Highlights from the 2016 International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases (ISHEID)

Abstract

For three days in May 2016, the International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases gathered participants from all over the world around the theme ‘Fighting deadly viruses’. HIV infection remained the main topic of the meeting but hepatitis, Ebola and Zika viruses as well as other emergent pathogens were also extensively covered. In this article we have tried to summarise what was presented during the plenary lectures, the two keynote lectures, and some of the work accepted for oral presentation. However, all abstracts can be found on the Journal of Virus Eradication website (viruseradication.com/abstract.php)

Keywords

• HIV
• HIV cure
• HIV vaccine
• hepatitis C
• hepatitis B
• hepatitis E