AIDS CONFERENCES & SPECIAL PROJECTS

The following are sites AIDS conferences for medical and health professionals, the general public, people with HIV and their advocates.

AIDS CONFERENCES

• ICAAC Annual Conference Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC). Visit the ICAAC site for abstract submission, conference registration, information on workshops, travel and housing for this year's event.

• AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) National Resource Center (NRC) Website The AETC National Resource Center provides education and training resources for the regional AETCs to support their mission to offer timely, high quality, state-of-the-art information to healthcare professionals working with existing and emerging populations affected by HIV. Funded by the Health Resources Services Administration

• National Minority AIDS Council - Conferences and Web Broadcasts Upcoming NMAC conferences presented with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of AIDS Research, and the Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services

• The International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO) Conferences ICASO is a Network of community-based AIDS organizations. The page lists ICASO affiliates' annual AIDS conferences.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

• Project Inform San Francisco and across the US. Project inform provide information on the diagnosis and treatment of HIV disease, advocates for enlightened regulatory, research, and funding policies, and helps people living with HIV/AIDS make informed choices.

• Project Open Hand Founded on the vision of "nutrition with compassion" to provide meals to those too weak from AIDS or too impoverished to feed themselves, today, Project Open Hand has expanded its services to provide Meals with Love to people who are homebound and critically ill. Project Open Hand's goal is to feed the body, mind and soul, through healthy meals, groceries and nutrition information, all delivered with love, by our dedicated staff and volunteers.

• AIDS in Prison Project A project of New York State, it provides prisoners at Sing Sing, Fishkill, Downstate and Green Haven Correctional Facilities with onsite HIV/AIDS with education, testing, counseling, information on treatment, referrals and discharge planning.

• Pediatric AIDS Foundation Website to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation projects and programs. The Foundations mission is to identify, fund and conduct critical pediatric research to better treatments and prevention of HIV infection in infants, children, and HIV transmission from mother to child.

• FightAIDSatHome A computational research project partnership between Entropia and the Olson laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute, uses your computer to assist AIDS research.

• AIDS Memorial Quilt The AIDS Memorial Quilt Project provides a creative means for remembrance and healing, illustrates the enormity of the AIDS epidemic, increase public awareness of AIDS, assists with HIV prevention education, and raises funds for community-based AIDS service organizations.