16th National Conference of the AIDS Society of India (ASICON)

16th National Conference of the AIDS Society of India (ASICON) is organized by Meetings and More and will be held from Feb 21 - 23, 2025 at Taj Skyline, Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Topics

• HIV Virology: Distribution, Diversity
• Immunology and Pathogenesis of HIV
• Strategies for early HIV detection including Early Infant Diagnosis (EID)
• 95-95-95: Where are we?
• Exceptions for Where Test and Treat strategy
• Same Day ART start
• Pre exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), including Lenacapavir
• Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP), DoxiPEP
• Landmark studies in HIV and Implications for India
• HIV in Women
• HIV in Newborn, Children, & Adolescents- Challenges
• Diagnostic Technologies, Issues and Monitoring Tools
• Point of Care Tests (POCT)
• HIV Self Testing (HIVST)
• Role of CD4 in Test and Treat era
• Role of Imaging in HIV and Emerging Infections
• Latest trends in Drug Resistance
• HIV drug-drug interaction and adverse effects
• Biomedical Prevention
• Preventive and Therapeutic HIV Vaccines
• Reproductive options in couple settings
• Controversies in HIV management
• Newer ARVs
• Cure Research / strategies
• Broadly Neutralising Antibodies (bNABs)
• Non-AIDS Defining Diseases
• Tuberculosis and HIV
• Co-infections and Co-morbidities
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
• HIV and STDs
• Malignancies in HIV
• Medico-Legal Issues, Ethics and Laws
• Lesson from other emerging economies in the fight against HIV
• Impact of India on the global fight against HIV
• Debates on Emergent Topic
• Post-Covid and Long Covid, Covid Vaccines
• Chasing Viruses – Nipah, Zika, Mpox and other viral infections
• Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Climate change and emerging ID
• Newer fungal infection
• Viral Hepatitis
• Role of adult vaccination
• Integrated services versus stand-alone services
• Artificial Intelligence