Group focuses on development of worldwide registry of HIV clinical trials. (Core Working Group for the Development of an International Registry of HIV Clinical Trials) (VIII International Conference on AIDS)

VIII International Conference on AIDS

A core working group was formed at the VIII International Conference on AIDS to determine the future of a potential international registry of HIV clinical trials.

No single compiled source of AIDS-related drug treatment trials currently exists on an international basis. Treatment information from one country is not routinely distributed to other countries, and duplication of effort and misinformation prevails.

Charles W. Henderson, publisher and editor in chief of AIDS Weekly, AIDS Therapies and AIDS Monthly, and member of the Core Working Group for the Development of an International Registry of HIV Clinical Trials, told the group at its July 23, 1992, meeting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, that other groups in the past had failed in attempts to produce an international registry of HIV …