The 43nd Annual Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society occurs February 4-7, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. The theme of this meeting is  “Networks, Connectivity and Neuropsychology”. 

The 22nd Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) occurs from February 23 - 26 in Seattle, Washington.

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.

The National Institute on Drug Abuse published an article by investigator Dr. Steven Paul Woods and collaborator, Kaitlin Blackstone, on the burden of methamphetamine use and human immunodeficiency virus imposes on daily functioning. 

In an article by Stephanie Findlay HNRP investigator Dr. David Moore weighs in on how mobile technology could be an inexpensive response to taxed health care systems.  "Apps exist to help people locate the closest HIV testing site......What if you could do something like an HIV rapid test using an app on your phone? That could be a game changer in terms of HIV incidence."  The article describes the overwhelming response of text messages U-Report, a text-message based HIV counseling hotline, receives from HIV-infected Zambian teenagers asking "brutally honest" questions related to the infection. 

Newsweek published an article by Erika Hayasaki on September 18, 2014, "The First HIV/AIDS Generation Reaches Retirement Age".  The article covers many of the issues of an aging HIV infected population.  These issues are the impetus of HNRP research focusing on prospective memory, adherence to medication, comorbid aging conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and neurological conditions such as dementia.

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