes Derived from the Viruses Present in a Super-infected Elite Suppressor Patient
    7. Disease Progression after Intrasubtype Superinfection in an HLA-B57+ Asymptomatic LTNP Initially Infected with a nef-defective HIV-1 Strain


  18. Biomarkers of HIV Disease and Death

    1. Plasma Levels of Soluble CD14 Predict Mortality in HIV Infection
    2. Coagulation and Inflammation Biomarkers Correlate with Disease Progression in SIV Infections
    3. C-reactive Protein as an Indicator of Global Immune Activation and Disease Progression in HIV-1-infected Ugandan Individuals
    4. Impact of CD8+ T Cell Activation on CD4+ T Cell Recovery and Mortality in HIV-infected Ugandans Initiating ART
    5. HIV-1 Residual Viremia Correlates with Persistent T Cell Activation in Poor Immunological Responders to Combination ART
    6. Concomitant CD38 Mean Fluorescence Intensity on CD8+ T Cells Predicts Rise or Decline of HIV Viral Load in Response to Treatment Interruption or ART Initiation in Chronically HIV-1-infected Individuals
    7. Plasma Levels of LPS and HMGB1 Are Elevated in HIV-1 and Reduced after 2 Years Effective ART
    8. An Imbalance between Antifibrotic and Profibrotic Factors Were Associated with Lymphoid Tissue Fibrosis in HIV Infection
    9. Reversing B Cell Exhaustion Associated with Chronic HIV Infection
    10. Expression of a4B7 Integrin on Peripheral Blood T Lymphocytes Correlates with Intestinal CD4 T Cells in HIV Infection


  19. CD4 T Cell Functions and Immune Recovery

    1. Role of Baseline CD4 and Viral Load in CD4 Increase in Patients Initiating HAART with CD4< 200 Cells/muL
    2. Poor CD4 T Cell Recovery in Virologically Suppressed HIV-infected Patients Is Determined by High CD4 T Cell Destruction, and Predicted by Nadir CD4 T Cell Count. Clinical Implications
    3. Effect of Ongoing Viral Load Changes on the Rate of CD4 Count Depletion during Untreated HIV Infection
    4. T Cell Senescence and Proliferation Defects Persist in Treated HIV-infected Individuals Maintaining Viral Suppression and Are Associated with Poor CD4+ T Cell Recovery
    5. Increased Thymic Production of Regulatory T Cells in HIV-infected Patients: Contribution of the Thymus to the Maintenance of Treg Levels
    6. Preferential Depletion of Peripheral Memory CD4+CD73+ T Cells by HIV-1 Infection
    7. Gag-specific CD39+OX40+CD25+ and CD39-OX40+CD25+ Regulatory and Effector T Cell Frequencies Are Inversely Correlated in HIV-infected Patients
    8. Dysfunction of HIV-specific CD4+ T Cells Is Associated with Elevated Concurrent Expression of Multiple Inhibitory Receptors
    9. HIV Controller CD4+ T Cells Respond to Minimal Amounts of Gag Antigen Due to High TCR Avidity


  20. What Monkey Models Can Teach Us about HIV Infection

    1. CCR5 Blockade Alters the in vivo Trafficking of CCR5+ and CD25+ T Cells in Healthy, SIV-uninfected Rhesus Macaques
    2. SIVmac239-mediated Down-modulation of Integrin alpha4beta7 on Infected Cells
    3. Systems Biology Analysis of CD8 Lymphocyte Depletion in SIV-infected Rhesus Macaques
    4. Chronic SIV Infection Perturbs the Functional and Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Macaque NK Cell Subsets
    5. Natural Killer T Cells in Sooty Mangabeys Are Phenotypically Distinct from Asian Macaques and Are Maintained following SIV Infection
    6. Nonpathogenic SIV Infection of Sooty Mangabeys Induces an LPS-specific Reduction in Monocyte Inflammatory Cytokine Production


  21. NK Cells and ADCC: Linking Innate and Adaptive Immunity

    1. Evidence of HIV Viral Escape from NK Cell-mediated ADCC
    2. Purification and Evaluation of HIV-specific ADCC Antibodies
    3. Exclusion of KIR+ NK Cells from Lymph Nodes during HIV-1 Infection May Represent a Novel Mechanism by which the Virus Escapes Innate Immune Control
    4. Differential Homing Potential of NK Cell Subsets to Lymphoid and Peripheral Tissues during HIV Infection
    5. Natural Killer Receptor Genotypes in HIV-infected Patients Lacking CD4 Recovery on Long-term ART


  22. New Markers of Immune Dysfunction and Recovery

    1. Role of Microbial Translocation and Immune Hyperactivation in Disease Progression of HIV+ Patients with Preserved CD4 Count in the Absence of ART
    2. Role of the Stromal Cell-derived Factor-1-1 Allelic Variant SDF-1 3’A in HIV-1 Disease Progression
    3. Higher Levels of D-dimer, C-reactive Protein, Hyaluronic Acid, and IL-6 before Initiation of ART Are Associated with AIDS, IRIS, or Death among ART-naive Patients with a Good Virologic Response to Initial ART
    4. Elevated Serum IL-7 Levels, Expansion of Memory CD4+ T Cells, Augmented T Cell Activation and Inflammation in Patients Developing IRIS after ART Initiation
    5. HIV Regulates IL-23 and IL-27 Production in Monocytic Cells


  23. CTL Epitopes and Immune Control

    1. TCR Repertoire Diversity in Virus-specific CD8 T Cells
    2. CTL Responses to HIV Gag p24 Can Be Detected in HIV Non-controllers but Are of Low Functional Avidity, Lack Cross-reactivity Potential, and Show Slow in vitro Response Rates to Antigen Stimulus
    3. Identification of CTL Selection Pressures Associated with HIV-1 Fitness Defects Using a Recombinant Virus Screening Approach
    4. Examination of the Role of Epitope Presentation Kinetics in Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte-mediated Antiviral Activity
    5. Highly Immunodominant HIV-specific T Cell Responses against Functional Constraint Region Are Not Protective Due to Lack of Polyfunctionality
    6. Rules Defining the Production of HIV Antigenic Peptides


  24. Novel Insights into HLA Alleles and CD8 T Cell Control

    1. Loss of HIV-1-derived CTL Epitopes Restricted by Protective HLA-B Alleles during the HIV-1 Epidemic
    2. HIV-specific CD8+ T Cells Have an Efficient Profile in HLA-B57+ Subjects during Primary HIV Infection
    3. Novel HLA-B*5703-associated Viral Gag Polymorphism
    4. Evolving Influences of Favorable HLA Alleles on Viral Load in Untreated Zambians with HIV-1C Infection
    5. The Expansion Ability but Not the Quality of HIV-specific CD8+ T Cells Is Associated with Protective HLA Class I Alleles in LTNP
    6. Regulation of HIV-specific CD8<+/> T Cells by Treg Depends on Their HLA Allele Restrictions
    7. Detailed Characterization of HIV-1 Evolution under Selective Pressure Mirrors Progression in HLA-B57+ Subjects


  25. New Factors Associated with CD8 T Cell Function

    1. Proliferation Capacity and Cytotoxic Activity Are Mediated by Functionally and Phenotypically Distinct Virus-specific CD8 T Cells Defined by IL-7Ra (CD127) and Perforin Expression
    2. High Affinity HIV-1-specific CTL Become Exhausted in Early HIV-1 Infection
    3. DNA Damage and p16-mediated Growth Arrest in HIV-1-specific CD8+ T Cells
    4. HIV-1-specific CD4+ T Helper Signals Are Critical for the Maintenance of CD8+ T Cell Function
    5. Vaccine-induced Protection Is Associated with Little to No Perforin Expression within SIV-specific CD8 T Cells
    6. Prothymosin alpha Accounts for Soluble CD8+ T Cell HIV-1 Transcriptional Inhibition via Toll-like Receptor 4 Type I IFN Induction


  26. Exposed Uninfected Individuals: What's New

    1. HIV-1 Specific Cellular Immune Responses in a Population of Persons at Risk for HIV
    2. Antigen-stimulated Th17 Production and Th17 Gene SNP in HIV-exposed Uninfected Individuals


  27. New Discoveries on Neutralizing Antibodies

    1. Autologous Neutralizing Antibodies that Select Viral Escape Variants Emerge Late after SIV Infection of Rhesus Monkeys
    2. Sensitivity to 2G12 Can Be Modulated by Changes within and Proximal to the CD4 Binding Site
    3. Identification of Sera with Broad and Potent Cross-Neutralizing Activity against HIV-1 in a Group of Patients with Undetectable Viral Loads
    4. Identification of HIV Neutralizing Antibodies and Their Epitopes from LTNP/EC Patients by Phage


  28. New Information on Dendritic Cells and HIV

    1. Blood Myeloid Dendritic Cells from HIV-1-infected Individuals Display a Pro-apoptotic Profile that Increases With Disease Progression
    2. Accelerated Immuno-senescence of Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells in HIV-infected Individuals
    3. Description of DCIR Signalosome Induced after HIV-1 Interaction
    4. Leukocyte Immunoglobulin-like Receptors Maintain Unique Functional Properties of Myeloid DC in HIV-1 Controllers
    5. Soluble HLA-G in HIV-1 Progressors Leads to DC Dysfunction via Binding to ILT-4
    6. PAMP Modulate Maturation of Dendritic Cells and Modify Their Ability to Transfer HIV to Resting CD4+ T Lymphocytes
    7. NK-DC Cross-talk Promotes HIV Persistence in DC: Implication of HMGB1


  29. Role of the Gut Mucosa in HIV Immunopathogenesis

    1. HIV Pathogenesis Simulates Immunosenescence and Gut Mucosal Aging
    2. Chronic HIV Leads to Impairment of DC Function and Signaling Pathways in the Gut Mucosa
    3. Differential Viral Escape Kinetics between Plasma and Rectal Mucosa after Acute SIV Infection in Rhesus Macaques
    4. CD4 T Cell Populations, Including Th17 and Cycling Subsets, Are Intact in the Gut Mucosa of HIV-1-infected LTNP
    5. Identification of IgA Phage Mimotopes Recognized by LTNP and HIV-infected Patients Plasma
    6. The Effect of HIV-1 and HSV-2 Infection on Dendritic and Lymphocytic Infiltration in Adult Foreskin Tissue
    7. Immunodominant HIV-specific CD8+ T Cell Responses Are Common to Blood and Gastrointestinal Mucosa, and Gag-specific Responses Dominate in the Rectal Mucosa of HIV Controllers
    8. Mucosal Damage in HIV Infection: Cause or Effect of Higher Activation of Central Memory CD8+ T Cells in Patients Controlling HIV Replication Spontaneously?


  30. Modulating CD8 T Cells to Control Virus Replication

    1. Control of Immune Activation prior to SIV Challenge Is Tightly Linked to the Protective CD8+ T Cell Immunity Induced by a Live, Attenuated AIDS Vaccine
    2. Cyclooxygenase Type 2 Inhibitor Reduces Progression Markers CD38 and PD-1 and Selectively Enhances Responses to a T Cell-dependent Vaccine in Chronic HIV Infection
    3. Valganciclovir Reduces CD8+ T Cell Activation among HIV-infected Patients with Suboptimal CD4+ T Cell Recovery during ART
    4. Modulation of Vaccine Responses by RANTES Significantly Lowers Viral Replication following SIVmac251 Challenge
    5. IL-28B Adjuvant Increases Granzyme B Content and CD107a Expression in HIV-specific CD8+ T Cells after DNA Vaccination
    6. Immune Modulation by 41BB Enhances Protection in Non-human Primates following SIVmac251 Challenge
    7. MVA-SIV Boosting of AdHu5-SIV Immunized Rhesus Macaques Induces Higher Levels of SIV-specific CD8+ T Cells but Results in Increased Virus Replication after SIVmac239 Challenge
    8. Increased HIV-specific Immunity in HIV-infected Individuals Vaccinated with a DNA Prime, rAd5 Boost Regimen


  31. Novel Approaches to Modulate CD4 Cell Infection and Survival

    1. Dynamics of IL-21 Production in the Course of HIV-1 Infection: Consequences for the Survival of CD4+ T Cells
    2. Zinc Finger Nuclease Knockout of CCR5 in Stem Cells Controls HIV-1 in vivo
    3. Prolonged Control of Viremia After Transfer of Autologous CD4 T Cells Genetically Modified with a Lentiviral Vector Expressing Long Antisense to HIV env
    4. Quantification in vivo of the Effect of IL-7 on Proliferation, Survival, and Production of CD4+T Cells: Mathematical Analysis of One Phase I Study in HIV-1-infected Patients


  32. Neutralizing Antibodies: Induction and Impact

    1. Targeting the Hydrophobic Domain of HIV for Inactivation and Vaccine Development
    2. Oligomeric Env gp140 from HIV-1 Pre-seroconversion Strains and Brain as Vaccine Immunogens for Broad Neutralizing Antibody
    3. Recombinant Alphavirus Replicon Particles as a Platform to Evaluate Immunogenicity of Early Transmitted Clade C Virus Envelopes from Primary HIV-1 Infection
    4. Eliciting Broadly Reactive Neutralizing Antibodies Against HIV-1 gp41 Membrane-Proximal External Region
    5. Lower Viral Loads in Daily or Intermittent PrEP Breakthroughs are not Associated with Higher Neutralizing Antibody Titers in Macaques


  33. New Approaches to Mucosal Vaccination

    1. Efficacy of ALVAC-HIV and SF2 gp120 Vaccination against SHIV Rectal Challenge in Macaques
    2. Intranasal SIV DNA/rMVA Vaccination in Rhesus Macaques Provides Preservation of Central Memory alpha4b7high+/CD4+ T Cells and Reduces Long-term Expression of the Immunoactivation Marker CD38
    3. SIV DNA/rMVA Nasal Vaccination in Female Macaques Provides Better Control of Viremia and Disease Progression than in Male Macaques
    4. Mucosae-associated Epithelial Chemokine (CCL28) Modulates Mucosal Immunity in BALB/c Mice Immunized with HIV-1 Virus-like Particles


  34. New Insights from Neuroimaging

    1. Abnormalities in High-field Brain MRI in Primary HIV Infection
    2. The Neuradapt Study: Clinical, Radiological, and Immunovirological Findings in Patients with HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders
    3. Impact of ApoE and Cerebrovascular Risk Factors on Brain Structure and Cognition in HIV in the HAART Era
    4. HCV/HIV Co-infection Affects Neurocognitive Measures, but Does Not Affect Neuroimaging Measures
    5. 2 Patterns of Cerebral Metabolite Abnormalities Are Detected on Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in HIV+ Subjects Electively Commencing ART


  35. Mechanisms of Neuropathogenesis

    1. NNTC Gene Array Reveals Brain Adaptations and 2 Different Kinds of HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder
    2. Dysregulated Glutaminase in HIV-1-infected Microglia mediates Neurotoxicity through the NMDA Receptor
    3. NMDA Receptor Modulation by the Neuropeptide Apelin: Implications for HIV-associated Excitotoxic Injury
    4. Induction of the Unfolded Protein Response Reduces Neurotoxin Production and Attenuates HIV Replication in Macrophages
    5. Down-regulation in vitro of Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 in Rat Astrocytes by CCR5 Antagonist Maraviroc: Potential Therapeutical Implication for HIV-associated Neurologic Disease
    6. HIV-associated Dementia: Pathomechanisms in Different Stages of the Infection
    7. HCV Core Protein Induces Neuroinflammation and Potentiates HIV Vpr Neurotoxicity



  36. Neuropathy and Locomotor Disorder

    1. A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Study of NGX-4010, a High-concentration Capsaicin Patch, for the Treatment of Painful HIV-associated Distal Sensory Polyneuropathy
    2. Mitochondrial Dysfunction in HIV and SIV-associated Sensory Neuropathy
    3. High Prevalence of Locomotor Disorder in HIV-infected Patients, ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort, 2007 to 2009


  37. HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder Predictors and Co-morbidities in the ART Era

    1. APOE e4 and MBL2 O/O Genotypes Are Associated with Neurocognitive Impairment in HIV-infected Former Plasma Donors from Anhui Province, China
    2. CVD and CVD Risk Factors Are Associated with Lower Baseline Neurocognitive Performance in the SMART Neurology Substudy
    3. Predicting HIV-related Neurocognitive Dysfunction: The Relevance of Clinical Factors
    4. Prevalence and Correlates of Minor Neurocognitive Disorders in Asymptomatic HIV-infected Outpatients
    5. HAART-experienced Subjects with HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders Have Longitudinally Persistent Elevated HIV DNA Levels in CD14,+CD16+ Monocytes
    6. Neurologic Disease Burden in Treated HIV/AIDS Predicts Survival
    7. Impact of Psychiatric Comorbidities on Clinical Outcomes in HIV-infected Veterans
    8. Neurocognitive Impairment and HIV Infection in Nigeria: Functional and Virologic Correlates
    9. Utility of Diagnostic Tools for HIV-associated Cognitive Impairment and Peripheral Neuropathy in Western Kenya: Pilot Testing


  38. Infection and Immune Activation of CNS Compartments

    1. HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorder in Acute and Early HIV Infection
    2. Neurocognitive Performance during Primary HIV-1 Infection
    3. Compartmentalization of HIV-1 Macrophage-tropism in Brain Tissue of Patients with HIV Associated Dementia
    4. Effect of Minocycline on CSF Infection and Intrathecal Immunoactivation in Untreated HIV-1 Infection: A Pilot Study
    5. Does cART with Greater CNS Penetration Prevent the Development of CNS Opportunistic Diseases?
    6. CSF Compartmentalization of HBV in Chronic HIV-1 Co-infected Patients


  39. NeuroAIDS Treatment Issues and Controversies

    1. Higher CD4 Nadir Is Associated with Reduced Rates of HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders in the CHARTER Study: Potential Implications for Early Treatment Initiation
    2. Correlates of Time-to-Loss-of-Viral-Response in CSF and Plasma in the CHARTER Cohort
    3. No Decrease in Intrathecal Immunoactivation during Treatment Intensification in Patients on Stable ART
    4. CSF Escape Is Uncommon in HIV-1-infected Patients on Stable ART
    5. Neuropsychological Performance Is Better in HIV-infected Subjects Treated with Neuroactive HAART
    6. cART Alters Changes in Cerebral Function Testing after 48 Weeks in Treatment-naïve, HIV-1-infected Subjects Commencing cART
    7. CNS Toxicity of Antiretroviral Drugs


  40. Molecular Epidemiology: Evolution, Subtype Distribution, and Viral Diversity

    1. A Refined Evolutionary History for the Emergence of the HIV-1 Subtype C Epidemic in Africa
    2. HIV-1 Recombinants with Multiple Parental Strains in Low-prevalence, Remote Regions of Cameroon
    3. Increase in Inter and Intra Viral Diversity at a Population Level in Uganda from 1994 to 2002
    4. Genetic Characterization of Diverse HIV-1 Strains Circulating in Russia
    5. Molecular Epidemiology of SIV in Eastern Chimpanzees and Gorillas
    6. Identification of a Novel, Highly Divergent HTLV-3 in a Primate Hunter in Cameroon
    7. HIV Subtype D is Associated with Rapid CD4 Decline in ART-naive Ugandan Children


  41. Molecular Epidemiology: Dual/Superinfection and Viral Recombinants

    1. HIV-2 CRF01_AB: First Circulating Recombinant Form of HIV-2
    2. Evidence of HIV-1 Complex and Second Generation Recombinant Strains among Patients Infected in 1997 to 2007 in France: ANRS PRIMO Cohort
    3. The CRF_42BF Outbreak in Luxembourg Is Not Related to a Higher Viral Replication Capacity but to an Elevated Transmission Efficiency
    4. HIV-1 Superinfection Surveillance in an Acute Infection Cohort Using pol Sequences from Resistance Genotyping: 1996 to 2008
    5. Inter-clade Dual HIV-1 Infection: An Emerging Phenomenon


  42. Molecular Epidemiology: Analysis of HIV Transmission Patterns

    1. Analysis of the Degree Distribution of HIV Transmission Networks Inferred from Viral Sequence Data
    2. Bayesian Phylogeography of HIV among MSM in the UK Indicates a Few Source Areas of Widespread Infection
    3. Combination of Phylogenetic Analysis and Patient Data Provides Valuable Insights in a Local HIV-1 Epidemic that Can Help the Design of More Targeted Prevention Programs
    4. Characterizing HIV Transmission Patterns among Injecting Drug Users following an Outbreak in Sargodha, Pakistan


  43. Impact of KIR/HLA on HIV Infection

    1. Next-generation Sequencing for HLA Typing and MHC Sequence Interrogation for Host Genetics of HIV Infection
    2. Effects of Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptor and Human Leukocyte Antigen Genes on Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission
    3. HLA Class II Allele DRB1*1303 Is Associated with Reduced Viral Loads in 2 Independent Cohorts of Different Ethnicity and HIV Clades of Infection
    4. NK Receptor-HLA Ligand Requirements for Increased Polyfunctional Potential in NK Cells from Individuals Carrying KIR3DL1*h/*y+ HLA-B*57


  44. Host Genetics of HIV Infection: Novel Co-factors, Risk Alleles, and Biomarkers

    1. Newly Identified MYH9 Risk Alleles Highly Predictive of HIV-associated Nephropathy
    2. Genome-wide Association Study to Discover AIDS-restriction Candidate Genes and Investigate the Role of Polymorphisms in HIV-dependency Factors
    3. Gene Expression Can Predict the Extent of CD4+ T Cell Recovery in HIV-infected Individuals during Suppressive ART
    4. mRNA Biomarkers for Prediction of CD4 Immune Recovery with ART in Persons with AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
    5. Multi-cohort Identification of a New Chemokine Receptor Risk Allele Involved in AIDS Long-term Non-progression


  45. Insights into Factors Affecting Acute HIV Infection

    1. http://www.retroconference.org/AbstractSearch/Default.aspx?Conf=19&Abs=38960
    2. Escape at KK10 Epitope Fails to Explain Divergent Disease Progression in an HLA-B*27 Transmission Pair
    3. Correlation of Peak and Duration of Viremia with Resting CD4+ T Cell Infection in Acute HIV Infection
    4. Immunological and Virological Comparison between Long-term ART-treated HIV-1 Seroconverters and Long-term Non-progressors
    5. Gag-Protease-mediated Fitness Is Associated with Viral Set Point in Individuals Acutely Infected with HIV-1 Subtype C
    6. A Comparison of Markers of Immune Activation, Inflammation, and HLA Type in Primary HIV Infection
    7. Prevalence and Outcome of Patients Presenting with Thrombopenia at the Time of Primary HIV Infection: A Study Based on 959 Patients Enrolled in the ANRS PRIMO Cohort
    8. Replication Kinetics of Autologous Neutralizing Antibody Escape in Env during Early Subtype C Infection
    9. Phenotypic Characterization of HIV-1 Co-receptor Use in Primary Infection in both Plasma and PBMC Samples
    10. Non-synonymous Mixtures Reveal Fixation of Viral Population after 3 Years of Infection
    11. Incidence of Major Clinical Outcomes in a Cohort of Ugandan and Zimbabwean Women with Primary HIV-1 Infection


  46. Biomarkers and Treatment during Acute HIV Infection

    1. Interleukin-6 and D-dimer in Primary HIV Infection: Effect of Short Course ART and Treatment Discontinuation
    2. A Comparison of HIV Viral Rebound following ART Cessation in Primary and Chronic HIV Infection
    3. Impact of Early ART on Proviral HIV-1 DNA and Plasma Viremia in Acutely Infected Patients
    4. Strong Effect of Early ART during Primary HIV-1 Infection in Preventing further Spread of HIV in Sexually Active Men Having Sex with Men


  47. Molecular Characterization of HIV Transmission and Acute Infection

    1. A Significant Transmission Bottleneck among Newly and Recently HIV-1-infected IDU in St Petersburg, Russia
    2. Molecular Cloning and Biological Characterization of Full-length Transmitted/Founder Viruses from Injection Drug Users, MSM, and Heterosexuals
    3. Ultra-deep Sequencing Accurately Detects HIV Intraclade Dual Infection
    4. HIV-1 Superinfection with a Drug-resistant Strain in a Patient Successfully Controlled with ART
    5. Phylogenetic Linkage and Correlate Analysis in HIV-1 Cohorts: A Complete Software Solution


  48. HIV Transmission and the Mucosa

    1. Effect of Cervical Infections on Genital HIV-1 Shedding in Women Receiving ART
    2. Examining Paths for HIV Entry and Interactions with the Female Genital Epithelium
    3. Cervical Immune Activation and HIV Shedding in the Female Genital Tract during HIV-1 Infection
    4. Phase of Menstrual Cycle Influences Susceptibility to SHIV in a Macaque Model for HIV-1 Infection
    5. Correlation of Rectal HIV-1 RNA Shedding with Plasma Viral Load Is Not Affected by Rectal STIs in MSM with Access to cART


  49. ART: New Agents and Novel Approaches

    1. Inhibition of HIV-1 Infection by Banana Lectin
    2. Small CCR5 Ligand-mediated Allosteric Inhibition of Gp120 Binding Correlates with Inverse Agonism at CCR5 but not with Anti-HIV Activity
    3. RS-788, a Prodrug of B-D-3’-Azido-2,6-diamino-2’,3’-dideoxypurine, Exhibits Potent Activity against NRTI-resistant HIV-1
    4. Development of Dual-targeted Antivirals against HIV and Herpesviruses
    5. Potent HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors Assembled on Nucleobase Scaffolds: Anti-HIV Activity, SAR Analysis, Microsome Stability, Cytochrome P450 Data, and Lead Optimization
    6. Activity of QNL111, an Integrase DNA-binding Inhibitor, on the HIV-1 DNA Integration Process
    7. Expression of Interfering RNA from a Chimeric, HIV-1 Tat-inducible RNA Pol II Promoter
    8. Peptide-based Inhibitors of HIV-1 Pol-protein Maturation
    9. Identification of HIV-1 Capsid Assembly Inhibitors
    10. Effect of Valproic Acid to Purge HIV Reservoir: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial
    11. Mutations Based on Viral Decay Acceleration in the HIV-1 Genomes of a Clinical Population Treated with the Mutagenic Nucleoside KP1461
    12. Epigenetic Drug Gar1041 in Combination with ART Significantly Reduces the Proviral DNA Reservoir in SIVmac251-infected Macaques


  50. Plasma HIV RNA Monitoring: Suppression and Persistent Viremia

    1. Predictors of Attaining <1 Plasma HIV/RNA copies/mL in a Large Italian Cross-sectional Study
    2. Frequency of HIV/RNA Monitoring: Impact on Outcome of ART
    3. HIV-infected Patients with Positive MT-2 Cultures May Need More Frequent Monitoring and/or HAART Initiation at Higher CD4 Counts
    4. Low Level HIV-1 Viremia in Thai Women 24 Weeks after Treatment Initiation with NNRTI-based ART Was Not Associated with Prior Single-dose Nevirapine Exposure or Viral Resistance Mutations
    5. Episodes of HIV Viremia and the Risk of Non-AIDS Events among Successfully Treated Patients
    6. Persistent Low-level Viremia Is Associated with Increased Risk of Virologic Failure and Mortality
    7. Association between Low-level Viremia below 50 Copies/mL and Risk of Virologic Rebound in HIV-infected Patients Receiving HAART
    8. The Rate of Virologic Decay Explains Immunologic Recovery after ART


  51. Keys to Successful Outcomes on ART

    1. Predictors and Time Trends of Stably Suppressed Viral Load among HIV-1-infected Individuals on cART in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study
    2. Relative Effectiveness of Preferred Initial Antiretroviral Regimens in the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems Cohort
    3. Early ART Compared to Deferred ART during Acute Opportunistic Infection Leads to a Reduction in the Systemic Inflammatory Response Resulting in Improved Immunologic Outcomes
    4. A One-pill, Once-daily Fixed-dose Combination of Efavirenz, Emcitrabine, and Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Regimen Is Associated with Higher Unannounced Pill Count Adherence than Non-one-pill, Once-daily Regimens
    5. Elvucitabine vs Lamivudine with Tenofovir and Efavirenz in ART-naïve HIV-1-infected Patients: 96-week Final Results
    6. Effect in vitro of CCR5 Antagonists on Innate Immune System: Maraviroc Inhibits the Migration of Neutrophils, Macrophages, and DC
    7. Effect of CCL3L1 Copy Number Variation on CD4 Cell Recovery in Treatment-naïve Patients: 96-week Results from the Maraviroc in Treatment-naïve Patients Study
    8. Sustained Antiretroviral Efficacy of Raltegravir after 192 Weeks of Combination ART in Treatment-naive HIV-1-infected Patients
    9. Sustained Antiretroviral Effect of Raltegravir at Week 156 in the BENCHMRK Studies and Exploratory Analysis of Late Outcomes based on Early Virologic Responses
    10. Similar Immunologic Responses to Modern HAART among IDU and Non-IDU in a Populational Setting


  52. First Line of Defense: ART in Resource-limited Settings

    1. First-line ART Outcomes in HIV-infected Adults in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
    2. A Comparison of the Immunologic Efficacy of ART in Resource-replete vs Resource-limited Settings
    3. Do Predictors of Late Clinical Progression on First-line ART Differ from Predictors of Early Clinical Progression?
    4. Initial CD4 T Lymphocyte Response Is a Strong Predictor of Death in African Cohort Despite Full Virologic Suppression on HAART at 6 Months
    5. The Effect of Initiating Patients on HAART at CD4 Counts above 200 on Virologic Failure and Death in South Africa: Evidence from the CIPRA-SA Trial
    6. Morbidity in HIV-1-infected Individuals in Rural Uganda 1990 to 2008
    7. Rate of Mortality, Loss to Follow-up, Viral Suppression, Immune Recovery, and Maintenance of Initial Antiretroviral Regimen at 4 Years: 3045 Chilean Patients
    8. Failure to Second-line Therapy and Associated Mortality in 27 MSF-supported African and Asian ART Programs
    9. Proportion of Individuals Likely to Need Treatment for CD4 Thresholds <200,<350, and <500 cells/µL


  53. Life Expectancy on ART

    1. Life Expectancy of Recently Diagnosed Asymptomatic HIV-infected Patients Approaches That of Uninfected Individuals
    2. Time with CD4 Cell Count above 500 cells/mm3 Allows HIV-infected Men, but Not Women, to Reach Similar Mortality Rates to Those of the General Population: A 7-year Analysis
    3. Mortality and Loss to Follow-up by Socio-behavioral Group in Patients Starting ART in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study
    4. Survival Outcomes and Effect of Early vs Deferred Combination Antiretroviral Therapy (cART) among HIV-1-infected Patients Diagnosed at the Time of an AIDS-defining Event in Europe and Canada: a Collaborative Cohort Analysis (1997 to 2004)


  54. Activity and Escape from HIV Entry Inhibitors

    1. Development of Resistance to the Natural HIV-1 Entry Virus Inhibitory Peptide (VIRIP)
    2. Co-receptor Tropism and Viral Resistance Following Short-term Monotherapy with the Anti-CCR5 Monoclonal Antibody PRO 140
    3. Relative Replicative Fitness of HIV-1 Mutants Resistant to Enfuvirtide
    4. Maraviroc Fully Inhibits Dual-R5 Virus in Dual/Mixed HIV-1 Infected Patients
    5. HIV-1 Envelope Determinants and Temporal Analysis of Vicriviroc Resistance in a Subtype C Clinical Isolate
    6. Two Step Escape Pathway of the HIV-1 Subtype C Primary Isolate Induced by the in vitro Selection of Maraviroc
    7. Mechanisms of Virologic Failure with Maraviroc in Treatment Naïve HIV-1 Infected Patients through 96 weeks
    8. Factors Associated With HIV-1 Tropism Determined in Proviral DNA in Antiretroviral-Treated Patients With Fully Suppressed Plasma HIV Viral Load
    9. Reanalysis of Co-receptor Tropism in HIV-1-infected Adults Using a Phenotypic Assay with Enhanced Sensitivity
    10. Genotypic Analysis of the HIV-1 gp120 V3 Loop for Treatment Experienced Patients Enrolled into the MOTIVATE Studies and Who Received Maraviroc + Optimized Background Therapy


  55. Prediction of HIV Co-receptor Use

    1. Predicting HIV-1 Co-receptor Usage and Response to CCR5 Inhibitor Therapy through Episomal cDNA
    2. Determining HIV-1 Coreceptor Tropism Using PBMC Proviral DNA Derived from Aviremic Blood Samples
    3. New V3-genetic Signatures Modulate Co-receptor Usage in vivo and the Interaction with CCR5 N-terminus
    4. A Highly Sensitive and Specific Model for Predicting HIV-1 Tropism in Treatment-Experienced Patients Combining V3 Loop Sequences Interpretation and Clinical Parameters
    5. High Resolution Tropism Kinetics by Quantitative Deep Sequencing in HIV-1-infected Subjects Initiating Suppressive First-line ART
    6. Large-scale Application of Deep Sequencing Using 454 Technology to HIV Tropism Screening


  56. Resistance to Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors

    1. Derivatives of Mesoxalic Acid Inhibit Translocation of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase
    2. Nucleic Acid Template Dependent Risk of PCR-Induced K65R Mutation in Subtype C HIV-1 Isolates
    3. Template-Dependent Mechanisms Involved in K65R Drug Resistance Development in Subtype B and C HIV-1
    4. K65R, L74V/I, and M184V Mutations Are Associated with Hypersusceptibility to First and Next Generation NNRTI
    5. Differential Impact of Amino Acids Arg, Ser, and Thr at HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase Position 70 on Susceptibility towards NRTI and Foscarnet
    6. Mechanism of Resistance to GS-9148 Associated with Q151L in HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase
    7. Selection in vitro of a Novel Etravirine Associated Resistance Mutation in B and non-B HIV-1 Subtypes
    8. Resistance Associated Mutations to Etravirine in Antiretroviral-naïve Patients Infected with Non-B HIV-1 Subtypes


  57. Resistance to Integrase Inhibitors

    1. Resistance-associated Mutations to Integrase Inhibitor S/GSK1349572 in HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitor-naive and Raltegravir-experienced Patients
    2. S/GSK1349572 Is a Potent Next Generation HIV Integrase Inhibitor and Demonstrates a Superior Resistance Profile Substantiated with 60 Integrase Mutant Molecular Clones
    3. Comparison of Raltegravir Susceptible and Resistant Viruses Define the Contribution of Secondary Mutations to Reductions in Raltegravir Susceptibility
    4. Short -Term Raltegravir Monotherapy Does Not Predispose Patients to Develop RAL Resistance during Subsequent Combination Therapy: Analysis of Samples from Protocol 004
    5. Raltegravir Genetic Resistance Patterns in HIV-2 Infected Patients Failing Raltegravir-containing Regimen


  58. Resistance to Protease and Maturation Inhibitors

    1. The Binary Protease Inhibitor, Darunavir, Has a High Genetic Barrier to the Emergence of Resistant HIV-1 Variants
    2. Bayesian Network Analysis of Resistance Pathways in HIV-2 Protease
    3. Identification of HIV-1 Matrix Determinants of Protease Inhibitor Susceptibility and Replication Capacity
    4. Mutations in the HIV Protease Can Enhance the Levels of Bevirimat Resistance


  59. Detection of Minority Resistance Mutations

    1. Sensitive Quantification of Drug-resistant Minor Variants Using a Simplified Design that Tolerates Viral Sequence Heterogeneity
    2. Detection of Minority K65R Variants in NRTI-naive Subtype B and C HIV-1-infected Individuals
    3. Sentinel Mutations in Standard Population Sequencing Can Predict the Presence of RT Major Mutations Detected Only by 454-Pyrosequencing
    4. Primary Mutations Associated with Resistance to Raltegravir are not Detectable by Pyrosequencing in Integrase-Inhibitors Naive Patients
    5. Ultradeep Sequencing Refines Phenotypic Predictions to Darunavir, Etravirine, and Other Protease and Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors in Heavily Pre-Treated Subjects Infected with Multidrug Resistant HIV-1


  60. Evaluation of Sample Storage Technology

    1. Effect of Storage Conditions on HIV-1 RNA Quantification and Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplification for Drug Resistance Genotyping from Dried Blood and Plasma Spots
    2. HIV-1 Drug Resistance Genotyping and Subtyping Using Dried Fluid Spots, United States, 2005 to 2009
    3. Minority Resistance Detection in Stored Dried Blood Spots Indicates High Specimen Integrity and Provides an Expansive Record of Archived Resistance
    4. Evaluation of SampleTankers®, a Resource-Limited-Setting-Friendly-Sample Collection Device for HIV-1 Drug Resistance (DR) Genotyping Analysis


  61. Genotypic Assays for HIV Drug Resistance

    1. Evaluation of an Affordable Assay for Drug-resistance Genotyping of All Major HIV-1 Subtypes
    2. HIV-1 Genotypic Resistance Tests Performed in Cellular DNA are Less Informative than those Collected from Previous Plasma RNAs in Treatment Experienced Patients with Suppressed Viremia: a Sub-Study of EASIER-ANRS 138 Trial
    3. Improved Genotypic Algorithm for Predicting Etravirine Susceptibility: Comprehensive List of Mutations Identified Through Correlation with Matched Phenotype
    4. Simultaneous Detection of HIV-1 Drug Resistant Minority Genotypes by a Multiplex Oligonucleotide Ligation Assay


  62. Phenotypic Assays for HIV Drug Resistance

    1. Genotypic Predictions of CXCR4 Use Are Significantly Impacted by Phenotypic Assay Sensitivity and Disease Stage
    2. Assessing Replication Capacity and Susceptibility to Maturation and Protease Inhibitors Using a PhenoSenseHIV Assay that Captures Contiguous gag-pro Sequences
    3. Novel High-throughput HIV-1 Protease-resistance Phenotypic Assay Using Cell-free Protein Production System
    4. Toward Optimal ART for HIV-2 Infection: Can Genotypic and Phenotypic Drug Resistance Testing Help Guide Therapy in HIV-2?


  63. Prevalence and Consequences of Transmitted Drug Resistance

    1. Prevalence of Transmitted Antiretroviral Drug Resistance among Newly-diagnosed HIV-1-infected Persons, US, 2007
    2. Prevalence of Mutations Associated with Transmitted Drug Resistant HIV among BED Recent Versus Long-term Infections, US, 2006
    3. Prevalence and Virologic Consequences of Transmitted Drug Resistance Mutations in Uganda
    4. Association with Transmission of M184V/I and a Reduced Viral Load in Therapy-naïve Patients in the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems Cohort


  64. Changing Prevalence of Multidrug Resistance

    1. Methods for Estimating the Prevalence of Multidrug Resistance in ART-experienced Patients in North America
    2. Decreasing Prevalence of Drug Resistance Mutations over a 7 Year Period in the CFAR Network of Integrated Clinical Systems
    3. Opposite Trends in Multiclass HIV-1 Drug Resistance and Exhaustion of Drug Options in Treatment-experienced Patients Undergoing Resistance Testing in 7 Western European Countries from 1997 to 2008


  65. Adherence–Drug Resistance Relationships

    1. Strong Association between Medication Possession Ratio and Early Virological Outcomes in Adults on ART in Côte d’Ivoire
    2. Adherence-resistance Relationships for Lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r)-based Regimens in Treatment-experienced Subjects


  66. Mechanisms of Activity and Failure of ART

    1. Genotypic Resistance at Viral Rebound in Antiretroviral-Naive Subjects Randomized to Receive Lopinavir/Ritonavir (LPV/r) or Efavirenz (EFV)-Based Regimens in South Africa - A Substudy of the Phidisa II Trial
    2. Estimation of Virological Residual Activity on a Regimen of Abacavir/Zidovudine/Lamivudine
    3. Risk of Virological Failure of Antiretroviral Regimens including Nevirapine, Tenofovir, and Emtricitabine (or Lamivudine) in Previously Treated HIV-1-infected Patients
    4. High Frequency of Protease Drug Resistance Mutation among HIV-1 Infected Patients Exposed to Second-line Antiretroviral Regimen in South India
    5. Bulk and Clonal Resistance Analyses in Highly Experienced Patients Failing Raltegravir, Etravirine, and Darunavir/ritonavir Containing Regimen (ANRS 139 TRIO Trial)


  67. Strategies to Prevent HIV Drug Resistance

    1. Early Switch Based on Virological Failure Reduces Complexity of HIV-1 Drug Resistance
    2. Patient-Selected Treatment Partners Did Not Protect against Development of Resistance during NNRTI-based HAART in a Randomized Clinical Trial
    3. Predicted Effect on Transmission of HIV-1 Resistance of Timing of Implementation of Viral Load Monitoring to Determine Switches from First to Second Line Antiretroviral Regimens in Resource-limited Settings


  68. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Entry Inhibitors

    1. Achieving a Target Exposure to PRO 140 Results in Maximal Viral Load Reduction by Subcutaneous or Intravenous Administration
    2. Pharmacokinetics (PK) and Pharmacodynamics (PD) of TBR 652, a Chemokine Receptor 5 (CCR5) Antagonist, in HIV 1-Infected, Antiretroviral (ARV) Treatment-Experienced, CCR5 Antagonist–Naïve Patients
    3. Solute Carrier Organic Anion Transporter 1B1 (SLCO1B1) Mediates Transport of Maraviroc Using a X. leavis Model


  69. Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Pharmacogenetics of NRTI and NNRTI

    1. Association of ABCC10 Polymorphisms with Nevirapine Plasma Concentrations in the German Competence Network for HIV/AIDS
    2. Integrating Pharmacogenetics and Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis: Simulating the Impact of CYP2B6 516G>T for 400 mg Once Daily Nevirapine Dosing
    3. Nevirapine Pharmacokinetics When Initiated at 200 mg or 400 mg Daily in HIV-1 and Tuberculosis Co-infected Ugandan Adults on Rifampicin
    4. Nevirapine Increases Lumefantrine Exposure in HIV-infected Patients
    5. Concentrations of Efavirenz in Hair Correlate Strongly with 24-hour Intensive Pharmacokinetic Measurements and with Virologic Outcomes
    6. Assessment of Bioequivalence of Tenofovir, Emtricitabine, and Efavirenz (Atripla) Fixed-dose Combination Tablet Compared with a Compounded Oral Liquid Formulation Derived from the Tablet
    7. Lack of Interaction between Etravirine and Raltegravir plus Darunavir/Ritonavir When Combined in Treatment-experienced Patients: A Substudy of the ANRS 139 TRIO Trial
    8. Thymidylate Synthase Polymorphisms Determine Stavudine Triphosphate Intracellular Levels in HIV-1-infected Patients Treated With a Stavudine-based Antiretroviral Regime


  70. Antiretroviral Agent Penetration into Genital Secretions

    1. Raltegravir Concentrations in the Cervicovaginal Compartment Exceed the Median Inhibitory Concentration in HIV-1-infected Women Treated with a Raltegravir-containing Regimen: DIVA 01 Study
    2. Steady-state Raltegravir Penetration in Seminal Plasma of Healthy Volunteers
    3. Darunavir Concentrations in Seminal Plasma in Patients Receiving Darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) Monotherapy: A MONOI-ANRS 136 Substudy
    4. Darunavir (DRV) Concentrations Exceed the Protein-corrected (PC) EC50 for Wild Type HIV in the Semen of HIV-1 Positive Infected Men
    5. Maraviroc Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) and Seminal Plasma from HIV-Infected Patients


  71. Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions of Integrase Inhibitors

    1. Raltegravir is a Substrate for the Influx Transporters OAT1 and PEPT1 and the Efflux Transporter Pgp But Is Not Transported by OATP1A2, OATP1B1, OATP1B3, OCT1, NTCP, or PEPT2
    2. Intracellular and Plasma Pharmacokinetics of Raltegravir in HIV-Infected Patients
    3. MPC-4326 Drug-Drug Interaction Profile
    4. Effect of Atazanavir and Atazanavir/Ritonavir on the Pharmacokinetics of the Next Generation Integrase Inhibitor, S/GSK1349572


  72. Pharmacokinetics and Drug Interactions of Protease Inhibitors

    1. Identification of Novel Factors that Influence Atazanavir Exposure in a Diverse Population of HIV-infected Women under Conditions of Actual Use
    2. A Population Pharmacokinetic Model Illustrates an Association Between a Pregnane-X-Receptor (PXR) Polymorphism and Boosted Atazanavir Clearance
    3. Immune Activation Mediated Change in the Plasma Binding Protein Alpha-1-Acid Glycoprotein Alters Plasma Lopinavir Concentrations
    4. Pharmacokinetic Interactions Between Buprenorphine/Naloxone and Once-Daily Lopinavir/Ritonavir
    5. Bidirectional Pharmacokinetic Interaction Between Posaconazole and Fosamprenavir
    6. Laboratory Macrophage Screening Assays Predict Pharmacokinetics of Controlled Release Nanoformulated Antiretroviral Drugs


  73. Hepatitis B: Epidemiology and Prevention

    1. A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of 4 Intramuscular Double Doses or 4 Intradermal Low Doses with 3 Intramuscular Standard Doses of HBV in HIV-infected Adults: Results of the ANRS HB03 VIHVAC-B Trial
    2. Accelerated Hepatitis B Vaccination Schedule in HIV-infected Patients
    3. Hepatitis B Vaccine Response Predicts Progression to Clinical AIDS or Death
    4. Genotype G Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and Advanced Liver Fibrosis in HIV/HBV Co-infected Patients
    5. HBV DNA Is Not Detected in the Semen of Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B and Undetectable Serum HBV DNA as a Result of Nucleotide Antiviral Treatment
    6. Clinical and Laboratory Factors Associated with Isolated Hepatitis B Core Antibody (anti-HBc) Status Among HIV-infected Subjects in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS)
    7. Hepatitis B Viruses Infecting Wild African Great Apes


  74. Hepatitis B: Treatment

    1. Tenofovir Is Effective in Suppressing Hepatitis B Viremia in HIV/HBV Co-infection Regardless of Previous Lamivudine/Emtricitabine Treatment
    2. 5-Year Tenofovir Therapy Is Associated with Maintained HBV Response and Renal Toxicity in HIV/HBV Co-infected Patients
    3. A Longitudinal Analysis of Factors Associated with HBV DNA Suppression in an International Prospectively-followed HIV/HBV Co-infected Cohort
    4. High Early Mortality in Chronic Hepatitis B and HIV Co-infected Kenyan Patients Starting HAART and Emergence of Lamivudine Resistance
    5. HBeAg Index Measurement is Predictive of HBe Seroconversion in HIV-HBV Co-Infected Patients Treated with Tenofovir (TDF)
    6. http://www.retroconference.org/AbstractSearch/Default.aspx?Conf=19&Abs=39202
    7. Mutational Analysis of Baseline HBV pol Mutations and Response to Entecavir (ETV) Intensification in Extensively Tenofovir (TDF) and Lamivudine (3TC)/Emtricitabine (FTC) Experienced HIV-HBV Co-infected Patients with Suppressed HIV RNA
    8. The Synergistic Interaction Between Immunological and Pharmacological Selective Pressure in HIV-HBV Co-infected Patients is a Potent Driver of HBV Evolution and Drug Resistance Emergence
    9. Treatment-induced and Vaccine Escape HBV Mutants in HIV-HBV Co-infected Patients: A Longitudinal Analysis


  75. Acute Hepatitis C Infection

    1. Kinetically Guided PEG Alfa-2a and RBV Therapy for HIV-+ Adults with Acute HCV Infection
    2. The Use of Week 4 HCV-RNA After Acute HCV Infection (AHC) to Predict Chronic HCV Infection
    3. Treatment Outcome of Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection in HIV-infected MSM: The Effect of Treatment Length
    4. Liver Fibrosis Progression after Acute HCV Infection (AHC) in HIV+ Individuals


  76. Hepatitis C: Epidemiology and Outcomes

    1. Hepatitis C Epidemic among HIV+ Men Who Have Sex with Men Started before 2000
    2. Declining Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Incidence Over 20 Years among HIV Positive and Negative Injection Drug Users (IDU) in Baltimore, MD (1988 to 2008)
    3. Incidence, Genotype Distribution, and Prognosis of Sexually Transmitted Acute Hepatitis C in a Cohort of HIV-infected Patients
    4. Molecular Epidemiology of HCV Genotypes Among Injection Drug Users in Taiwan: Identification of A New Subtype 6v and Unique Recombinant Form_2b6v
    5. Factors Associated with Hepatitis C Viral Load in a Nation-wide French Cohort of HIV-HCV Co-infected Patients (ANRS C013 HEPAVIH)
    6. Impact of HTLV-1 Simultaneous Infection on the Curse of HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients
    7. Factors Associated With Liver Disease Severity in a Cohort of Patients with HIV
    8. All-Cause Mortality in HIV-Infected Patients in Spain Compared to the General Population according to HCV Status


  77. Hepatitis C: Predictors and Determinants of Response to Therapy and Its Complications

    1. Quasispecies Diversity of the HCV NS3/4A Protease and Treatment Outcome with Peginterferon plus Ribavirin in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients
    2. Polymorphisms at the ENT1 Gene Influence the Rate of Rapid Virological Response to Hepatitis C Therapy in HIV/HCV-Co-infected Patients
    3. Temporal Dynamics of HCV Genotype in Different Compartments May Influence the Anti-HCV Treatment Response in HIV/HCV-infected Individuals
    4. Increased Microbial Translocation Is Associated with Lack of Early Virological Response to Pegylated Interferon + Ribavirin Treatment in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients with Good Viro-Immunological Response to HAART
    5. Insulin Resistance Is a Major Predictor of Sustained Virological Response to Peginterferon and Ribavirin in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients Undergoing HCV Retreatment
    6. Interleukin 28 B Genotype Is a Potent Predictor of Response to Therapy with Pegylated Interferon plus Ribavirin in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients
    7. Evaluation of the Anti-Hepatitis C Virus Activity and Pharmacokinetics of ATI-0810, a Novel Inhibitor of Hepatitis C Virus Replication
    8. Incidence and Predictors of Anemia in HCV/HIV Co-infected Subjects Treated with Pegylated Interferon (PEG) and Ribavirin (RBV) in A5178 (SLAM-C)


  78. Hepatitis C Therapy: ART Interactions

    1. Fast Liver Damage Progression in HIV/HCV-co-infected Patients in Spite of Effective HAART
    2. Biomarkers of Inflammation and Coagulation and Risk of Non-AIDS Death (NAD) in HIV/Hepatitis Co-infected Patients in the SMART Study
    3. Genetic Variability of the Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Protease in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients Treated with HIV Protease Inhibitors
    4. Hepatic Safety and Efficacy of Raltegravir in Patients Co-infected with HIV and HBV or HCV
    5. Effect of Accompanying Antiretroviral Drugs on Virologic Response to PEG-IFN and Ribavirin in HIV/HCV-Co-infected Patients
    6. Impact of Zidovudine on Hematologic Parameters during Treatment with Peginterferon alfa-2a plus Ribavirin for Chronic Hepatitis C in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients Enrolled in a Large Randomized Double-blind Study


  79. Hepatitis C: Metabolic and Vascular Interactions

    1. Infection with HIV and HCV Enhances the Release of Fatty Acid Synthase Into Circulation: Evidence for a Novel Indicator of Viral Co-infection
    2. Hepatitis C Viral Load Increases in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy and Correlates With Increases in vLDL Particle Apolipoprotein CIII
    3. Hepatitis C Infection Increases Endothelial Dysfunction in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients
    4. HIV Infection, Hepatitis C Infection, and the Risk of Stroke in the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Virtual Cohort (VACS-VC)
    5. Fluvastatin as an Adjuvant to Pegylated-interferon and Ribavirin in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients: A Randomized, Open-label Study


  80. Hepatitis Immunology

    1. The CD14+, CD16+ Monocytic Reservoir of Replicating HCV is Significantly Increased in Individuals with HIV/HCV Co-Infection Compared to Individuals with HCV Infection Without HIV Co-infection
    2. High Rate of Hepatitis C Infection Clearance in HIV-1 Natural Viral Suppressors
    3. HCV Stimulates HIV Immune Activation in HIV/HCV Co-infected Subjects on HAART
    4. Hepatitis C Co-infection Sensitizes CD4+ T Cells Towards Fas-induced Apoptosis in Viremic HIV-Positive Patients
    5. Strong HCV and HIV Immune Responses in Co-infected Subjects Who Experienced ALT Flare and/or Rebound HCV Viral Load After ART Initiation
    6. Influence of HAART on Hepatitis C Virus Escape from CD8+ T Cell Immune Pressure
    7. Successful Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Treatment Improves CD4-T Lymphocyte Reconstitution in HIV/HCV Co-Infected Adults
    8. Restoration of Virus-Specific T-Cell Responses in HIV and/or HCV Infected Patients by Using IL-10 and TGF-ß Blocking Peptides
    9. Contrasting Effects of IL-15 and PD-1/L1 Blockade on HBV and HIV-specific effector CD4+ and CD8+ T cell Immunity in HIV Positive Chronic Hepatitis B Patients


  81. Predictors of Liver Fibrosis

    1. Usefulness of Three Biomarker Indexes as Predictors of Liver Fibrosis Progression in a Large Cohort of HIV-Infected Patients Followed for 5 Years
    2. Impact of Immunosuppression on Liver Fibrosis Progression in a Large Cohort of HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients
    3. HIV Mono-infection Is Associated with a Non-invasive Index of Liver Fibrosis in Women
    4. Elevated Levels of Serum Markers of Liver Inflammation and Fibrosis in HIV-Infected Patients Are Associated With Hepatitis C Virus Co-infection but Not With HAART Use
    5. Interruption of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) is Associated with Progression of Liver Fibrosis in HIV/HCV Co-infected Adults


  82. Hepatitis: Cirrhosis, Cancer, and Transplant

    1. Survival of HIV-Infected Patients with Compensated Liver Cirrhosis
    2. Screening for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients: Impact on Staging, Therapy, and Survival
    3. In the HAART Era, in Viral Cirrhosis Liver Transplant Candidates, HIV Co-infection Remains as an Independent Predictor of Mortality on the Waiting List, but Not after Liver Transplantation
    4. Short-term Plasma HIV-1 RNA Viral Load and Immunological Changes Following Transitory Discontinuation of HAARTafter Liver Transplantation (OLT) in HIV-1 Infected Recipients
    5. Outcomes in HIV/HCV Hemophilic vs Non-hemophilic Transplant Candidates


  83. Hepatitis B and C: The Next Chapter in the Management of HIV in Resource-limited Countries

    1. High Prevalence of Unexplained Liver Fibrosis Associated with HIV in Rural Southwestern Uganda
    2. Response to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Hepatitis B and HIV Co-infected West Africans
    3. Factors Associated with Hepatotoxicity in an International HIV/HBV Co-infected Cohort on Long-term HAART
    4. Characterization of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and its Association with HIV in an Antiretroviral Therapy(ART)-naïve, Multi-national Cohort from 2 Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG)
    5. Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection among Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 Infected Pregnant Women in Malawi: The BAN Study
    6. Prevalence of Hepatitis B and C Co-infection and Response to Antiretroviral Therapy among HIV-infected Patients in an Urban Setting in Tanzania
    7. Prevalence and Clinical Course of Occult Hepatitis B (HBV) Infection in Serology Negative HIV Patients in Johannesburg, South Africa (SA)
    8. HBV Polymerase and Surface Mutations in a Cohort of HIV/HBV Co-infected Patients Accessing Lamivudine-based HAART in Kumasi, Ghana


  84. Hepatitis E and GBV-C

    1. Hepatitis E Virus Sero-prevalence and Chronic Infection in HIV Patients with Unexplained ALT Elevation: The Swiss HIV Cohort Study
    2. GBV-C Specific Antibodies in HIV+ Patients Anti-E2 Antibodies Alone Are Not Sufficient to Determine an Eliminated GBV-C Infection


  85. Cardiovascular Disease: Pathogenesis

    1. Ritonavir and Lopinavir Boosted with Ritonavir Induce Endothelial dysfunction and Premature Senescence in Cultured Human Coronary Artery Endothelial Cells
    2. Myocardial Viral Load Associated with Diastolic Dysfunction in SIV-infected Macaques
    3. Increased Endothelial Precursor Cells Are Not Associated with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Progression in Chronically HIV-1-Infected Subjects


  86. Predictors of Cardiovascular Risk and Carotid Intima-media Thickness

    1. Correlation of Inflammatory Biomarkers with the Framingham Coronary Risk Score in Antiretroviral-Naive HIV-1 Infected Subjects
    2. Visceral Fat but Not General Adiposity Is a Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease in HIV-infected Males
    3. Improved Correlation of Coronary Atherosclerosis with Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Assessed With Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) Equation Than with MDRD and Cockcroft-Gault in HIV Infected Patients
    4. An Individual-Patient Meta-analysis to Study the Association between Anti-Retrovirals and Atherosclerosis
    5. Day-night Blood Pressure Changes in Treatment-Naive HIV-Infected Patients


  87. Progression of Atherosclerosis: Role of Inflammation and T Cell Activation

    1. Earlier Initiation of Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Individuals is Associated with Reduced Arterial Stiffness
    2. Inflammation is Associated with Endothelial Dysfunction among Individuals with Treated and Suppressed HIV Infection
    3. T Cell Senescence and T Cell Activation Predict Carotid Atherosclerosis in HIV-infected Women
    4. Rates and Determinants of Progression of Carotid Artery Intima-media Thickness and Coronary Artery Calcium in HIV Infection


  88. Cardiovascular Events: Assessment, Predictors, and Outcomes

    1. Evaluation of Antiretroviral Agents and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Using Tc99 Testing Stress Testing Outcomes
    2. N-Terminal-proB-type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP) Predicts Cardiovascular Disease Events in HIV-Infected Patients: Results of the SMART Study
    3. Elevated D-dimer but Not CRP Levels in HIV+ Patients Prior to Incident Myocardial Infarction or Other Cardiovascular Disease Event
    4. Incomplete Immune Recovery on HAART Is Associated with Significant More Cardiovascular Events and a Trend Towards More Non-AIDS Related Malignancies in Dutch ATHENA Cohort
    5. The Impact of HIV Infection on Outcomes Following Coronary Revascularization


  89. Abacavir and Cardiovascular Disease: Search for a Mechanism

    1. Abacavir Induces Human Leukocyte Endothelial Cell Interactions
    2. Abacavir, a Competitive Inhibitor of Soluble Guanylyl Cyclase, Increases Platelet Reactivity
    3. Changes in Cardiovascular Biomarkers with Abacavir: a Randomized, 96-Week Trial


  90. Dyslipidemia and Fat Changes: ART Effects

    1. Greater Postprandial LDL-cholesterol Excursions With Low Dose Ritonavir Vs Raltegravir in HIV-uninfected Adults: a Randomized Study
    2. Metabolic Profiles and Body Composition Changes in Treatment-Naive HIV-Infected Patients Treated with Raltegravir 400 mg Twice-daily vs Efavirenz 600 mg Each bedtime Combination Therapy: 96-Week Follow-Up
    3. Fat Tissue Distribution Changes in HIV-infected Patients with Viral Suppression Treated with Darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) Monotherapy Versus 2 NRTI + DRV/r in the MONOI –ANRS 136 Randomized Trial : Results at 48 Weeks


  91. Fat: Pathogenesis, Measurement, and Interventions

    1. Telmisartan Reverses Ritonavir Induced Anti-adipogenic Toxicity In An in vitro Murine Adipocyte Model
    2. A 48-week Randomized Study of Uridine Supplementation vs Switch to TDF on Limb Fat, Mitochondrial Function, Inflammation, and Bone Mineral Density in HIV Lipoatrophy
    3. Validation of Anthropometry and BIA against DEXA for Body Composition Assessment in Antiretroviral-naïve HIV-infected Thai Patients


  92. Complications of HIV Disease: Epidemiology and Predictors of Mortality

    1. Inflammation and Mortality in HIV-infected Adults: Analysis of the FRAM Study Cohort
    2. Non-AIDS Defining Events among HAART-Treated Adults in an Urban US vs an Urban sSub-Saharan African Setting
    3. Prevalence of Poly-pathology is More Common in HIV Infected Patients Than in HIV Negative Controls in Any Age Strata
    4. Chronic Lung Disease in Adolescents with Vertically-Acquired HIV Infection in Harare, Zimbabwe


  93. Complications: Role of Genetic Markers and Mitochondrial DNA

    1. Accumulated Molecular Damage and Long-Term Anti-Retroviral Therapy
    2. Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Mitochondrial RNA (mtRNA) Does Not Predict Lactic Acidosis or Symptomatic Hyperlactatemia for HIV-infected patients on Antiretroviral Therapy : a Sub-study of the INITIO Trial
    3. Hemochromatosis Gene Variants and Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number in Chronically Treated, HIV-infected Persons
    4. Contribution of Genome-Wide Significant Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms to New-Onset Diabetes Mellitus in HIV-infected Subjects Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy


  94. Renal Disease: Mechanisms and Outcomes

    1. Factors Associated With Decreased Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) in HIV-infected Adults Enrolled in the MTCT-Plus Initiative in Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries
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    3. HAART is Associated with Improved Kidney Function in Patients with Impaired Kidney Function at Baseline but Was Associated with Slight Worsening of Kidney Function in Patients with Normal Baseline Kidney Function
    4. Intrarenal Inflammation Contributes to HIV-Related Proteinuria
    5. The Value of Urine Protein/Creatinine and Albumin/Creatinine Ratios in Assessing Renal Disease in HIV Infection


  95. Renal Disease: Incidence Outcomes and Mechanisms of Disease

    1. Determinants of Incident Chronic Kidney Disease in a Cohort of HIV-Infected Patients with Free Access to Care
    2. Outcome and Prognostic Factors in HIV-1-Infected Dialysis Patients in Spain in the HAART Era: a Case-Control GESIDA/SEN Study
    3. Predictors for Change in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in HIV-infected Individuals With or Without cART: The Swiss HIV Cohort Study
    4. Chronic Renal Failure in HIV-Infected Patients: Incidence and Risk Factors (ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort, France)
    5. Genetic Variants Of ABCC10 Are Associated With Kidney Tubular Dysfunction In Patients Treated With Tenofovir-containing Regimens
    6. Efficient Lymphocyte-to-Epithelial Cell HIV Transfer Induces Viral Gene Expression in Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells
    7. HIV-1 Viral Protein R Induces ERK and Caspase-8 Dependent Apoptosis in Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells


  96. Bone Disease: Risk Factors

    1. High Prevalence of Reduced Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in Primary HIV-infected Men
    2. Longitudinal Analysis of Bone Mineral Density in Aging Men With or at Risk for HIV Infection
    3. Changes in Bone Mineral Density: 2-year Follow-up of the ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort
    4. Bone Turnover, and In Particular Osteoclast Activity, is Increased in Patients with Confirmed Proximal Renal Tubulopathy Within the Swiss HIV Cohort Study
    5. Renal Phosphate Wasting and Increased Bone Turnover in Tenofovir-Treated Patients are not Mediated by Low 25(OH) Vitamin D or Hyperparathyroidism


  97. Got Milk? Vitamin D Deficiency Prevalence and Associations

    1. Assessment of Vitamin D Levels among HIV-infected Persons in the Study to Understand the Natural History of HIV/AIDS in the Era of Effective Therapy (SUN Study)
    2. Prevalence of Hypovitaminosis D among HIV+ Patients Enrolled in a Large Italian Cohort
    3. High Prevalence of Severe Vitamin D Deficiency in cART Naïve and Successfully Treated Swiss HIV Patients
    4. Vitamin D and HIV-related Complications and HIV Disease Progression in Women in Tanzania
    5. Vitamin D Deficiency and Bacterial Vaginosis among HIV-infected and -uninfected Women in the United States


  98. Immune Responses to KSHV/HHV-8

    1. NK Cells Exhibit Distinct Phenotypes in HIV-1 Infection Compared to HIV-1/ HHV-8 Co-infection
    2. Identification of an Immunodominant Late-lytic Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus (KSHV) Specific Epitope; T Cell Memory Phenotypes in KSHV Infections


  99. Risk Factors and Outcomes for AIDS-related Malignancies

    1. Do People with AIDS Develop Cancer at Younger Ages than the General Population?
    2. Trends in Cumulative Incidence of Cancer Among HIV-infected Patients in North America
    3. Functional Immune Response is Associated with Risk of Cancer in a Cohort of HIV-Infected Patients
    4. Biomarkers of Angiogenesis and gHerpeseviruses and the Development of Cancer in Patients on Episodic and Continuous Antiretroviral Therapy in SMART
    5. Increased All-Cause and Cancer Mortality Associated with HTLV-II Infection
    6. Cause or Consequence? Peripheral CD4 Cell Counts and Hodgkin’s Disease in Patients on cART
    7. Short and Long Term Effect of Kaposi Sarcoma on the Response to HAART in the Setting of the South African HIV Epidemic


  100. Cervical and Anal Cancer: Screening, Prevalence, and Therapy

    1. The Risk of HPV-related Cancers Compared to Other AIDS-defining Malignancies in US Veterans
    2. Prevalence and Persistence of Integrated Oncogenic HPV in HIV+ Women
    3. High Levels of Severe Dysplasia Detected in Anal Biopsies from HIV-infected Men Who Have Sex with Men in Sydney, Australia
    4. The Effect of HAART on the Incidence of Squamous Cell Cancer of the Anus
    5. Topical 5-Fluorouracil-Treatment of Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia in HIV+ Men: Results from a Prospective Multicenter Study
    6. Comparison of Conventional Pap Smear and Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid in HIV-infected Women in Western Kenya


  101. Diagnostics: TB and Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia

    1. Improved Immuno-diagnosis of M. tuberculosis Infection in HIV-infected Patients Using Monocyte-derived Interferon Gamma Inducible Protein 10 as a New Biomarker
    2. Performance of Microscopic Observation Drug Susceptibility Assay for the Diagnosis of TB in Resource-limited Settings
    3. Real Time PCR as a Diagnostic Tool can Improve the Diagnosis of Symptomatic Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Bronchioalveolar Lavage Fluids


  102. TB Screening: Strategies and Diagnostic Testing

    1. Intensified Case Finding for Active Tuberculosis among Adults Enrolled in HIV Care and Treatment at an Urban Hospital in Mozambique
    2. Screening for Active Tuberculosis Before INH Chemoprophylaxis in West African Adults with High CD4 Counts: Inclusion Phase of Temprano ANRS 12136
    3. The Effect of Antiretroviral Therapy on Tuberculosis Sputum Smear Status in HIV-Infected Individuals in South Africa
    4. Development of a Novel MIG/IP-10 qPCR Assay for Sensitive Detection of Antigen-specific T Cells and Its Use in the Identification of Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in a HIV/MTB Co-infected Population


  103. TB Incidence: Impact of ART

    1. Increased Baseline CD4 Cell Count at ART Initiation Decreases Early Mortality and Incidence of Tuberculosis in an Urban HIV Clinic in Sub-Saharan Africa
    2. Tuberculosis Risk Before and After Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation in a Cohort of HIV-infected Persons in Care
    3. Changing Burden of HIV Infection on Tuberculosis Epidemic in the Metropolitan Area of Milan
    4. Incident Tuberculosis and Mortality in the Themba Lethu Clinical Cohort, Johannesburg, South Africa
    5. Injection Drug Users at High Risk for Incident M. tuberculosis Infection in Tijuana, Mexico


  104. TB Outcomes: HIV, ART, and Immune Mechanisms

    1. Effect of HIV Infection on Outcomes of Therapy for Pulmonary Tuberculosis Disease in 2 Clinical Trials
    2. The Association of Tuberculosis (TB) Treatment Duration and Intermittency with Death and TB Recurrence Risk in HIV-Infected Persons
    3. Immunologic Benefits Associated with Suppression of HIV Replication during Treatment for HIV/TB Co-infection
    4. Functional Responses of Mycobacterial-specific CD4+ T Cells Are Maintained in Individuals Co-infected with HIV and Tuberculosis
    5. Multiple Cytokines Induced by a New Effective Booster Vaccine against HIV-associated Tuberculosis


  105. Multidrug-resistant TB

    1. Long Term Treatment Outcomes of Patients with Extensively Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and HIV
    2. Impact of HIV Co-infection on Outpatient Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis Epidemic in a High-income Metropolitan Setting


  106. OI Prophylaxis

    1. May Pneumocystis Prophylaxis Be Safely Discontinued in Virologically Suppressed Patients with CD4 Counts below 200 Cells/µL? The Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research Europe (COHERE)
    2. The Effects of Cotrimoxazole Preventive Therapy & Viremia on Mortality During ART in a South African Program


  107. IRIS: Incidence and Pathogenesis

    1. Immune Inflammatory Reconstitution Syndrome (IRIS) among US Subjects Starting Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Study A5202
    2. TB-Associated Immune Restoration Syndrome is Associated with the Expansion of a Polyclonal and Polyspecific Immune Response Against the Present Pathogen. The ANRS EP21 PARADOX-TB Assay
    3. T Cell Responses to HIV-1 and Opportunistic Pathogens in HIV-1+ IRIS vs Non-IRIS Patients


  108. Malaria and HIV

    1. Plasmodium falciparum Enhancement of HIV-1 Replication in an in vitro Model System
    2. Elucidating Immune Mechanisms of Disease Exacerbation in HIV/Malaria Co-infection Using a Nonhuman Primate Model
    3. High Prevalence of “Occult” Plasmodium Infections in HIV-Infected Sub-Saharan Africans Recently Immigrated to Spain


  109. Clostridium difficile, Leprosy, Leishmania, and Cryptococcal Disease

    1. Incidence and Risk Factors for Clostridium difficile Infection in HIV Patients from 2003 to 2007
    2. Effector NKT Cells in Leprosy and HIV Infection
    3. High Levels of T Lymphocyte Activation and Inflammatory Cytokines Are Observed in Leishmania-HIV-1 Co-infected Individuals
    4. Trends in Treatment of Adults with Incident Cryptococcosis, South Africa, 2005 to 2008


  110. Swine Flu Meets HIV

    1. New Swine Origin Influenza A (H1N1)v in HIV-Infected Patients During the 2009 Outbreak in Mexico City
    2. LB 2009 H1N1 Virus Infection in HIV+ Adults
    3. LB Clinical Features of Subjects Infected with HIV and H1N1 Influenza Virus
    4. LB Immunogenicity of One Dose of Influenza A H1N1v 2009 Vaccine Formulated with and without AS03A-Adjuvant in HIV+ Adults: Preliminary Report of the ANRS 151 Randomized HIFLUVAC Trial
    5. LB Low Rate of Immunoresponse to the Novel Split Virion, Inactivated, Adjuvanted Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccine in HIV-1-infected Patients
    6. LB Poor Immunogenicity of the H1N1 2009 Vaccine in Well Controlled HIV-infected Individuals: Interim Results of an Immunogenicity Trial
    7. LB Elevated 2009 H1N1 Antibody Titers in HIV-infected and Uninfected Women in the US: A Sero-study, March 1 to September 30, 2009
    8. LB Safety of an Inactivated H1N1 2009 H1N1 Vaccine in HIV-1-infected Pregnant Women, IMPAACT P1086
    9. LB 2009 H1N1 Immunization in HIV-1 Perinatally Infected Children and Youth


  111. Influenza: Incidence and Prevention

    1. Prevalence and Predictors of Seasonal Influenza Vaccination among HIV-Infected Persons Receiving Care in the United States, 2007
    2. The Cost Effectiveness of Influenza Vaccination among HIV+ Patients Receiving ART
    3. A Controlled Trial to Compare the Immunogenicity and Efficacy of Three Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Dosing Strategies in HIV Infected Adults


  112. Pneumococcal Vaccine Responses

    1. The Impact of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy on Antibody Responses Following Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination With or Without a TLR9-agonist
    2. A Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Revaccination with Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPV) to Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) among HIV-Infected Adults


  113. Response to ART in Resource-limited Countries

    1. Prognosis of HIV-1 Infected Patients Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Collaborative Analysis of Scale-up Programs
    2. Evaluation of Clinical and Immunological Markers for Predicting Virological Failure in a Cohort Study in Busia, Kenya
    3. Response to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) of HIV/HCV Co-infected Patients at Outpatient Clinics in Vietnam
    4. Survival in Care and CD4 Cell Count Gain on First-line ART Depend on Prior CD4 Cell Count and Time on Treatment: Evidence from a Large South African Cohort
    5. Association Between Early Immune Recovery and Subsequent Mortality Among Malnourished Patients Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in Lusaka, Zambia
    6. Novel Structured Teaching of HIV Patients in Resource-limiting Setting: Effect of Learning Outcomes on Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy and Immunological Recovery
    7. The Importance of Clinic Attendance in the First Six Months on Antiretroviral Treatment (ART): Missing Medical Visits Increases Mortality
    8. Association between Missed Early Visits and Survival among Patients of China National Free Antiretroviral Treatment Cohort
    9. The Net Cost of Incorporating Resistance Testing into HIV Treatment in South Africa
    10. Is Tenofovir (TDF) Affordable in Developing Countries? A South African Perspective of the Economic and Budgetary Impacts


  114. Treatment and Retention in Resource-limited Countries

    1. Missed Opportunities for HIV Testing and Late Diagnosis Among HIV Infected Patients in Uganda
    2. A Lost Opportunity: Most VCT Patients Who Test Positive for HIV in a Large South African Clinic do not Initiate HIV Care
    3. Adult Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource Limited Settings: A Aystematic Review of First-line Treatment Failure and Attrition Rates
    4. Scale-up of and Retention in PEPFAR-supported HIV ART among Government, Non-Government and Private Clinics, South Africa, 2005 to 2009
    5. Frequent Regimen Switches Due to Inconsistent Drug Supply among HIV-infected Patients Starting ART in a Rural Ugandan University-based Clinic
    6. What Happens to Patients Lost to Follow-up from ART Programs?: Evidence from the Themba Lethu Clinic, South Africa
    7. Cash Transfers to Cover Clinic Transportation Costs Improve Retention in Care in a HIV Treatment Program in Rural Uganda
    8. Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy Programme Size on Loss to Follow-up: Analysis of the IEDEA-SA Collaboration
    9. How Do Different Approaches to Estimating Loss-To-Follow-Up Impact on Patient Outcomes on Antiretroviral Therapy? – A Case-Study from the IeDEA-SA Collaboration
    10. An Empirical Approach to Defining Loss to Follow-Up among Patients Enrolled in Antiretroviral Treatment Programs


  115. Malnutrition and Nutritional Supplementation: Outcomes

    1. Oral Candidiasis and Malnutrition in HIV+ Patients prior to HAART Initiation in a South African Urban Cohort
    2. Nutritional Status Change from Baseline after 3 Months of ARV Therapy is Strongly Associated with Mortality among HIV Patients in Tanzania
    3. Food Insecurity, Competing Demands, and Health Care Utilization among HIV-Infected Persons Accessing Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Rural Uganda
    4. A High-energy, Micronutrient-fortified Supplement Is Effective for Reducing Nutritional Depletion among HIV-infected, Breastfeeding Women: The Breastfeeding, Antiretrovirals, and Nutrition Study
    5. Interface of HIV, Nutritional Supplementation, and Breastfeeding: Findings from a Perinatal HIV Prevention Trial in Kampala, Uganda


  116. Survival of HIV-infected Children in Africa

    1. Survival of Children HIV-infected Perinatally or Through Breastfeeding: a Pooled Analysis of Individual Data from Sub-Saharan Africa
    2. Morbidity and Mortality among Infants Born to HIV-infected Women in South Africa: Iimplications for Child Health in Resource-limited Settings


  117. Response to First-line ART in Children

    1. Validation of Utility of the WHO (2006) Clinical Criteria for ‘Presumptive Diagnosis’ of Severe HIV Disease in Infants and Children Under 18 Months Requiring ART in Situations Where Virologic Testing is not Available
    2. Virological and Immunological Responses in Infants Receiving a Lopinavir/Ritonavir (LPV/r)-based Regimen
    3. Impact of TB Co-infection on Viral Suppression Rates in HIV-infected Children
    4. Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome Related Mortality in HIV-infected Children Admitted After Initiating ART in Uganda
    5. Outpatient Nutritional Recovery in HIV-Infected Children with Acute Malnutrition in the Era of HAART
    6. Persistence of Stunting After Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) in HIV-infected Children in South India
    7. Growth Response to ART in HIV-infected Children From Lilongwe, Malawi


  118. HIV Drug Resistance after Treatment Failure in Children

    1. Incidence of Early Virological Failure and the Evolution of Antiretroviral Drug (ARV) Resistance Mutations in Ugandan Children
    2. Antiretroviral Drug Resistance Mutations in HIV-1-infected Ugandan Children Perinatally Exposed to Single-dose Nevirapine following Virologic Failure to an NNRTI-based Regimen
    3. The Prevelence of Darunavir Associated Mutations in PI-naive and PI-experienced HIV-1 Infected Children in the UK


  119. Screening for HIV and TB Co-infection in Adolescents

    1. Use of Time-Location Sampling for HIV Surveillance in Street Youth
    2. Burden of Vertically-Acquired HIV Infection and Acceptability of Provider-Initiated HIV Counselling and Testing in a Country with an Early and Severe HIV Epidemic
    3. High Prevalence of TB and HIV Infection in Adolescents in a South African Community


  120. HIV-related Complications and Co-infections in Children

    1. Hospitalization Rates, Reasons, and Risks Among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Infants in Pune, India
    2. Causes of Hospitalization ifor HIV+ Children: Comparison of the Pre-PCP Prophylaxis, Pre-ART, and ART Era
    3. Prevalence of Hepatitis Coinfection among HIV-Infected Nigerian Children in the Harvard PEPFAR ART Program
    4. Efficacy of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Prophylaxis against Malaria in HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children until 2 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial
    5. Trends in incidence of AIDS-defining and Non-AIDS-defining cancer among HIV-infected children in the United States, 1984 to 2006


  121. Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children

    1. Association Between HIV Infection, ARV Use and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes among Children Aged 0 to 14 Years In Rural Uganda
    2. The Long-term Impact of HIV Disease Severity on Cognitive and Adaptive Functioning During Childhood and Adolescence
    3. Association of Vascular Biomarkers with Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children with Perinatally Acquired HIV Infection


  122. Metabolic Complications and Toxicities in Children

    1. Heightened Inflammation is Linked to Carotid Intima-Media Thickness (cIMT) and Endothelial Activation in HIV-Infected Children
    2. High Rate of Coronary Artery Abnormalities in Adolescents and Young Adults Infected with HIV Early in Life
    3. 2-Year Evolution of Triglycerides and Cholesterol in Thai HIV-1-infected Children Receiving First-line NVP or Efavirenz EFV-based Regimen
    4. Insulin Resistance and Other Metabolic Abnormalities in a Cohort of HIV-1 Vertically Infected Latin American Children: The NISDI PLACES Protocol
    5. Effect of Lopinavir/Ritonavir on Lipids in HIV-infected Children
    6. Differences in Body Fat Distribution in HIV-infected vs HIV-uninfected Children
    7. Lipodystrophy among Children on HAART at the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Clinic, Mulago Hospital
    8. Renal Safety of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy including Tenofovir in Vertically HIV-Infected Youths: a 60-Months Longitudinal Study
    9. Safety of HAART including Tenofovir on Bone Health in Vertically HIV-infected Youths: A 60-Month Longitudinal Study


  123. ART Pharmacokinetics, Safety, and Efficacy in Children

    1. A Pharmacokinetic Comparison of Adult and Pediatric Formulations of RAL in Healthy Adults
    2. Pharmacokinetic (PK), Safety, and Efficacy Data on Cohort IIA; Youth Aged 6 to 11 Years from IMPAACT P1066: A Phase I/II Study to Evaluate Raltegravir (RAL) in HIV-1 Infected Youth
    3. Pharmacokinetics and Safety of Once-Daily Elvitegravir in HIV-infected Adolescents
    4. A Pharmacokinetic Study of Ritonavir-Boosted Saquinavir in HIV-Infected Children 4 Months to <6 Years Old
    5. Long-term (>180 weeks) Efficacy and Safety of Fosamprenavir in HIV-Infected Pediatric Patients in Clinical Practice
    6. Pharmacokinetics of Lopinavir/Ritonavir Crushed vs Whole Tablets in Children
    7. Pharmacokinetics of Efavirenz Dosed According to the WHO Weight-bands in Children in Uganda
    8. Safety and Efficacy of NRTI-only Antiretroviral Regimens (NOAR) in HIV-infected Children


  124. Response to Protective Vaccines in Children

    1. Persistence of Protective Antibody to Hepatitis B, Japanese Encephalitis, Measles, Mumps, and Rubella up to 3 years After Revaccination in HIV-infected Children with Immune Recovery a
    2. 28- and 72-week Immunogenicity of One Dose vs Two Doses of Quadrivalent Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine in HIV-infected Youth
    3. Anti-Influenza Serum and Mucosal Antibody Responses After Administration of Live Attenuated or Inactivated Influenza Vaccines to HIV-Infected Children


  125. Immune Response to Perinatal HIV Infection

    1. http://www.retroconference.org/AbstractSearch/Default.aspx?Conf=19&Abs=37618
    2. Decreased Dendritic Cell Function and Altered Immune Activation in HIV+Pediatric Patients in Chennai, India- A Prospective Study
    3. Immunological Factors Associated With Long-Term Non-Progressive HIV-1 Infection in Childhood


  126. Impact of ART on Disease Pathogenesis in Children

    1. CD4 T Cell Depletion, and Not Age, May Be a Driver of Abnormal CD4 Cell Compartments in HIV-infected Children Initiating ART in Uganda
    2. Antiretroviral Treatment Within 12 Weeks of Age Is Associated with Induction of IL-7 Production, Boosted Naïve T cell Frequency and Lower Immune Activation
    3. HIV-1 Viremia or Delayed ART Initiation Associate with Increased LPS Plasma Levels in Perinatally Infected Infants
    4. Associations of Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Levels with Lipid Profiles, Growth, and Body Composition in HIV-infected Children Initiating or Changing Antiretroviral Therapy
    5. Immunologic and Viral Dynamics Among HIV-infected Children After Planned Treatment Interruption: a Substudy of the Pediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA) 11 Trial


  127. Diagnostics for HIV Infection in Exposed Infants

    1. A Point-of-Care DNA PCR Test for Infants
    2. Evaluation of a Carbon Nanoparticle-based Rapid p24 Assay for the Diagnosis of HIV in Infants: Results from Cape Town


  128. Factors Influencing PMTCT Implementation

    1. Missed Opportunities in Uptake of PMTCT of HIV Interventions; Are Health Systems Failing HIV-infected Mothers?
    2. Non-disclosure of Maternal HIV Status to the Father during Pregnancy: Risk Factors and Consequences


  129. Antiretroviral Regimens, Viral Response, and MTCT Outcomes

    1. Pregnancy Outcomes in HIV-infected Women Using Non-Zidovudine HAART in Europe: 2000 to 2009
    2. When Should HAART Be Initiated in Pregnancy to Achieve an Undetectable Viral Load?
    3. Factors Associated with Viral Load Control and Its Impact on HIV Vertical Trasmission Rates in HIV+ Pregnant Women from Rio De Janeiro during the HAART Era
    4. Impact of Exposure to ART for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission on the Efficacy of PI-based ART in a Subsequent Pregnancy: The French ANRS EPF Cohort


  130. TB Screening and Impact in PMTCT

    1. Maternal TB Is Associated with Increased Risk of HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission
    2. Provider-Initiated Screening for TB among Pregnant Women in Antenatal Clinics in Soweto, South Africa


  131. Breast Milk Shedding of HIV and ART Impact

    1. Breast Milk Exposure to HIV through Compartmentalized Viral Shedding as a Cause of Postnatal Infection
    2. Effect on Cell-free and Cell-associated Breast Milk Virus of NNRTI-based and PI-based Regimens Administered to HIV-infected Women for the Prevention of Breastfeeding-associated Transmission


  132. New Insights into Molecular Mechanisms of MTCT

    1. Elevated Placental Cytokines Levels Are Associated with in Utero HIV-1 MTCT
    2. Innate Inhibitory Activity of Amniotic Fluid against HIV-1: A Potential Role in Prevention of in Utero Transmission
    3. IL-10-1082-G/A Promoter Variant Alters HIV-1 Mother-to-Child-Transmission in African Mother-Infant Pairs Exposed to Zidovudine at Delivery


  133. ART Pharmacokinetics and Safety during Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

    1. Pharmacokinetics of Lopinavir Boosted with Ritonavir (400/100 mg, Twice Daily) Initiated during the Third Trimester of Pregnancy in HIV-1-infected Thai Women
    2. Steady State Pharmacokinetic of Ritonavir-boosted Atazanavir in 31 Pregnant Women before and after Delivery
    3. Boosted Fosamprenavir Pharmacokinetics during Pregnancy
    4. Tolerance and Viral Resistance after sdNVP and Short-course TDF/FTC)in Delivering Women and Neonates to Prevent MTCT of HIV-1: The TEmAA ANRS 12109 Trial, Step 2
    5. Impact of Systemic and Mucosal NVP Levels on Serial HIV RNA Levels in Maternal Plasma and Breast Milk after Perinatal sdNVP
    6. Population Pharmacokinetics of Nevirapine in HIV-1-infected Pregnant Women and Their Neonates: TEmAA ANRS 12109


  134. Persistence of Resistance and Treatment Outcomes in Women after Single-dose Nevirapine

    1. Greater Persistence of Drug Resistance Mutations in HIV-1 Subtype C than Other Subtypes among Women Exposed to sdNVP for the PMTCT
    2. Emergence and Persistence of Nevirapine-resistant HIV in Breast Milk after Single-dose Nevirapine Administration
    3. Long-term Clinical Outcomes on ART among Women with Prior Exposure to Intrapartum Nevirapine
    4. Virological Failure Rates among Women Exposed to sdNVP Compared to Women not Exposed to sdNVP: Results from CIPRA-SA
    5. NVP Resistance Mutations among Women Exposed to a sdNVP Intrapartum More than 1 Year Prior to Starting NNRTI-based ART Are not Associated with Virologic Failure


  135. HIV Drug Resistance in Breastfeeding Infants Exposed to ART

    1. Transmission of NVP-resistant HIV-1 to Infants by Breastfeeding Observed after Maternal sdNVP
    2. Comparison of NVP Resistance among HIV-infected Infants Who Received Extended NVP plus ZDV Prophylaxis vs Extended NVP Prophylaxis Alone: The PEPI-Malawi Study
    3. Delayed Clearance of High-frequency NVP-resistant Viremia in the First Year of Life in HIV-infected Infants Who Received Extended NVP for Prevention of Breast-milk Transmission: Implications for Early Therapy
    4. Multi-class Drug Resistance Arises Frequently in HIV-infected Breastfeeding Infants Whose Mothers Initiate HAART Postpartum


  136. Infant Outcome after Prenatal ART Exposure

    1. Prenatal Exposure to Antiretrovirals among HIV-exposed but Uninfected Children: Surveillance Monitoring for ART Toxicities Study
    2. Pregnancy, Efavirenz, and Birth Outcomes in Johannesburg
    3. Prevalence of Congenital Anomalies in Infants with in Utero Exposure to Antiretrovirals: IMPAACT P1025
    4. Outcomes in Infants Born to HIV-infected Mothers Receiving Long-term ART in the DART Trial, 2004 to 2009
    5. Tenofovir Therapy during Pregnancy Does not Affect Renal Function in HIV-exposed Children
    6. Exposure during Gestation to HAART, Including Tenofovir, Does Not Impair Bone Status and Metabolism in HIV- Children Born to HIV+ Mothers
    7. Increased Risk of Severe but Reversible Anemia following Perinatal Exposure to Maternal HAART in Infants in Botswana
    8. Impact of HAART and Short-course Zidovudine on Longitudinal Growth of HIV-exposed Uninfected Breastfed Infants, Botswana
    9. Mode of Delivery and Neonatal Respiratory Morbidity among HIV-exposed Infants from Latin America and the Caribbean: The NISDI Perinatal Study


  137. ART Outcomes among Women

    1. The Effect of Low Sexual-Relationship Power on Viral Load Suppression among Women Receiving ART in Mbarara, Uganda
    2. A Simple Screening Question about Recent Trauma Predicts HIV-related Health Outcomes and Transmission Risk Behavior among HIV+ Women and Female-identified Transgenders


  138. Contraception Use and Drug Interactions

    1. Use of Contraception among HIV-infected Women of Reproductive Age in Northern California
    2. Effect of the Levonorgestrel Intrauterine Device on Endocervical and Cervico-Vaginal HIV RNA Shedding among HIV-infected Kenyan Women
    3. Pharmacokinetic Interactions between the Hormonal Emergency Contraception, Levonorgestrel, and Efavirenz


  139. Improving Estimates of HIV-1 Incidence

    1. Improved Precision of Cross-Sectional HIV Incidence Testing Using a Multi-assay Algorithm that Includes BED and an Avidity Assay with Modified Assay Cut-offs
    2. Development of a Bead-based, Multiplex Assay for Estimation of Recent HIV-1 Infection
    3. Antibody Avidity-based Assay for Identifying Recent HIV-1 Infections Based on Genetic Systems TM ½ plus O EIA
    4. Concordance of Recent HIV Infection between 3 STARHS Assays Is Not Dependent on Patient Characteristics
    5. Performance of BED-CEIA and Avidity Index Assays in a Sample of ART-naïve, Female Sex Workers in Kigali, Rwanda


  140. New HIV-1 RNA Assays and Reagents

    1. Evaluation of Extraction-Quantification Systems COBAS® AmpliPrep/COBAS® TaqMan® HIV-1 Test, Version 2.0 versus M2000SP/Abbott RealTime® HIV-1 in HIV-1 Group M Subtypes B and Non-B, Group O, and Group P Samples
    2. Evaluation of the New Roche Cobas Taqman Version 2.0 Quantitative HIV-1 RNA Real-time PCR
    3. Large-scale Comparison of Roche COBAS Ampliprep/COBAS TaqMan and Abbott RealTime HIV Assays
    4. Development of a HIV-1 Viral Load Proficiency Test Panel Using Dried Tube Spots
    5. Beyond B: HIV-1 Viral Load Multi-assay Comparison in a Cohort of Canadian Patients with Diverse HIV Subtype Infections


  141. New Diagnostic Technologies

    1. Rapid Extraction and Amplification of HIV-1 DNA from Whole Blood Using a Disposable Microfluidics Device
    2. Multiplexed Point-of-Care System for HIV and Co-infection Serodiagnosis
    3. Encouraging Point-of-Care PIMA CD4 Testing Performance in a Laboratory Setting: Johannesburg, South Africa


  142. Preclinical and Animal Studies of Microbicides/PrEP

    1. L’644, a Cholesterol Derivatized Version of the gp41 Fusion Peptide C34, Provides Superior Activity in Preclinical Microbicide Assays
    2. Tenofovir Gel Protects Macaques Against SHIV Exposures Three Days after Vaginal Application
    3. SHIV-specific T Cell Responses During Successful PrEP and Following Infection During PrEP
    4. C5A Prevents the Disruption of the Genital Epithelial Barrier by Herpes Simplex Virus


  143. New Insights on Male Circumcision

    1. Acceptability of Male Circumcision Among Adolescent Boys and Their Parents/Guardians in Two Villages in Botswana
    2. A Comparison of Self-reported and Physical Examination Based Male Circumcision Prevalence Rates in Lesotho
    3. Bayesian Monitoring of the Randomized Trial of Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in Rakai, Uganda: Statistical Alternatives and Public Health Implications
    4. Associations Between Male Circumcision and HIV Serostatus in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort (MACS)


  144. Insights into Post-exposure Prophylaxis

    1. An Open Randomized Multicenter Clinical Trial Comparing Zidovudine/Lamivudine (ZDV/3TC) Plus Lopinavir/r (LPV/r) or Plus Atazanavir (ATV) Used as Postexposure Prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV Infection
    2. Use and Sharing of Antiretroviral Medications for Pre- and Post-exposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Sexual Transmission of HIV Among High-risk, Substance-using Men Who Have Sex With Men in Four US Cities
    3. Characteristics of and HIV Seroconversion Among Patients Receiving Non-Occupational HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis in a Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic - San Francisco, 2007 to 2009


  145. New HIV Prevention Strategies and Modeling of Impact

    1. Demographic, Behavioral, and Clinical Characteristics of HIV-1 Serodiscordant Couples Enrolled into an Efficacy Trial of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
    2. HIV Partner Notification is Feasible in Sub-Saharan Africa with a High Yield of Newly Diagnosed HIV Infection
    3. Declines in Partners Exposed to Risk of HIV Infection: the CDC Prevention in Care Settings (PICS) Study
    4. Cost-effectiveness of Early Use of Antiretrovirals for Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection
    5. The Potential Impact of Recent Infections, HIV Testing and Start of Antiretroviral Drugs at a CD4 of <350 on the HIV Epidemic in a Rural Area in Zambia: a Mathematical Model
    6. Test and Treat: Forecasting the Clinical and Epidemiological Impact of Expanded HIV Screening and Immediate ART in Sub-Saharan Africa
    7. Economic Analysis of ART for Prevention of HIV Transmission in a South African Generalized HIV Epidemic Setting
    8. A “Test and Treat” Strategy In South Africa Is Likely to Lead to a Self-sustaining Epidemic Composed of Only NNRTI-resistant Strains


  146. Risk Behaviors for HIV Infection

    1. Determinants of Unprotected Sexual Contacts in HIV-infected Persons: The Swiss HIV Cohort Study
    2. Concurrent Partnerships, Non-Monogamous Partners, and Substance Use Among Women in the United States
    3. Bridging the Epidemic: HIV in Clients and Sex Partners of Female Sex Workers in Kampala, Uganda
    4. Epidemiologic Characteristics Associated with HIV-1 Transmission Linkage among Serodiscordant Couples in an HIV-1 Prevention Clinical Trial
    5. A Comparison of Sexual Behavior Patterns among Heterosexual Men and Women and Men Who Have Sex with Men
    6. High HIV Prevalence Despite Lower Rates of Sexual Risk Behaviors Among MSM of Color in Washington, DC
    7. Risk Behavior and HIV Prevalence among MSM in a Predominantly Muslim and Multi-Ethnic Society: A Venue-Based Study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    8. Behavior Change in Year following Diagnosis with Recent HIV-infection among Southern California Men Who Have Sex With Men
    9. Sexual Behavior of HIV-positive Persons Before and After One Year of Antiretroviral Therapy at the Infectious Diseases Clinic, Kampala, Uganda
    10. The Intersection between Sex and Drugs: HIV Prevalence Among Sexual Partners of IDU in Chennai, India
    11. A Randomized Trial Comparing On-Site Treatment with Buprenorphine/Naloxone vs Referral to an Opioid Treatment Program for Opioid-Dependent Patients in an Urban HIV Clinic


  147. HIV Disease Progression

    1. Longitudinal CD4 Cell Count Evolution During HIV Natural History: Comparison between European and Sub-Saharan African Seroconverter Cohorts
    2. Differences in Time to AIDS and Death Following HIV Seroconversion According to Geographical Origin
    3. Are HIV-Infected Persons Progressing Faster After HIV Diagnosis Over the Epidemic?
    4. Heterogeneous Immuno-Virological Outcomes in the 81 Patients Enrolled in the ANRS HIV Controllers National Observatory
    5. Late Presentation for HIV Care in the United States and Canada
    6. CD4 at HAART Initiation Predicts Long Term CD4 Responses and Mortality from AIDS and non-AIDS Causes in the HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS)


  148. Identifying Persons at Risk for HIV Infection

    1. Temporal Trends in Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Among African American and White Adults in the General Social Survey, 1973 to 2008
    2. Phylogenetic Analysis Shows Insularity with Respect to HIV Transmission of Young Black Men in Mississippi Who Have Sex with Men
    3. Risk Determinants of Men-Who-Have-Sex-With-Men (MSM) Transmission Cascades
    4. Spatial Clustering of HIV Prevalence in Atlanta, Georgia, and Population Characteristics Associated with Case Concentrations
    5. Transmission Clusters within Non-B Subtype HIV-1 Infections in the London Area
    6. Psychological and Smoking Characteristics of Patients at Two Large HIV Clinics: Implications for Smoking Cessation Interventions for HIV+ Smokers
    7. Characteristics of Foreign-Born Persons Diagnosed with HIV in the US, 2002 to 2007
    8. Recent Increase in the Incidence of HIV Infection in France


  149. Identifying HIV Incidence

    1. Measurement of HIV incidence Among Adults in Kenya and Uganda: A Systematic Comparison of Multiple Methods
    2. Comparison between Methods to Estimate HIV Incidence Using Serological and Survey Data Collected in Cross-Sectional Studies in St. Petersburg, Russia
    3. Initial Viral Load after Recent HIV Infection Determined By BED Assay: Michigan
    4. Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Universal Acute HIV Screening in the United States


  150. ART and Transmission

    1. The Effect of Expanded Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) Strategies on the MSM HIV Epidemic in San Francisco
    2. Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy Eliminates HIV Epidemics in a Network Model of an Injecting Drug User Community
    3. Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) as a Strategy for Reduction of HIV-1 Transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa: Survival and Virus Load Parameters from the Drug Resource Enhancement Against AIDS and Malnutrition (DREAM) Program
    4. Comparative Effectiveness of HIV Testing and Treatment in Highly Endemic Regions
    5. Estimating the Rate of HIV Transmission by Men on Treatment
    6. Estimation of the Proportion of New HIV Cases among Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) Transmitted from Persons in Different Stages of HIV Infection, Diagnosis, and Treatment


  151. Identifying HIV Infection

    1. Rapid HIV Screening: Missed Opportunities for Diagnosis and Prevention
    2. HIV Rapid Testing of Previously Untested Sexual Partners of HIV-negative Women Delivering at a Large Public Hospital- a Case Finding Strategy
    3. Results from a Multimedia Testing and Counseling Program in an Urban Emergency Department
    4. The Men’s Sexual Health Project (M*SHP): Targeted Screening for Acute and Recent HIV Infection in a Population of Highly Sexually Active Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) Attending Commercial Sex Venues, Events, and Parties (CSVEP) in New York City (NYC)
    5. Opt-Out HIV Testing on Prison Entry Increases the Proportion of Individuals Screened for HIV and the Number Testing Seropositive
    6. High HIV Risk, Non-IDU Heterosexuals: Can We Find Them Using a Place-Based Methodology?
    7. Impact of Anticipated and Actual HIV Status of TB Evaluation Patients on Referral and Acceptance of Household Testing in Kampala, Uganda
    8. Routine HIV Testing of Family Members of Hospitalized Patients in Nigeria: a Novel Approach for Scale-up of HIV Testing Services


  152. Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and HIV in Resource-limited Countries

    1. Depression and HIV in Botswana: a Population-based Study on Gender-specific Socioeconomic and Behavioral Correlates
    2. Depression Symptom Severity Is Associated with Missed Doses, Treatment Interruptions, and Viral Failure among HIV+ ART-treated Individuals in Rural Uganda
    3. Gendered Effects of Food Insecurity on Depression among HIV-Infected Persons Accessing Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) in Rural Uganda
    4. Hazardous Alcohol Use and Depression: Impact on Treatment Adherence in Nigeria
    5. Density of Registered and Unregistered Shebeens and HIV Prevalence in a Migrant Town, Namibia, 2005 to 2009


  153. HPV and HIV

    1. Safety and Immunogenicity of the Quadrivalent HPV Vaccine (qHPV) in HIV-Infected Men: Primary Results of AIDS Malignancy Consortium Trial 052
    2. A Randomized Trial of Male Circumcision and High Risk Human Papillomavirus in HIV-infected and Uninfected Men
    3. Oral Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Infection Among HIV-infected Men Who Have Sex with Men
    4. Incidence and Predictors of Abnormal Anal Cytology in the Study to Understand the Natural History of HIV/AIDS in the Era of Effective Therapy (SUN)
    5. High-Risk HPV Prevalence by HIV-1 Status in Spanish Men Who Had Sex with Men (MSM) in an Out Patient Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic and in a prospective cohort of HIV-positive MSM and women belonging to Spanish Multicenter Cohort (CoRIS)
    6. Association of HIV Viral Load and CD4 with HPV Infection and Clearance in HIV-infected Women Initiating HAART


  154. HIV and STD

    1. High Proportion of New HIV Diagnoses Among Patients Presenting with Syphilis
    2. High Prevalence of Asymptomatic Sexually Transmitted Infections in HIV-Positive MSM, Visiting HIV Outpatient Clinics in the Netherlands
    3. A Prospective Study of Vaginal Trichomoniasis and HIV-1 Shedding in Women on ART
    4. Anal Sex, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and HIV Incidence in Female Sex Workers in Urban Kenya

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