The 5th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV Therapy

Abstract

The 5^th International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV Therapy was held at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy on April 1 – 3, 2004. More than 180 participants registered for this workshop demonstrating the growing interest in antiretroviral pharmacology. The purpose of this meeting was to present and discuss antiretroviral pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, drug interactions, therapeutic drug monitoring-related research and the assays necessary for measuring antiretroviral concentrations. A total of 31 oral and 48 poster presentations were accepted to this meeting, the largest number of accepted submissions in the 5-year history of this workshop. Herein, examples of the research that was presented are highlighted.

• anti-HIV agents
• drug interactions
• HIV entry inhibitors
• HIV protease inhibitors
• HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors
• pharmacology