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17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
CROI 2010 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
Moscone Center West
San Francisco, CA
February 16-19, 2010

HIV and the Brain: Part 2

March 9, 2010

By David Evans

At the 17th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco—David Evans speaks with Scott Letendre, MD, from the University of California in San Diego, about the relationship of HIV levels in the brain versus the blood, and what that might mean for treating HIV.

 


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