ATTENTION HOPES Patients: Northern Nevada HOPES will be closed Tuesday, December 24, and Wednesday, December 25. We’ll resume normal business hours on Thursday, December 26 at 8 am.

ATENCIÓN Pacientes de HOPES: Northern Nevada HOPES estará cerrado el martes 24 de diciembre y el miércoles 25 de diciembre. Reanudaremos nuestro horario habitual el jueves 26 de diciembre a las 8 a.m.

AIDS 2014 conference wrap up

The AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne, Australia ended today. Dr. Carl Dieffenbach from the National Institutes of Health provided a final wrap up of the weeklong convention:

Dr. Dieffenback reflected on the theme of the conference “stepping up the pace” as HIV/AIDS researches focused on preventative efforts to stop the spread of the infection with new drugs like pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

Another idea prevalent at the convention was the need to focus on the “hotspots” of the epidemic in terms of both geography and population to truly bring the number of new infections down to zero.

If you would like to learn more about what happened at AID 2014, check out blog.AIDS.gov.

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