A major conference on AIDS is scheduled for All Hallows College at Drumcondra, Dublin on the weekend of 26-28 August.
The organisers of the conference, AIDS Action Alliance in Dublin and AIDS Helpline in Belfast, aim to bring together over 100 people with a high level of AIDS awareness and experience who will implement an effective strategy to "ensure that everyone who is affected by the (HIV) virus has access to the support and service provision they need, and that people in Ireland receive the education necessary to prevent the spread of the disease".
Both organisations have joined forces to run the conference as Irish AIDS Initiative (IAI). IAI's aims, among other things, are to devise action plans covering AIDS on social, political, medical and personal levels and to produce a Charter of Rights for people with AIDS/HIV.
The conference will be workshop based and IAI intend it to represent the full range of experience of AIDS in Ireland.