Summary: Hello this is Dr. Eric Daar calling from Denver, Colorado from the 13th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections or CROI 2006. Last day of conference (February 8th). It has been an extremely exciting day with some very important presentations in the area of complications of antiretroviral therapy and new treatments. The first presentation was from the CDC describing the experience in Uganda in over a thousand individuals started on antiretroviral therapy for the first time. There has been a major rollout of therapy in the developing world and this one with another report, were one of the largest to describe the tolerability of such therapy. This looked at over 1,000 individuals from 2003-2004 started on standard first line regimen in the developing world.
