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Bridging the gap begins with equal access to services for mother and child in the North and the South.

Efforts to reduce perinatal transmission fuel the debate over "haves" and "have nots"
A new, short course of AZT has potential to rein in the galloping rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the developing world. MORE

Monday Plenary
Perinatal transmission: A mother's story
"How is it that doctors so far have not been taking a more holistic, long term view of women's lives?" MORE

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Since the printing of the workbook, both science and community

JUST ADDED: Daily Summaries of the previous day's Scientific and Community Sessions
Summaries of Sessions are provided in a condensed format

VOX POPULI
How can we get treatments into resource-poor settings?

Catholic church under siege over condom issue
Delegate: 'The same God who commands us not to commit adultery is the God who tells us protect our families, including not infecting them with HIV'. MORE

TODAY's PROGRAMME
Harm reduction for IDU's: Community, Family Support Key
Session C36 later today will discuss the roles and challenges of community-level HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention initiatives for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Lithuania and Bangladesh. MORE

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T R A C K A
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T R A C K C
epidemiology,
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public health

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Condom use soars after intervention, China


ALL SHAPES AND SIZES A selection of the condoms available from the NGO booths at the 12th World AIDS Conference

T R A C K B
clinical science
and care

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T R A C K D
social and
behavioural science

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India: Bad Politics Form Bad Policies

EYES ON TECHNOLOGY

Record number of visitors to the Conference Internet site causes temporary traffic jam
The online news service of the 12^th World AIDS Conference, aids98.ch was visited by so many people during the Opening Ceremony that the Conference had to change service providers in order to provide access to the latest in news on HIV/AIDS.

The on-site Delegate email System became so popular that it had to be shut down to accomodate more than 12,000 Delegates using personal email accounts provided by the Conference. In the first day alone, over 29,000 messages were sent!