Program Supplement [International Conference on AIDS (14th: 2002: Barcelona, Spain)]

Michael S. Saag
Michael S. Saag, MD, is Director of the
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
AIDS Outpatient Clinic and is Professor of
Medicine. He is also the Associate Director
for Clinical Care and Therapeutics at the UAB
AIDS Center. He completed his postdoctoral
fellowship in virology and molecular biology at UAB in 1987,
after receiving his MD from the University of Louisville in 1981.
Dr Saag's research focuses on clinical and basic science of HIV
and he has published extensively in medical journals and
books on that subject. He serves on several state and national
advisory committees, including the Board of Directors of the
International AIDS Society-USA, the American Board of Internal
Medicine Infectious Diseases Subspecialty Board, and the
Executive Committee of the National Institutes of
Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group.
Zackie Achmat
Zackie Achmat lives with HIV/AIDS. Born in
1962, he joined the anti-apartheid movement
in South Africa during the 1976 uprisings. He
was detained and imprisoned on more than
five occasions as a youth activist. Zackie was
a community activist who assisted with the
organization of youth, labor, health and community
organizations between 1977 and 1990. He also campaigned for
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality and was a
founding member of the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian
Equality - the coalition campaigned for the equality clause in
the Constitution, the decriminalization of same-sex practices
and the equal right of lesbian and gay relationships. He is still
an active member of the African National Congress. Zackie was
also director of the AIDS Law Project between 1994-97.
In December 1998, together with io other activists, Zackie
launched the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). Since then,
TAC has become one of the leading HIV/AIDS activist voices in
South Africa - it took a clear stand against drug company
profiteering. At the risk of arrest, Zackie volunteered for TAC's
Defiance Campaign against patent abuse by Pfizer to bring lifesaving treatment for opportunistic infections into South Africa.
TAC also opposed the HIV denialist positions in government
and campaigned for access to AZT/Nevirapine for pregnant
women with HIV/AIDS; this included organizing litigation
against the Minister of Health.
Zackie Achmat has researched, written and directed numerous
TV documentaries. He holds a BA Hons (cum laude) from the
University of Western Cape and at the moment, he is studying
to complete an M.Phil in Law at the University of Cape Town.
Zackie Achmat was also awarded the first Desmond Tutu
Fellowship in October 2001.

Anthony S. Fauci
Anthony S. Fauci, MD, is Director of the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of
Health (NIH), and Chief of the NIAID
Laboratory of Immunoregulation.
In a more than 30-year research career at NIH,
Dr Fauci has made many contributions to basic and clinical
research on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated
diseases. From the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Dr
Fauci's work has illuminated the immune defects caused by HIV,
as well as the mechanisms of induction of H IV expression by
endogenous cytokines. He has been instrumental in developing
strategies for the therapy and immune reconstitution of patients
with HIV/AIDS, and for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection.
Dr. Fauci has received numerous awards and honors, including
23 honorary doctorate degrees from universities in the United
States and abroad. He is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (Council
Member), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters. He also is an
editor of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, and the
author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,ooo scientific
publications, including several other medical textbooks.
Jos6 M Mir6
Jos6 M9 Mir6 was born in Barcelona, Spain in
1956. He received his MD from the University of
Barcelona School of Medicine in 1979. He
completed his residency in Internal Medicine
and in Infectious Diseases at the Hospital Clinic
of Barcelona in 1986, and his PhD on Infective
Endocarditis in IV drug users at the University of Barcelona in
1994. In 1993, he did a six-month postgraduate research
fellowship at the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN, USA). He has been a
Consultant of Infectious Diseases at the Institut Clinic Infeccions
Inmunologia of the Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS of Barcelona, since
2001oo and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of
Barcelona since 1995. He has been Co-Director of the masters
program on AIDS of the University of Barcelona since 1997.
His HIV research fields are focused on infections in IV drug users,
opportunistic infections in AIDS patients, immunological
reconstitution studies with highly active antiretrovirals,
pharmacokinetic interactions, acute HIV infection and immunobased therapies. He has published more than 250 articles in
Spanish and international peer-reviewed journals and he has
presented more than 250 abstracts at Spanish and international
conferences. He has published several Spanish books on AIDS
and has written more than 50 chapters in textbooks on infectious
diseases, AIDS and antimicrobial agents.
Dr. Mir6 is a member of the Spanish Ministry of Health and the
Spanish AIDS Foundation (FlPSE) Committees to evaluate grants
on infectious diseases and HIV. He was a member of the Executive
Committee of the Spanish Society for Infectious Diseases and
Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC)(1991-95). He was Secretary and
President of the Spanish Working Group on AIDS (GESIDA)
(1996-99), and he is AIDS Editor of the Spanish Journal of
Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (2002-05).
XIV International AIDS Conference BARCELONA - JULY 7-12