Final Program and Oral Abstracts [International Conference on AIDS (8th: 1992: Amsterdam, Netherlands)]

PROGRAM LISTING

OPENING CEREMONY
The Opening Ceremony of the VIII International Conference on AIDS/Ill STD World
Congress will take place on Sunday, 19 July, at 16.30 in the Hollandhal of the RAI
Conference Centre. Officials of The Netherlands, the City of Amsterdam, and Harvard
University will welcome the delegates, and Conference sponsors and Co-sponsors will
give brief messages. The principal address will be delivered by Ms. Eka Esu-Williams,
President of the Society for Women and AIDS in Africa and Professor at the University
of Calabar, Nigeria. Ms. Esu-Williams will provide an overview of global developments
in HIV/AIDS over the past year, as well as the societal responses to these developments.
GLOBAL MEETINGS
On the opening night of the Conference, the Community Liaison Committee will host
the first global meeting on access to HIV information, care, and treatment. Based on
the model of a New England Town Meeting, village meeting, or Talking Circle, the gathering
will provide Conference delegates with the opportunity to share all views on the crucial
issues of responsibility in the epidemic, the lack of global resources, the uneven access
to health care and information, and the goals of all involved in this global effort. By
sharing and talking in this facilitated setting, we can begin to form a common agenda
for uniting the world in its response to AIDS. We anticipate that people will take this
opportunity to speak openly, entering into an unprecedented discussion, the start of a
new global dialogue.
A follow-up meeting will be scheduled on Thursday night, to hear back from the many
organizations that will hold their own meetings during the course of the Conference.
Just as the first meeting provided an opportunity to air our views, the second will give
us the chance to make concrete suggestions for action during the period between the
Amsterdam and Berlin (1993) International Conferences. We hope that you will join others
from throughout the world. This historic opportunity can be the beginning of A World
United Against AIDS.
INTERNA TIONAL L.I.F.E. * PRIZE A WARD
The L.I.F.E. Prize is an annual award designed to provide increased exposure for the
most meaningful AIDS-related studies published in medical literature. The Prize, an award
given jointly by the International AIDS Society and L.I.F.E., the Association created by
Valentino Garavani and Giancarlo Giammetti in Rome to support the fight against AIDS,
bears a monetary award of US $20,000. The Prize, which was given for the first time
last year, is awarded annually to a published study dealing with the following areas
of AIDS research, in sequence: 1) Treatment (awarded in 1991); 2) Prevention (to be
awarded in 1992); 3) Basic Research; and 4) Social and Psychological Issues.
SUMMARY MEETING
On Friday, 24 July, from 08.30 - 10.30, a Summary Meeting will be held in the Hollandhal.
In this meeting, the Conference Track Co-Chairs will present a summary review of all
relevant data presented during the Conference in their respective Tracks.
CLOSING CEREMONY
The Closing Ceremony of the Conference will be held on Friday, July 24, from 11.00
- 12.00 in the Hollandhal. The Closing Ceremony will be largely dedicated to the ways
in which HIV/AIDS affects us as professionals and individuals, and will feature a memorial
address dealing with issues of grief and loss, a message of hope and life, along with
the passing of a symbolic globe to the organizers of the 1993 Conference.

A reception for all delegates will be
held following the Opening Ceremony
in the Europahal and Amstelhal from
18.00 - 19.30.
GLOBAL MEETINGS:
Sunday, 19 July 1992
20.00 - 22.00
Hollandhal.
Thursday, 23 July 1992
20.00 - 22.00
Hollandhal.

The award presentation will take place
on Tuesday, 21 July, at 13.00 in the
Hollandhal.
*L.I.F.E.: Lottare, Informare, Formare,
Educare (to fight, to inform, to form, to
educate)

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