Striving towards HIV prevention. Mircobicides 2008

24/02 to 27/02/2008

  • Country: India
  • City: New Delhi
  • Venue: Hotel Ashok

The biannual international Microbicides 2008 Conference would be held at New Delhi - the historical and beautiful national capital of India- from Sunday February 24th to Wednesday 27th, 2008. It is for the first time that the meeting would be held in the Asian region. The earlier meetings were held at Washington DC in 2000, Antwerp in 2002, London in 2004, and Cape Town in 2006.

There are more than 5.0 million cases of HIV in India. The prevalence rate of HIV amongst 15 - 49 years age group is 0.9 % and a mere 0.1 % increase in the HIV prevalence would result in addition of 0.5 millions new cases. The use of current HIV controlled methods such as abstinence, monogamy and condoms – males / females, are not always feasible. Therefore, there is an urgent need to have other HIV prevention technologies which are women initiated methods.

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