Kaisernetwork.org to HealthCast Sessions from 14th Annual National HIV/AIDS Update Conference

Log on to kaisernetwork.org for a live HealthCast from the 14th Annual National HIV/AIDS Conference in San Francisco:

• Friday, March 22 from 11:30-1 p.m. PT: "Politics of Prevention." Speakers include: Jane Silver, MPH, amfAR (moderator); Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); David Purchase, North American Syringe Exchange Network; Terje Anderson, executive director, National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA); and Frank Beadle de Palomo, vice president and director, Academy for Educational Development, Center for Community-Based Health Strategies.

• "Social Marketing: The Art of AIDS Prevention." Speakers include: Drew Altman, president and chief executive officer, Kaiser Family Foundation: South African Youth Initiative, "LoveLife"; Thomas Dima, Cable Positive: Television as a Health Promotion Tool; and Sandra Mullin, associate commissioner, Public Affairs, New York City Department of Health: Julio and Marisol "Decision" Bi-Lingual Subway Comics Campaign.
• "Global Epidemic Update." Speakers include: Kevin Robert Frost, amfAR (moderator); Bertil Lindblad, deputy director, UNAIDS; Sam Worthington, CEO, Plan Childreach; and Anne Peterson, assistant administrator, USAID.
• "Is the Money Drying Up or Does it Just Look that Way?" Speakers include: Scott Boule, appropriations associate, Office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi; Jen Kates, Kaiser Family Foundation; and Patricia Bass, chair of Communities Advocating Emergency AIDS Relief, Philadelphia, Pa. Moderated by Mark Winiarski, PhD, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York.