In Brief

AIDS Researchers Meet in Lusaka, Zambia
Researchers from the Harvard AIDS Institute were among 6,327 participants representing seventy-seven countries at the XI International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa held September 12-16, in Lusaka, Zambia. Max Essex, chair of the Harvard AIDS Institute, delivered the plenary address on "Vaccine Initiatives in and for Africa." Essex also served on the conference’s organizing committees, along with Phyllis Kanki and Richard Marlink.

Stephen Popper, Jason Blackard, and Thumbi Ndung’u presented new data on HIV-2 and on various subtypes of HIV-1. In addition, the Institute’s Enhancing Care Initiative co-sponsored two roundtable sessions, one of which was chaired by Sofia Gruskin, director of the Human Rights Program of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Forum on Women and AIDS to be Cybercast
For the first time, the Harvard AIDS Institute will offer a cybercast of one of its events on the World Wide Web. The Institute’s October 19th forum, entitled Giving Voice to a Silent Epidemic: HIV/AIDS Care and Prevention for Women, was hosted by Mpule Kwelagobe, Miss Universe® 1999, and Richard Marlink, the Institute’s executive director. Check the Institute’s web site for a cybercast incorporating audio and visual components of the forum at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ hai/conferences/women_aids.html.