MENLO PARK, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kaiser Family Foundation today announced that daily coverage of the XV International AIDS Conference (11-16 July 2004) in Bangkok will be made available by kaisernetwork.org. To sign up for email updates and to learn about options for putting the conference coverage on your Web site, visit http://www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2004. kaisernetwork.org is a free online health policy news and information service and named the official webcaster of the conference by the International AIDS Society.
Conference coverage kicks off with a live webcast of the opening ceremony on Sunday, July 11 and features daily coverage of the official conference press briefing and selected plenary sessions as well as newsmaker interviews with such leaders as Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS; Zackie Achmat, South African AIDS advocate; Richard Gere; and Randall Tobias, Coordinator of U.S. Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally.
Conference coverage will include:
-- Live and tape-delayed video webcasts and transcripts of each day's
sessions, including opening and closing ceremonies, all plenary
sessions, and selected other sessions and news conferences.
-- Daily video and text highlights of the day's developments.
-- Brief text summaries of and slide presentations from select conference
sessions.
-- Interviews with newsmakers and journalists to summarize conference
developments.
-- Video features on community responses to HIV/AIDS around the world.
-- Extended news coverage in the Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report.
Put conference coverage on your Web site:
Any organization can make conference coverage available to its own audiences through free, easy to use syndication options. Visit http://www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2004/syndication.aspx to learn more.
Available rights-free to broadcast media are the following videos: -- An in-depth look at HIV/AIDS in Thailand. It features interviews with people who are on the frontlines of efforts to fight HIV/AIDS in Thailand and explores such issues as condom use, the sex industry, and how HIV/AIDS affects young people. The piece can be used in its entirety (12:34 minutes) and edited for briefer stories. http://www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2004/thailand -- Broadcast-quality animation of the HIV virus. The video, available in 10 and 30 second clips, illustrates in a straightforward, easy to understand way how the HIV infects a cell and how antiviral treatments combat the virus. http://www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2004/animation
The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation dedicated to providing information and analysis on health care issues to policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.
Kaiser Family FoundationCONTACT: Rob Graham, +1-650-854-9400, ext. 237, or July 6-16,+011-66-1-250-0065 (Bangkok), or Robin Sidel, +1-202-347-5270, for KaiserFamily Foundation
Web site: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/aids2004
Web site: http://www.kff.org/
