About the Conference and CD

Five domestic institutions funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in collaboration with the NIH Office of AIDS Research conducted a two-day conference consisting of workshops/training sessions in which experts in HIV-treatment research shared their knowledge and lead small groups in workshops designed to better understand the critical steps needed to conduct HIV research of the highest possible caliber in RPCs. The conference was held in Baltimore Maryland on October 20-21, 2003.

This CD contains the presentations and handouts from the Conference. While every effort has been made to gather all documents used, no guarantee can be made that we have not missed a minor handout. Documents are in commonly used formats. For more on the use of this CD click here .

The following are supporting documents:

			Conference Summary
			Faculty List
			Sponsors & Organizing Committee List
			List of Registrants

Links to the workshops are listed in the Table of Contents on the left. On these pages will be found the summary of the workshop (in PDF), the presentation (in PowerPoint), other documents which may have been used, and web links (if applicable).

Instructions for Using this CD

Application Requirements

In order to use the files on this CD you will need the following applications (free document viewers are available for each application, click on the appropriate link below):

			Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 or higher / Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer
			Microsoft Word 2000 or higher / Microsoft Word 97/2000 Viewer
			Adobe Acrobat 3.0 or higher / Adobe Acrobat Reader
			For the web links to operate you will need to have an operational connection to the internet and a web-browser.

Other applications such as more recent versions of WordPerfect or Corel Presentations may be able to open and use some of the files; performance guarantees cannot be made.