Groups will
provide online coverage of International AIDS Conference

The International AIDS Society and the Kaiser Family Foundation announced a partnership between the two organizations to provide comprehensive online coverage of the 16th International AIDS Conference, which will be held August 13-18 in Toronto. Kaiser will serve as the official Webcaster for the conference, providing daily conference news on its Web site at www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2006. "We are committed to ensuring that those not able to attend the conference have access to its contents through an online Webcast," said IAS executive director Craig McClure in a press statement. "In addition, the Webcast allows those at the conference access to a lasting record of conference proceedings."

Daily coverage will include:

* Live and tape-delayed Webcasts and transcripts of each day's sessions, including the opening and closing sessions, all plenary sessions, and selected other sessions and press conferences;

* English-, French-, and Spanish-language audio podcasts of select sessions;

* Slide presentations from select conference sessions;

* Daily narrated video highlights of conference developments;

* A free daily update e-mail providing direct access to the latest coverage;

* Special coverage of select conference sessions as well as news summaries from international media in the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report;

* Interviews with newsmakers and journalists to summarize conference developments. (The Advocate)