Reporting live from Day 1 of CROI 2015

Danielle Campbell

Here in Seattle, this week at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), courtesy of the first ever AVAC/ BAI Pilot Community Educator Scholarship, has been an experience bar none. The AVAC BAI Pilot Community Educator Scholarship is designed to increase the participation of community educators at CROI, thus providing invaluable access to the most up to date scientific research being conducted on retroviruses and opportunistic infections. As sited from the conference website, "... the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) brings together top basic, translational, and clinical researchers from around the world to share the latest studies, important developments, and best research methods in the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS and related infectious diseases. CROI is a global model of collaborative science and the premier international venue for bridging basic and clinical investigation into clinical practice in the field of HIV and related viruses." (croiconference.org, 2015) I have been fortunate to serve as the beneficiary of this opportunity that serves as a partnership more than five years in the making. I look forward to and am excited about the information that will come over the next four days, most importantly, how that information will be translated to my community back home.