DC CFAR investigator, Natella Rakhmanina, MD, PhD from Children's National was recently awarded an R13 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to convene an International Workshop on HIV & Women just prior to the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Illnesses (CROI) in Seattle, WA.
The workshop was organized to address the specific and unmet needs of women whose lives are affected by HIV. Researchers, caregivers, health professionals, experts working in the field and women living with HIV in attendance to shared their perspectives and knowledge through plenary sessions, oral abstract presentations, panel discussions and a poster session.