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The Resources for HIV/AIDS and Sexual and Reproductive Health Integration site at: www.hivandsrh.org (formerly www.fpandhiv.org) lists nearly 500 selected resources supporting integration of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and promotion of sexual and reproductive health. The site links to journal articles, reports, conference papers, news and training materials on topics including:

• Family Planning and Antiretrovirals
• Family Planning and Mother-to-Child-Transmission
• Contraception for HIV-Positive Women
• Community-Based Approaches to Integration
• Microbicides

The site is maintained by the Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (www.jhuccp.org), and Constella Group, LLC, with funding from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. For more information, contact: .

Registration and abstract submission is now open for AIDS Impact 2007. The AIDS Impact conference is specifically devoted to Human and Social Sciences in the field of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The last conference, held in 2005 in Cape Town, South Africa, attracted more than 700 participants from all over the world. The goal of the conference is to give more space to social sciences research in the field of HIV in developing countries.

Abstract Deadline: 22 January 2007 (abstracts should be submitted in English only and must not have been previously published or presented. They should be no longer than 300 words.)

For more information, go to: www.aidsimpact.com

One of the major challenges facing the continent is to gather resources and translate knowledge and experience into treatment and prevention programmes.

This conference at the Sandton Convention Centre, in Johannesburg, South Africa, seeks to address the consequences if business continues to ignore current warnings and statistics.

Register at www.aidsafricaconference.com

Dr Olive Shisana, the conference chairperson, has called for the submission of abstracts ahead of the event, which is set to take place at the International Convention Centre in the port city of Durban from 5 to 8 June 2007.

The deadline for abstract submission is 31 January 2007.

For more information go to: www.sa-aidsconference.com

The UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has released a toolkit for youth in Africa on how to use theatre in AIDS education.

This toolkit was designed for youth groups and is largely based on a workshop held in Uganda, that brought together approximately 30 youth volunteers from several African countries, as well as Canada and India to learn about the use of interactive theatre in response to the pandemic in English-speaking African countries.

For more information on this project, including similar theatre manuals developed for other regions in Arabic, French and Spanish, visit: www.unesco.org or email: