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Table 1 History of The International Conference on Human Retroviruses

Conference	Month/Year	Venue	Attendance	Host
I	February/1988	Honolulu, Hawaii, USA	100	Dr. Diwan, University of Hawaii, USA
II	March/1989	Port of Spain, Trinidad	114	University of West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
III	February/1990	Maui, Hawaii, USA	175	Dr. Diwan, University of Hawaii, USA
IV	February/1991	Montego Bay, Jamaica	229	University of West Indies, Jamaica
V	May/1992	Kumamoto, Japan	300	Kumamoto University, Japan
VI	May/1994	Absecon, New Jersey, USA	375	Dr. Stanley Weiss, University Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Absecon, New Jersey, USA
VII	October/1995	Paris, France	320	Drs. De The & A. Gessain, Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
VIII	June/1997	Rio de Janeiro	344	Dr. Pombo de Oliveira, Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Brazil
IX	April/1999	Kagoshima, Japan	366	Profs Osame and Sonoda, Kagoshima University, Japan
X	June/2001	Dublin, Ireland	330	Prof. Hall, University College, Dublin, Ireland
XI	June/2003	San Francisco, California	275	Prof. Murphy, University of California, San Francisco, USA
XII	June/2005	Montego Bay, Jamaica	240*	Prof. Hanchard & Prof. Owen Morgan, University of West Indies, Jamaica

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