PARN is pleased to co-present with the PWA Info Centre: a local Conference Hub of the 17th International AIDS Conference.
This exciting opportunity will be of interest to service and care providers, health care professionals, students, social justice activists and people whose lives have been touched by HIV/AIDS.
All sessions will be screened in the Community Board room at Kawartha Participation Projects, 77 Towerhill Road in Peterborough.
Note: If you are not able to attend, see below for information on the Daily email newsletter with links to presentations that is available free of charge online.
We have chosen over 20 sessions that cover a broad range of important and interesting issues:
- Anti-Retroviral Therapy in 2008
- HIV/Hep C Co-Infection
- Vaccines and Microbicides
- Stigma and Discrimination
- Criminalization
- Injection Drug Use
- Women and HIV
- Human Rights
To see the schedule for these sessions click HERE
For details on the sessions click HERE
Each of the sessions will be presented one day after the original session.
There are a number of Canadian researchers, advocates and policy makers presenting at the conference. Sessions at the local Hub will include Ralf Jurgens, former legal director at the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and Sharon Walmsley (Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto/ Assistant Director, Immunodificiency Clinic, Toronto Hospital).
Of note: Bill Clinton's keynote lecture, HIV/AIDS and Health System Reform, will be screened on Wednesday August 6th at 1:15.
Please see the attached documents for more information. You can register online - http://www.aids2008.org/hubs/DisplayHub.aspx?HubID=67
Feel free to contact PARN for more information at 705-749-9110.
Kim Dolan
Executive Director
PARN-Your Community AIDS Resource Network
Peterborough, ON
K9J 2R8
www.parn.ca
705-749-9110
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Online Coverage of AIDS 2008: Daily Email Sign-up
As the XVII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) approaches, kaisernetwork.org, a free news and information service operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation, is the official webcaster of the conference. They will provide online viewers with access to the daily developments from the conference, taking place in Mexico City, August 3-8.
Sign up for the AIDS 2008 Daily Update Email now at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2008
(Note: Emails will not be sent to you until August. Then, they will be sent to you daily, starting August 3 and ending August 8, 2008.)
The Daily Update Email will include links to all of the coverage on kaisernetwork.org, including:
- Live and tape-delayed webcasts and transcripts of each day's sessions, including the opening and closing sessions, all plenary sessions, as well as selected other sessions and press conferences;
- English and Spanish-language audio podcasts of select sessions;
- Slide presentations from select conference sessions;
- Daily narrated video highlights of major conference developments;
- Extended news coverage available in the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, including summaries of coverage from international news sources and newly-released studies; and
- Interviews with newsmakers and journalists for analysis and summaries of conference developments.
We encourage you to forward this email to others who would be interested in following the daily developments of the XVII International AIDS Conference.
In addition, if your organization is interested in making the conference coverage available to its constituencies through its Web site or listservs at no cost, please visit http://www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2008/syndication.cfm for more information about our free syndication and content-sharing options, including a new online widget that can easily be added to Web sites, blogs and social networking pages.
Please email info@kaisernetwork.org or call 202.347.5270 x373 for more information or if you have any questions.