About the conference

5th Netherlands Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment

Tuesday 29 November 2011, The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Amsterdam

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About the Conference

Aim of NCHIV

The Netherlands Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Prevention and Treatment, NCHIV, is a scientifically focused meeting. The aim of the conference is to review and share knowledge on the current status and new developments in understanding HIV pathogenesis, vaccine research and treatment. In addition, the conference aims to be a discussion platform for changes in the HIV epidemic in the Netherlands and to provide input for HIV public health and health care policy issues from a research perspective.

Who is it for?

Senior and junior biomedical scientists in HIV/AIDS, HIV treating physicians, pharmacologists, infectious disease epidemiologists, (medical) microbiologists and HIV nurses are invited to attend NCHIV 2011.

Organising Committee

The following organisations participate in the organisation of the NCHIV:

The Stichting HIV Monitoring (SHM) (the Dutch HIV monitoring foundation)
AIDS Fonds (The Dutch AIDS Fund)
The Academisch Medisch Centrum (AMC) bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) (Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam)
- Laboratory of Viral Immune Pathogenesis of the department Experimental Immunology
- Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD)
- Centre for Poverty-related Communicable Diseases (CPCD)
Centrum Infectieziektebestrijding (CIb) Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) (Centre of Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment)
Stichting Sanquin Bloedvoorziening (Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation)
Nederlandse Vereniging van AIDS Behandelaren (NVAB) (Dutch Association of Physicians in AIDS)

The Organising Committee members include:

Prof. dr. Frank de Wolf, Stichting HIV Monitoring
Drs. Ton Coenen, Aids Fonds
Prof. dr. Hanneke Schuitemaker, LVIP, AMC, UvA
Prof. dr. Joep M. Lange, AIGHD, CPCD, AMC, UvA
Prof. dr. Roel Coutinho, CIb, RIVM
Dr. Suzanne Geerlings, NVAB

NCHIV Conference Organisers:

Danielle de Boer, Stichting HIV Monitoring

Louise Dolfing, Stichting HIV Monitoring