National & International Calendar.

Nov. 7-10: Ass'n of Nurses in AIDS Care, San Francisco, CA. Contact: 80 S. Summit St., 500 Courtyard Square, Akron, OH 44308-1736; tel: [phone].

Nov. 17-21: 6th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, Glasgow, Scotland. Tel: [phone]; HIV6@gardiner_caldwell.com

Dec. 1-3: 2nd Int'l Conference on Substance Abuse & HIV, Hope 2002, Mumbai, India. Tel: [phone], Cell: 98204 27223

Dece. 1-4: 4th Nat'l Harm Reduction Conference, "Taking Drug Users Seriously", Seattle, WA. Contact: HRC, 22 W. 27th St., 5th fir, NY, NY 10001. Fax: [phone]; [e-mail], www.harmreduction.org

Dec. 8-11: National AIDS Treatment Advocates Forum (NATAF), New Orleans, LA. Contact: Paul Woods, NMAC, 1931 13th St., NW, Washington, DC 20009-4432. Tel: [phone] x343 or [e-mail].

March 8, 2003: International Women's Day. Interested in helping organize to recognize AIDS as a women's issue on this day? Contact

March 30-April 2: 15th National HIV/AIDS Update Conference (NAUC), Miami, FL. (held in San Francisco in previous years). www.nauc.org. 212/806-1631.

Your input is needed and always welcome!

At WORLD, all of our programs were developed as a response to what HIV+ women said they needed to live better, and longer. A question we get today often becomes a future issue of the newsletter. If there are topics you'd like to see covered in WORLD, we'd love to hear from you. Write, call or e-mail Rebecca Denison, Editor ([e-mail]). A couple topics we're working on are 1) TREATMENT DECISIONS & SIDE EFFECTS, 2) HIV and women's HORMONES, 3) OLDER WOMEN with HIV, and 4) ECONOMIC SURVIVAL. If you'd like to write for one of these issues, or on another topic, please let us know!

More information on Pregnancy and Parenting is available

Please contact WORLD if you'd like us to send any of the following:

* Pregnancy packet (information on HIV and pregnancy)

* Sperm washing packet

* Parenting packet

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