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A review of HIV prevention research for developing countries: Report of a meeting held in London, UK, on 4 November 2008

At the invitation of Gareth Thomas MP, Minister of State for the Department for International Development, a group of experts met at Somerset House in London on 4 November 2008 to agree on the best way forward for developing new biomedical prevention tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

   from left to right, Sir Gordon Conway (DFID Chief Scientific Adviser) and Gareth Thomas (Joint Minister of State DFID/BERR)
     

Nonkhosi Khumalo (Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa)More than 100 scientists, researchers, activists and industry representatives gathered to hear the Minister of State announce a new UK £220 million fund over five years for R&D on prevention technologies for diseases primarily affecting the poor, such as HIV, TB and malaria.

 

 

from left to right, David Coles (European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership), Anatoli Kamali (Medical Research Council, Uganda) and Sheena McCormack (Medical Research Council, Clinical Trials Unit)Various speakers gave presentations which outlined different aspects  of the HIV/AIDS problem.


 

 


A final report of the event was issued in conjunction with a DFID Press Release.

Important documents from meeting: