[procaare] Virtual window on the Barcelona Conference

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Virtual window on the Barcelona Conference
AIDS2002/HDN Information Release
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*14,000: The number of people who will most likely attend the XIV International AIDS
Conference in Barcelona next week.

* 14,000: is also the number of people who were infected with HIV each and every day last
year. * For every person at the conference, there are over two thousand people living with
HIV today. * For every delegate, there are one thousand children who have lost one or both
parents to AIDS. * For every person at the Barcelona Conference, there are hundreds of
leading health workers, biomedical and community AIDS experts around the world who will
not be there to share their own first-hand expertise.

Those people also need to hear about the latest discoveries and observations on the impact
of the epidemic and what can be done to halt its spread. But the costs of getting to
Spain, registering for the conference itself and taking time out from day-to-day work are
simply not possible.

They have not been overlooked.

Thanks to an innovative low-tech approach, the power of electronic mail and the internet
is providing a front row seat at the first major AIDS event since the UN Special Session
on AIDS last June - without even leaving home.

On each day of the meeting, reports and summaries of presentations, debates, interviews
and commentaries on new developments will be provided through a dedicated email, internet
and Worldspace satellite reporting service - opening a window to those who cannot see and
hear them in person.

The services have been specially designed to use e-mail and low-bandwidth connections,
making the information content of the conference accessible to as many people and
communities as possible - including in countries with only poor internet connectivity.
Articles will also be broadcast through the Worldspace satellite service to physicians and
other health workers in all African countries.

To help avoid the information overload often experienced around such events, users will be
able to request only the reports and articles they wish to read - they will then be
delivered to their email inbox. No deluge of postings - and no need for expensive and
time-consuming web browsing.

All reports and articles are made freely available for reproduction elsewhere as
appropriate.

How to take part:

To receive listings of daily reports and articles as they become available, copies of the
conference daily on-site newspaper, and daily updates from a team of fifty dedicated Key
Correspondents, write now to:

join-intaids@healthdev.net

These information services are provided free of charge to users by Health & Development
Networks in collaboration with the XIV International AIDS Conference Secretariat and
SATELLIFE.

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For further information, please contact:

Health & Development Networks (HDN)
David Haerry, Project Manager
Cheryl Nelson, KC Coordinator
Tel: +34 680 302 064 (Barcelona)
Email: correspondents@hdnet.org
Internet: http://www.hdnet.org

AIDS2002 Secretariat Karen Bennett
Communications Co-ordinator
Tel: +34 93 254 05 55
Email: kbennett@aids2002.com
Internet: www.aids2002.com

SATELLIFE
Leela McCullough
Director of Information Services
Email: leela@usa.healthnet.org
Internet: http://www.healthnet.org

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