In Brief
Report on Youth and HIV Prevention
As part of the Harvard AIDS Institute’s Marketing HIV Prevention program, organizers prepared a research report entitled, Listen to What America’s Kids Are Saying: A Qualitative Research Study. Findings presented in this report - the result of in-depth personal interviews conducted with 54 young people in four U.S. cities - provide insight into the complex issues that surround the sexuality of youth as they relate to HIV prevention. The young people revealed to the interviewers why there is such a gap between hearing HIV prevention messages and changing sexual behavior accordingly. They also offered a range of suggestions for motivating their peers to protect themselves against HIV.
Report on HIV in Botswana
In August 1997, the Harvard AIDS Institute sponsored the National Conference on HIV/AIDS in Botswana, along with the Ministry of Health AIDS/STD Unit, in Gaborone, Botswana. The conference reviewed the current status of the epidemic in Botswana, now one of the fastest growing in the world.
Symposium on HIV, Leukemia and Opportunistic Cancers
The Harvard AIDS Institute will sponsor the International Symposium on HIV, Leukemia, and Opportunistic Cancers in Marrakech, Morocco, on May 23–28, 1999. The symposium is the 20th in a series sponsored by the International Association for Comparative Research on Leukemia and Related Diseases. For the first time in the series’ 30-year history, the symposium will be held in Africa. With more than 20 million Africans infected with HIV and millions more at risk for hematologic diseases, the organizers believe that an African nation is an appropriate site for this important meeting. The symposium is cosponsored by the Leukemia Society of America.
  
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