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Improving AIDS conferences with online information.

Publication: AIDS Treatment News
Publication Date: 27-FEB-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The Retroviruses conference still has policy and technical barriers that impede effective communication among scientific colleagues, and with the public. (1) This article will focus not on the problems, however, but on opportunities for all such conferences to better meet participants' needs...

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...by improving information flow. Business and political considerations will be addressed in later issues of AIDS Treatment News.

Good presentation is an important issue, since critical opportunities are lost if researchers who should know about relevant developments outside of their field do not find out about them. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on medical research, and part of the benefit is wasted if the results are not reported well.

After following AIDS conferences for almost 15 years, I believe that the most important single improvement would be to provide an online forum for the primary presentation of new results. Then the conference itself could move toward discussion among those interested in any of dozens or hundreds of different topics,...

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