Track A Category List

HIV evolution, viral diversity and bioinformatics

A1. HIV-1/2: Origins, evolution, diversity and response to ARV 

A2. Molecular epidemiology of HIV diversity

A3. Bioinformatic analysis of HIV diversity and drug resistance

Immunology of HIV

A4. Innate immune responses and function in natural history of HIV infection

A5. Humoral immune responses and function in natural history of HIV infection

A6. Cellular immune responses and function in natural history of HIV infection

A7. Immune responses in resistant cohorts: elite controllers and exposed uninfected

Pathogenesis (HIV-1/2)

A8. Viral determinants of HIV pathogenesis

A9. Acute and early HIV infection

Host genetics and HIV infections

A10. Host genetics of resistance and susceptibility and restriction factors

HIV transmission and early infections

A11. Animal models of transmission, disease resistance and progression

A12. HIV transmission (mucosal and mother to child transmission; other transmission)

HIV: Co-infections and emerging pathogens

A13. HIV super-infection

A14. HIV co-infection with TB and other pathogens

A15. HIV interactions with emerging and other opportunistic pathogens

HIV: Drug development and resistance

A16. HIV drug development: Synthetic, traditional and microbicides 

A17. Molecular mechanisms of drug action and antiviral drug resistance and drug interaction

A18. Nucleic acid based HIV and SIV therapies

Vaccine development

A19. Clinical trials in HIV vaccine development  

A20. Animal models for vaccine development

Interaction of micronutrients and HIV infection

A21. Effect of micronutrients in HIV and AIDS pathogenesis, transmission and treatment

A22. Mechanisms of micronutrient and HIV interactions

Rapid diagnostics tools development (for use in resource limited settings)

A23. Novel assays of immune responses in HIV and AIDS and virological monitoring

A24. Rapid and cost-effective HIV screening and diagnostic methods

A25. HIV drug resistance testing