Program Supplement [International Conference on AIDS (14th: 2002: Barcelona, Spain)]

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Scientists and Health Care Workers
Committed to HIV/AIDS
The IAS Young Investigator Awards
The International AIDS Society, IAS, is pleased to announce that seven investigators have been chosen, one from
each Program Track to receive a special award. The presentation of the IAS awards will be made during the Closing
Ceremony on Friday, July 12 from 12.00 to 13.30, immediately following the Rapporteur Sessions, at the Palau St.
Jordi. The awards go to authors chosen among the highest scoring abstracts submitted by young investigators in
each Track. The awardees will receive a diploma and a grant of USD 5oo each as a token of appreciation.
Please join us in congratulating them - we wish them well in their continued HIV/AIDS research and other activities.
Presented by: Stefano Vella, Immediate Past President of the IAS

Track A: Basic Sciences
Acute cytotoxic T-lymphocyte escape is a hallmark of
simian immunodeficiency virus infection.
David H. O'Connor et al., University of Wisconsin at
Madison (USA)
Track B: Clinical Sciences and Care
Differential penetration of protease inhibitors [PI] and
non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors [NNRTI]
into the female genital tract [GT].
Sherene S. Min et al., the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill (USA)
Track C: Epidemiology
The evolving HIV epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC),
Vietnam.
Le Thuy Lan Thao et al., Ho Chi Minh City Provincial
AIDS Committee, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
Track D: Prevention Science
Uptake of a package to prevent mother-to-child
transmission (PMTCT) of HIV in Abidjan, C6te d'lvoire.
The Ditrame Plus ANRS 1201/1202 Project.
D. Koumavi Ekouevi et al., Project DITRAME PLUS,
Programme PACCI, Abidjan (C6te d'lvoire)

Track E: Social Sciences
Economic and social factors related to HIV risk among
adolescent females in Zimbabwe.
Megan S. Dunbar et al., UZ-UCSF Collaborative Research
Programme in Women's Health, Harare (Zimbabwe)
Track F: Interventions and Program Implementation
Sustainable community based approaches to address
the needs of AIDS orphans and their guardians in
Uganda.
Remigious Bekunda et al., Association Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud (AFXB), Luweero (Uganda)
Track G: Advocacy and Policy
Capacity issues in the Brazilian health system in
providing HIV/AIDS prevention and care.
Valeria Oliveira-Cruz, London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine, London (UK)