Abstract
The fatigue team-ANAC members Les Harmon Naima Salahuddin and I-had the great privilege of attending the 17th International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in August. We presented three posters about our work with the HIV-related fatigue study. It was the first time any of us had attended an International AIDS Conference. The first day we were at the conference we felt overwhelmed. There were about 25000 attendees and the venue was enormous. It was difficult trying to decide which sessions we wanted to attend because there was often more than one enticing session offered at the same time. By the end of the day as we shared a cab back to our hotel we would talk about everything we learned and saw. It was simultaneously exhausting and exhilarating. We were so happy to see other ANAC members; anytime we see ANAC members anywhere it is like coming home. We were very proud of the presence ANAC had at the conference. Our favorite area was the Global Village. At the main conference venue all of the scientific talks were conducted and then there was the Global Village- a place for people living with HIV to express themselves through artwork interpretive theater and dance mime and storytelling. Goods made by people with HIV from around the world were also sold there. It almost reminded us of the Thanksgiving adult table (the main conference venue) and table (the Global Village).and the most fun was to be had at the kids table! We thoroughly enjoyed the Global Village and were grateful the conference organizers recognized the need to make the conference about the people affected by HIV not just the presenters. Our other impression was that there seems to be something-some sort of prevention activity some effort to get antiretroviral medications out to those who need them-happening in many many places around the world. Certainly these efforts may not be enough but they are a start. Where there are people of good will great things can happen and we saw that in Mexico City. (full-text)
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