Barcelona International Conference, July 7-12 -- Web sites to watch.The XIV International AIDS Conference Education, networking and the promotion of best practice are essential to enhancing the response to HIV/AIDS. IAS conferences provide opportunities to share experience, and increase the knowledge and expertise of professionals working in HIV/AIDS. will take place July 7-12 in Barcelona, Spain -- with important satellite meetings starting several days before. These meetings happen only once every two years; no breakthroughs are expected, but important research and medical developments will be presented. And AIDS workers from around the world will meet and organize on dealing with the global epidemic. Personal note: Due to a mild pneumonia, we had to cancel our plans to go to Barcelona, and also delay this issue. So we will refer our readers to the best conference coverage by others. As this issue goes to press, the meeting has just begun, and little coverage exists so far. Here are some sites you may want to watch. Official conference site: http://www.aids2002.org The official Web site works better than it used to, and now has the conference abstracts online, as well as other program information. Kaiser Family Foundation The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), or just Kaiser Family Foundation, is a U.S.-based non-profit, private operating foundation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. : http://kaisernetwork.org (also http://www.kff.org/aids2002) The Kaiser Family Foundation is producing daily news reports from the conference, which are syndicated and appear on several other AIDS Web sites as well. We will follow them on this site, since the other ones may not run all of the stories. Medscape, http://hiv.medscape.com Medscape usually has excellent conference coverage. Later, the material may be organized into CME CME See: Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME See Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). (Continuing Medical Education continuing medical education See CME. ) modules, which are designed for physicians or other medical professionals, but are available to anyone who wants to use them. Note: The first time you use the Medscape site you need to register, but registration is free. HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. and Hepatitis.com, http://www.hivandhepatitis.com This site has AIDS and hepatitis news stories -- including reports from the XI International HIV Drug Resistance HIV drug resistance Antiretroviral drug resistance AIDS The resistance of a strain of HIV to an agent–eg, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor, which occurs in 5%-20% of those newly infected with HIV Workshop, July 2-5, 2002, in Seville, Spain Health & Development Networks, http://www.hdnet.org/home2.htm Health & Development Networks, based in Dublin, Pretoria, and Chiang Mai Chiang Mai (jyäng` mī`) or Chiengmai (jyĕng`–), city (1990 pop. 164,902), capital of Chiang Mai prov., N Thailand, on the Ping River, near the Myanmar border. , has for years maintained major email lists on international AIDS. It is publishing original reports from the Barcelona conference. International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, http://www.iapac.org IAPAC is publishing a daily newsletter from the Barcelona conference. It is available on their site. The Body, http://www.thebody.com The Body will publish original next-day coverage of the Barcelona conference. National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project (NATAP NATAP National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project NATAP North American Trade Automation Prototype ), http://www.natap.org Besides coverage of the Barcelona conference, NATAP also has reports from the XI International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop, July 2-5, 2002, in Seville, Spain. Women At Barcelona, http://www.womenatbarcelona.net This project brings information about women and AIDS to the public in Barcelona -- and makes conference information more accessible to the great majority of those affected, who are not AIDS specialists. UNAIDS UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS , http://www.unaids.org UNAIDS, the accepted authority on the global epidemic, has conference information as it relates to the United Nations. |
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