Review of the twelfth West Coast Retrovirus Meeting

Libya, HIV, and open communication

This year-end editorial discusses several points including the recent Libyan verdict sentencing five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor to death for allegedly infecting 426 children with HIV. It also comments on the role played by open communication for bridging cultural misunderstandings and summarizes briefly Retrovirology's progress in 2006.

The value of Institute of Human Virology meeting abstracts and beyond

This month Retrovirology publishes the meeting abstracts from the 10^th annual Institute of Human Virology conference held August 29^th to September 2^nd, 2005 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. In this editorial, the rationale for publishing meeting abstracts is discussed.