CAVE Meeting October 9th, 2007

Please join us for the next meeting of the Capital Area Vaccine Effort (CAVE). We will meet on October 9th at the offices of Us Helping Us at 6:30 PM. Us Helping Us is located at 3636 Georgia Avenue NW, very close to the Georgia Ave Petworth Station Metro Stop. If you'd like to check out the minutes from our September meeting, click here.

There's a lot going on with CAVE right now. For one, we're partnering with The Center for their October 1st Presentation on HIV Vaccine Research. We're also going to be participating in AIDS Walk Washington as part of the DC Fights Back AIDS Walk Team. We also need to follow up with the HIV/AIDS Administration on HIV testing issues for HIV vaccine trial participants. We sent a letter to Dr. Pane and got a response, but we haven't yet got a meeting set up to discuss the issue with the appropriate folks at the HIV/AIDS Administration.

Finally, CAVE is looking at expanding our mission statement beyone HIV Vaccine Research to all Prevention research in the district. This would give us the ability to work on other prevention-research topics like Microbicides, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, Circumcision, other prevention research.

This is a great time to get involved in CAVE - please join us for the next meeting.