THE DURBAN DECLARATION

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Updated July 3, 2000

Quarraisha Abdool Karim, PhD

Southern African Fogarty AIDS Training Program Co-ordinator

Nell and Shapiro cc

Durban

South Africa

Salim S. Abdool Karim, MBChB, PhD

Director, HIV Prevention and Vaccine Research

Medical Research Council

Durban

South Africa

Alash’le Abimiku, PhD

Assistant Professor

Institute of Human Virology

Baltimore, MD

Nadine Abiola

Assistant Chief, Clinical Biological Laboratory

Project RETRO-CI

Abidjan

Ivory Coast

Georgette Adjorlolo-Johnson, MD, MPH

Projet RETRO-CI/CDC-HIV

Abidjan

Ivory Coast

Michael Adler, CBE, MD, FRCP

Royal Free & University College Medical School

London

UK

Peter Aggleton, PhD

Professor

Director, Thomas Coram Research Unit

Institute of Education

University of London

UK

Simon Agwale, PhD

Institute of Human Virology

Baltimore, MD

USA

Arthur J. Ammann, MD

President

Global Strategies for HIV Prevention

San Rafael, CA

USA

Birgitta Åsjö, MD, PhD

Professor of Virology

University of Bergen

Norway

Laura Astarloa, MD, PhD

Professor

University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Brigitte Autran, MD, PhD

Professor

Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière

Paris, France

Roberto Badaró, MD, PhD

Chief of the Infectious Disease Unit

University Hospital Professor Edgar Santos

Federal University of Bahia

Brazil

David Baltimore, PhD

President

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California

USA

Kanai Banerjee, MD

Professor of Medicine

Calcutta Medical College

Calcutta

India

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, PhD

Research Director, INSERM

Professor, Institut Pasteur

Retroviral Biology Unit

Paris, France

Avertino Barreto, MD, MSc, CHDC

National Director of STD/HIV/AIDS Programme

Deputy National Health Director

Ministry of Health

Maputo

Mozambique

Jorge Barreto, MD

Head, Department of Immunology

National Institute of Health

Maputo

Mozambique

John G. Bartlett, MD

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland

USA

Mary Bassett, MD, MPH

Department of Community Medicine

University of Zimbabwe Medical School

Harare

Zimbabwe

Stefano Bertozzi, MD, PhD

Director, Health Economics Unit

National Institute of Public Health

Cuernavaca, Mexico

Natth Bhamarapravati

Professor

Bangkok

Thailand

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, MD

Professor of Child Health

Department of Paediatrics

The Aga Khan University

Karachi

Pakistan

Stéphane Blanche, MD, PhD

Professor

Groupe Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades

Paris, France

Rosa Bologna, MD

Chair, Argentine Society for Infectious Diseases

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Carlos Brites, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases

Federal University of Bahia

Salvador

Brazil

Mario Bronfman, DPH

Director, Center for Health Systems Research

Mexico

Françoise Brun-Vézinet, MD, PhD

Professor

Groupe Hôspitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard

Paris

France

Arsene Burny, PhD

Professor

University of Brussels

Institute of Biology and Molecular Medicine

Gosselies

Belgium

Pedro Cahn, MD, PhD

Director, Huesped Foundation

Buenos Aires

Argentina

William Cameron, MD, FRCPC

Professor of Medicine

Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Ottawa at the Ottawa Hospital

Canada

Yunzhen Cao, MD

Director, Department of Clinical Virology

Deputy Director

National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control

Professor

Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine

Beijing

China

Jordi Casabona i Barbarà, MD, MPH

Director of CEESCAT

Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol

Badalona, Catalonia

Spain

Euclides Castilho

University of São Paulo

São Paulo

Brazil

Sekhar Chakrabarti, MD

Indian Council for Medical Research

Calcutta

India

Irvin S.Y. Chen, PhD

Professor of MIMG and Medicine

Director, UCLA AIDS Institute

University of California, Los Angeles

USA

Xiaoping Chen, MD, PhD

Director, Associate Professor

Center for AIDS Control and Research

Municipal Health and Anti-Epidemic Station

Guangzhou

China

Hehe Cheng, MD

China

Luigi Chieco-Bianchi, MD

Professor of Oncology

Director, Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences

University of Padova

Italy

Chifumbe Chintu, MD, FRCPC, FRCP

Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health

School of Medicine

University of Zambia

Lusaka

Zambia

John David Chiphangwi, MBChB, MMed, FRCOG

Professor of Medicine

Principal, University of Malawi College of Medicine

Blantyre

Malawi

Inam Chitsike

Zimbabwe

Mario Clerici, MD

Professor

Ordinario di Immunologia

Cattedra di Immunologia

University of Milan

Italy

Thomas J. Coates, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Director

AIDS Research Institute

University of California, San Francisco

USA

John M. Coffin, PhD

Director, HIV Drug Resistance Program

National Cancer Institute

American Cancer Society Research Professor

of Molecular Biology and Microbiology

Tufts University

Boston, MA

USA

Mark Colvin, MD

Medical Research Council

Durban, South Africa

David Cooper, MD, DSc

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research

University of New South Wales

Sydney

Australia

Hoosen M. Coovadia, MD

Professor

University of Natal

Durban

South Africa

Lawrence Corey, MD

Professor, Medicine and Laboratory Medicine

Head, Program in Infectious Diseases

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Head, Virology Division

University of Washington

Seattle

USA

Tumani Corrah, FRCP

Director of Clinical Services

MRC Laboratories

Banjul, The Gambia

Roel A. Coutinho, MD, PhD

Professor

Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases

Academic Medical Center

University of Amsterdam

Director, Municipal Health Service of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Suzanne Crowe, MBBS, FRACP, MD

Professor of Medicine

Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research

Melbourne

Australia

Bryan R. Cullen, PhD

Professor

Departments of Genetics and Microbiology

Investigator

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC

USA

François Dabis, MD, PhD

Unité INSERM 330

Université Victor Segalen

Bordeaux

France

Janet H. Darbyshire, OBE, FRCP

Director, MRC Clinical Trials Unit

London

UK

Patrice Debré, MD

Professor

Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière

Paris

France

Erik De Clercq, MD, PhD

Professor

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Belgium

Carlos del Rio, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine,

Infectious Diseases

Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

USA

Alaka Deshpande, MD

Professor of Medicine

Secretary, AIDS Society of India

Mumbai

India

Ronald C. Desrosiers

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

USA

Christian Devaux, PhD

Director, Department of Immunology and Retrovirology

National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

University of Montpellier

France

Manfred P. Dierich, MD, PhD

Professor and Chairman

Institute for Hygiene and Social Medicine

Innsbruck, Austria

Barbara Ensoli, MD, PhD

Director, Retrovirus Division

Laboratory of Virology

Instituto Superiore di Sanità

Rome, Italy

Volker Erfle

Germany

Eka Esu-Williams

President, Society for Women and AIDS in Africa

Population Council

Johannesburg

South Africa

Oscar Hector Fay

Professor, Clinical Biochemistry

National University of Rosario

Director, Center for Technology in Public Health

Rosario, Argentina

Eva Maria Fenyö, MD

Professor

Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

and Lund University, Lund

Sweden

Gerald Friedland, MD

Director, AIDS Program

Professor of Medicine and

Epidemiology and Public Health

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven, CN

USA

Katsuyuki Fukutake, MD, PhD

Professor and Chairman of Clinical Pathology

Director, HIV Program

Tokyo Medical University Hospital

Japan

Raman Gangakhedkar, MD

Assistant Director

National AIDS Research Institute

Indian Council of Medical Research

Pune

India

Jose Gatell, MD

Spain

Helene Gayle, MD, PhD

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA

USA

Marc Gentilini, MD

President

French Red Cross

Paris

France

Carlo Giaquinto, MD

Department of Paediatrics

University of Padova

Italy

Diana Gibb, MD, MSc

Senior Clinical Epidemiologist/Paediatrician

MRC Clinical Trials Unit

London

UK

I.S. Gilada, MBBS, DDV, FCPS

Consultant in HIV/AIDS

Unison Medicare & Research Center

Mumbai

India

Charles F. Gilks, DPhil, FRCP, DTM&H

Professor of Tropical Medicine

Head, Tropical Medicine Division

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

UK

Marc Girard, DVM, DSc

Professor

Director, European Center for Research in Virology and Immunology

Marcel Mérieux Foundation

Lyon, France

Jean Claude Gluckman, MD

Professor of Immunology

Hôpital Saint-Antoine

Paris

France

Qiming Gong, MD

Service of Infectious Diseases

Ruijin Hospital

Shanghai

China

Jaap Goudsmit, MD, PhD

Professor of Virology

Department of Human Retrovirology

Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

Glenda Gray, MBBCH, FCPæds

Director, Perinatal HIV Research Unit

University of Witwatersrand

Johannesburg

South Africa

Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD

Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology

University of California, San Francisco

USA

Dirceu B. Greco

Professor of Internal Medicine

Chief, Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

Belo Horizonte

Brazil

Ashraf Grimwood, MBChB, MPH

National Chair, NACOSA

Director, Scientific Affairs, Secure The Future

Cape Town

South Africa

Claude Griscelli, MD, PhD

Professor

Director, Institut Nationale de Recherche Médicale (INSERM)

Paris

France

Geeta Rao Gupta, PhD

President

International Center for Research on Women

Washington, DC

USA

Ashley T. Haase, MD

Regents’ Professor and Head

Department of Microbiology

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN

USA

Beatrice H. Hahn, MD

Professor of Medicine and Microbiology

University of Alabama, Birmingham

USA

Scott M. Hammer, MD

Professor of Medicine

Columbia University

New York, NY

USA

Catherine Hankins, MD, MSc, CCFP, FRCPC

Associate Professor

McGill University Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Associate Director, McGill University AIDS Centre

Montréal, Québec

Canada

Masanori Hayami, PhD

Institute for Virus Research

Kyoto University

Japan

Bart Haynes, MD

Professor of Medicine

Duke AIDS Center

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC

USA

Martin S. Hirsch, MD

Professor of Medicine

Harvard University

Director, AIDS Clinical Research

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

USA

Bernard Hirschel, MD

Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire

Geneva

Switzerland

David D. Ho, MD

Director

Aaaron Diamond AIDS Research Center

New York, NY

USA

James A. Hoxie, MD

Professor of Medicine

Director, Penn Center for AIDS Research

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

USA

Eric Hunter, PhD

Professor of Microbiology

Director, Center for AIDS Research

University of Alabama, Birmingham

USA

Greg Hussey, MBChB, MMed, DTM&H, FFCH

Associate Professor

Head, Paediatric Infectious Diseases

University of Cape Town

South Africa

John Idoko, MD

Professor of Medicine

University of Jos

Nigeria

Raul Isturiz, MD, FACP

Department of Medicine

Centro Medico de Caracas

Caracas

Venezuela

Marian Jacobs

Professor of Child Health

University of Cape Town

Rondebosch

South Africa

Assan Jaye, DVM, PhD

Immunologist, HIV and Virology Programme

Medical Research Council

Banjul

The Gambia

Pontiano Kaleebu, MBChB, PhD

Head, Department of Immunology

MRC/Uganda Virus Research Institute

Entebbe

Uganda

Artur O. Kalichman, MD

Brazil

Lars O. Kallings, MD, PhD

Professor

Secretary General, International AIDS Society

Permanent Secretariat

Stockholm

Sweden

Chipepo Kankasa, MD

Paediatrician

University Teaching Hospital

Research Manager, MTCT Working Group

Central Board of Health

Lusaka

Zambia

Etienne Karita

National Reference Laboratory

Ministry of Health

Kigali

Rwanda

Elly Katabira, MD

Uganda

Christine Katlama, MD, PhD

Professor

Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière

Paris

France

Samuel L. Katz, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, NC

USA

Michel Kazatchkine, MD

Director, ANRS

Professor

Hôpital Broussais

Paris

France

Satoshi Kimura, MD

Professor of Medicine

Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases

University of Tokyo

Japan

Takashi Kitamura, MD, PhD

Director, Toyama Institute of Health

Director Emeritus

National Institute of Infectious Diseases

Tokyo

Japan

Suporn Koetsawang, MD, FRCOG

Professor

Reproductive Health Research Center

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Siriraj Hospital

Mahidol University

Bangkok

Thailand

Wayne Koff, PhD

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

New York, NY

USA

Bette Korber

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, NM

USA

Richard A. Koup, MD

Chief of Infectious Diseases

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dallas, TX

USA

Philippe Kourilsky, PhD

Director, Institut Pasteur

Professor, College de France

Paris

France

Andrei P. Kozlov, PhD

Director, Biomedical Research Center

Executive Director, Russian Association Against AIDS

St. Petersburg

Russia

Joan K. Kreiss, MD, MPH

Professor

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

USA

N. Kumarasamy, MD

YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education

Chennai

India

Reinhard Kurth, MD

Director

Robert Koch Institute

Berlin

Germany

Joep Lange, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Director, National AIDS Therapy Evaluation Center

Academic Medical Center

University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Ahmed S. Latif, MBChB, FCP, MD

Professor

Chairman, Department of Medicine

University of Zimbabwe Medical School

Harare

Zimbabwe

Christopher K.C. Lee, MD

Infectious Disease Physician

Hospital Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Norman L. Letvin, MD

Professor of Medicine

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

USA

Jay A. Levy, MD

Department of Medicine

University of California, San Francisco

USA

Jean-Paul Levy, MD

Former Director, ANRS

Professor

Hôpital Cochin

Paris

France

David S. Lewi

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases

Federal University of São Paulo

Brazil

Khanchit Limpakarnjanarat, MD, MPH

Adjunct Director

The HIV/AIDS Collaboration

Ministry of Public Health

Nonthaburi

Thailand

Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD

Professor

Skirball Institute

New York University School of Medicine

New York, NY

USA

André Villela Lomar, MD

Chief Professor of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases

School of Medicine, Mogi das Cruzes University

São Paulo

Brazil

Franco Lori, MD

Scientific Director

Research Institute for Genetic and Human Therapy (RIGHT)

IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo

Pavia

Italy

Chewe Luo, MD

University Teaching Hospital

Lusaka

Zambia

Mike McCune, MD, PhD

Senior Investigator

Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology

University of California, San Francisco

USA

James McIntyre, MBChB, MRCOG

Associate Professor

Director, Perinatal HIV Research Unit

University of the Witwatersrand

Johannesburg

South Africa

Andrew McMichael, MB, PhD, FRS

Director

MRC Human Immunology Unit

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford

UK

Carlos Magis, MD, MPH

Research Director

National AIDS Program

Mexico City

Mexico

Malegapuru William Makgoba, MBChB, DPhil, FRCP, FRSSAfr.

Professor/President

Medical Research Council of South Africa

Cape Town

South Africa

Des Martin, MD

President, Southern African HIV Clinicians Society

Johannesburg

South Africa

M.J. Matjila, MBChB, MMed

Department of Community Health

MEDUNSA

South Africa

Philippe Mauclere, MD

Director, Institut Pasteur de Madagascar

Antananarivo

Madagascar

Chipo Mbanje

Zimbabwe

Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, MBChB, MMed, MPH

Senior Lecturer

Department of Paediatrics

University of Nairobi

Kenya

Souleymane M’Boup, PharmD, PhD

Professor of Microbiology

University Cheikh Anta DIOP

Dakar

Senegal

Nicolas Meda

Burkina Faso

John W. Mellors, MD

Professor of Medicine

Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Pittsburgh, PA

USA

Thomas C. Merigan, MD

Becker Professor of Medicine

Director, Center for AIDS Research

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, CA

USA

Michael H. Merson, MD

Dean of Public Health

Professor and Chairman

Department of Epidemiology and Public Health

Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS

Yale University School of Medicine

New Haven, CN

USA

Fred Mhalu, MD

Dar es Salaam

Tanzania

Frank Miedema, PhD

Manager, Research & Development Division

CLB

Professor, Immunology of AIDS

Academic Medical Center

University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Francis Miiro, MBChB, FROG

Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Makerere University Medical School

Kampala

Uganda

Steven Miller, MMed, MRCPath

Medical Director, InnovirInstitute

Johannesburg

South Africa

Veronica Miller, PhD

Director, Interdisciplinary HIV Research Unit

HIV Outpatient Clinic

J.W. Goethe University

Frankfurt

Germany

John Mills, MD

Professor of Medicine & Microbiology

Director, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research

Melbourne

Australia

Hiroaki Mitsuya, MD, PhD

Professor and Chairman

Department of Medicine

Kumamoto University School of Medicine

Japan

Luc Montagnier, MD

Professor

Virus Oncology Unit

Institut Pasteur

Paris

France

Julio S.G. Montaner, MD

Chair, AIDS Research

Director, John Ruedy Immunodeficiency Clinic

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC

Canada

John P. Moore, PhD

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

New York, NY

USA

Lynn Morris, PhD

National Institute for Virology

Johannesburg

South Africa

Roy D. Mugerwa, MBChB, MMed

Professor of Medicine

Makerere University Medical School

Kampala

Uganda

Philippa Musoke, MBChB, FAAP

Department of Pediatrics

Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University

Research Collaboration

Kampala

Uganda

Rosemary M. Musonda, MD

Senior Immunologist

Tropical Disease Research Centre

Ndola

Zambia

Alwyn Mwinga, MBChB, MMed

Coordinator UNZA-UCLM Project

Department of Medicine

University of Zambia

Lusaka

Zambia

Warren Naamara, MBChB, MSPH

Country Programme Adviser

UNAIDS Kenya, South Sudan and Somalia

Nairobi

Kenya

Gary J. Nabel, MD, PhD

Vaccine Research Center

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

USA

Rafael Nájera, MD, PhD, DPH

Chief, Department of Viral Pathogenesis

National Center for Fundamental Biology

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Majadahonda

Madrid

Spain

Neal Nathanson, MD

Professor

Director, Office of AIDS Research

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, MD

USA

Ruth Nduati, MBChB, MMed, MPH

Senior Lecturer

Department of Paediatrics

University of Nairobi

Kenya

Mun Hon Ng, MD

Professor

Chairman, Hong Kong AIDS Foundation

Department of Microbiology

University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

John N. Nkengasong, PhD

Centers for Disease Control

Abidjan

Ivory Coast

Susie A. Noguiera, MD, PhD

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

Andrew Nunn, MSc

Head Division Without Portfolio

MRC Clinical Trials Unit

London

UK

Makase Nyaphisi, MD, MPH

Public Health Specialist

Lesotho Highlands Development Authority

Maseru

Lesotho

Stephen J. O’Brien, PhD

Chief, Laboratory of Genomic Diversity

National Cancer Institute

Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center

Frederick, MD

USA

Shinichi Oka, MD

Director, AIDS Clinical Center

International Medical Center of Japan

Tokyo

Japan

Giuseppe Pantaleo

Switzerland

Finn Skou Pedersen, PhD

Professor

University of Aarhus

Denmark

Martine Peeters, PhD

Virologist

Institut pour la Recherche en Developement (IRD)

Montpellier

France

Alan S. Perelson

Group Leader

Theoretical Biology & Biophysics

Los Alamos National Laboratory

New Mexico, USA

Gloria Echeverria de Perez, MD, MSc

Professor of Immunology

Faculty of Medicine

Central University of Venezuela

Caracas

Venezuela

Max F. Perutz, PhD

Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1962

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Cambridge

UK

John P. Phair, MD

Professor of Medicine

Director, Comprehensive AIDS Center

and Division of Infectious Diseases

Northwestern University Medical School

Chicago, IL

USA

Praphan Phanuphak, MD, PhD

Director, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre

Bangkok

Thailand

Gaston Picchio

The Scripps Research Institute

La Jolla, California

USA

William G. Powderly, MD

Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, MO

USA

Walter Prozesky, MBChB

Professor, Director

South African AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Cape Town

South Africa

Thomas C. Quinn, MD

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

USA

Julio A. Ramirez, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine

Chief, Infectious Diseases

University of Louisville School of Medicine

Louisville, KY

USA

Douglas D. Richman, MD

Professor of Pathology and Medicine

University of California, San Diego and

San Diego VA Healthcare System

La Jolla, CA

USA

Carlos Magis Rodríguez

Research Director

National AIDS Progam

Mexico

Christine Rouzioux, MD, PhD

Professor

Groupe Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades

Paris, France

Sarah Rowland-Jones, DM, FRCP

MRC Senior Fellow

Human Immunology Unit

Institute of Molecular Medicine

John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford

UK

Li Ruan, MD, PhD

Director, Institute of Virology

Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine

Beijing

China

Kiat Ruxrungtham

Deputy Director

HIV-NAT, TRC AIDS Research Centre

Bangkok, Thailand

Michael S. Saag, MD

Professor of Medicine

Director, AIDS Outpatient Clinic

University of Alabama, Birmingham

USA

Jorge Saavedra, MD

Mexico City AIDS Prevention, Control and Care Committee

Mexico DF

Mexico

Horacio Salomón

National Reference Center for AIDS

Department of Microbiology

University of Buenos Aires

Argentina

N.M. Samuel, MBBS, MSc, PhD

Professor and Head of Division

Department of Experimental Medicine

& AIDS Resource Center

President, AIDS Society of India

TN Dr. MGR Medical University

Chennai

India

Eduardo Savio, MD

Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases

University of the Republic

Montevideo, Uruguay

Gabriella Scarlatti, MD, PhD

HIV Immunobiology Unit, Laboratory of Virology

San Raffaele Scientific Institute

Milan, Italy

Ernesto G. Scerpella, MD

Division of Infectious Diseases

Clinical Immunology Section

University of Miami

Miami, FL

USA

Robert T. Schooley

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Denver, Colorado

USA

Mauro Schechter, MD, PhD

Professor of Infectious Diseases

Head, AIDS Research Laboratory

Hospital Universitario Clementino Fraga Filho

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

Shobha Sehgal, MD, FAMS

Emeritus Scientist

Indian Council of Medical Research

Department of Immunopathology

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Chandigarh

India

Maxime Seligmann, MD

Professor

Hôpital Saint-Louis

Paris

France

David Serwadda, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Institute of Public Health

Kampala

Uganda

Pradeep Seth, MD, FAMS

Professor and Head

Department of Microbiology

All India Institute of Medical Sciences

New Delhi

India

Wing Hong Seto, MD

Professor

President, Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control

Queen Mary Hospital

Hong Kong

Nelson Sewankambo, MD

Dean, Makerere Medical School

Kampala

Uganda

George M. Shaw, MD, PhD

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology

University of Alabama, Birmingham

USA

Robert Siliciano, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

USA

Freddy Sitas, PhD

Head, National Cancer Registry

Director, MRC/SAIMR/CANSA/WITS

Cancer Epidemiology Research Group

Johannesburg

South Africa

Margaret Siwale, MD

Senior Pediatrician

ZCCM Clinic

Lusaka

Zambia

Peter G. Smith, DSc

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

London, UK

Joseph G. Sodroski, MD

Professor

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

USA

Vincent Soriano, MD

Section Chief

Service of Infectious Diseases

Hospital Carlos III

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Madrid

Spain

Papa Salif Sow, MD, MSc

Associate Professor

Department of Infectious Diseases

Fann Hospital

Dakar

Senegal

Mario Stevenson, PhD

University of Massachusetts Medical Center

Worcester, MA

USA

John L. Sullivan, PhD

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Worcester, MA

USA

Didi Sumarsidi, MD

Yayasan Hati Sehat Foundation

Mataram

Indonesia 

Amilcar Tanuri, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Head, Molecular Virology Laboratory

Department of Genetics

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Brazil

Achara Teeraratkul, MD

Medical Epidemiologist

HIV/AIDS Collaboration

Bangkok

Thailand

Andre Tehe, MD

Assistant Chief

Clinical Biological Laboratory

Projet RETRO-CI

Abidjan

Ivory Coast

Hiroshi Terunuma, MD, PhD

Department of Microbiology

Yamanashi Medical University

Japan

Sheila D. Tlou, PhD

Associate Professor

University of Botswana

Gaborone, Botswana

Pier-Angelo Tovo, MD

Professor of Pediatrics

University of Turin

Italy

Angela Trenton-Mbonde

Master of Health Services Administration

Country Programme Adviser, UNAIDS

Lilongwe, Malawi

Patricia Uribe-Zúñiga, MD

Researcher and General Director

AIDS National Council (CONASIDA)

Mexico City

Mexico

Charles van der Horst, MD

Professor of Medicine

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

USA

Philippe Van de Perre, MD, PhD

Professor of Microbiology

Centre Muraz/OCCGE

Bobo-Dioulasso

Burkina Faso

Carine Van Lint, PhD

Associate Professor

University of Brussels

Institute of Biology and Molecular Medicine

Gosselies

Belgium

Juan Diego Vélez

Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Valle del Lili Foundation

Cali, Colombia

Stefano Vella, MD

President-Elect, International AIDS Society

Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Rome

Italy

V.K. Vinayak, MD

Department of Biotechnology

Ministry of Science & Technology

New Delhi

India

Marco Antônio de Ávila Vitória, MD

HIV Care Unit

National STD/AIDS Programme

Ministry of Health

Brasília, DF

Brazil

Paul Volberding, MD

University of California, San Francisco

Director, Positive Health Program

San Francisco General Hospital

Co-Director, Center for AIDS Research

San Francisco, CA

USA

Mark A. Wainberg, PhD

President, International AIDS Society

Professor

McGill University AIDS Centre

Montreal

Canada

Simon Wain-Hobson, PhD

Professor

Molecular Retrovirology Unit

Institut Pasteur

Paris

France

Bruce D. Walker, MD

Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Director, Partners AIDS Research Center

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, USA

Kean Wang, MD

Director, National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control

President, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine

Beijing, China

Seng Sut Wantha, MD

Deputy Director

National Center for HIV/AIDS

Ministry of Health

Kingdom of Cambodia

David A. Warrell, MA, DM, DSc, FRCP, FRCPE, FMedSci

Professor of Tropical Medicine & Infectious Diseases

Director, The Centre for Tropical Medicine

John Radcliffe Hospital

University of Oxford

UK

Jonathan Weber

UK

Robin A. Weiss

Professor of Viral Oncology

Wohl Virion Centre

Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences

University College London

UK

Hilton Whittle, FRCP

Deputy Director

Medical Research Laboratories

Banjul, The Gambia

Hans Wigzell, MD, PhD

President

Karolinska Institute

Stockholm

Sweden

Catherine Wilfert, MD

Scientific Director

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Professor Emerita

Duke University Medical Center

Durham, North Carolina

USA

Carolyn Williamson, PhD

South African Institute for Medical Research

University of Cape Town

South Africa

Dewa N. Wirawan, MD, MPH

Professor

Department of Public Health

School of Medicine

Udayana University

Denpasar, Bali

Indonesia

Marcelo J. Wolff, MD, FACP

University of Chile School of Medicine

Arriaran Foundation

Santiago, Chile

Robin Wood, FCP (SA)

Associate Professor of Medicine

University of Cape Town

South Africa

Zunyou Wu, MD

National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control

Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine

Beijing

China

Zheng Xiwen, MD, MSc

Deputy Director (Executive)

National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control

Beijing

China

Weimin Xu

China

Naoki Yamamoto, MD

Professor and Chairman

Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Department of Microbiology

Tokyo

Japan

Patrick Yeni, MD, PhD

Professor

Groupe Hôspitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard

Paris

France

Carlos Zala, MD

Huesped Foundation

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Leopold Zekeng, MD

Clinical Biologist

National AIDS Committee

Ministry of Public Health

Yaounde

Cameroon

Fujie Zhang, MD

Deputy Chief, Department of Infectious Diseases

Associate Professor, Beijing Ditan Hospital

Beijing

China

Xiwen Zheng

China

Lynn Sodai Zijenah, PhD

Lecturer

Department of Immunology

University of Zimbabwe Medical School

Harare

Zimbabwe

Rolf Zinkernagel, PhD

Professor, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1996

University of Zurich

Switzerland

Ali Zumla, PhD, FRCP

Professor

Director, Centre for Infectious Diseases

University College London

UK

Committee Secretary

Peter Hale

AIDS Research Alliance

Los Angeles, CA