With content relevant to today’s questions, the IAS conference agenda focuses on addressing the challenges of expanding treatment and prevention in resource-limited settings.

The programme covers basic, clinical and prevention science. An additional new 'Operations Research' track looks at how people are developing evidence-based prevention, treatment and care programmes and policy.

As the official provider of online news coverage for the IAS conference, NAM is committed to ensuring you won’t miss out on the research and discussions generated in Cape Town – helping you turn the research into practice. Here’s the range of services that will be available to help you get the most out of the conference.

NAM’s editors will be writing daily news reports on all of the major conference sessions, and each day during the conference week we will publish a bulletin summarising the key news, with links to all news reports.

This news bulletin is available in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Romanian. If you want to change the language you receive the bulletin in simply re-register on our conference web page.

Please help us share this information as widely as possible by forwarding this email to your colleagues and friends so they can sign up for the conference bulletin at www.aidsmap.com/IAS2009.

You can incorporate aidsmap.com news headlines into your own website, receive them in your newsreader or share them in other ways. Find out how in the news feeds and widgets section of our conference webpages.

New this year, as part of our expanded coverage: online discussions will be running for two months after the conference that will allow you to discuss key findings from the conference and their practical implications for your work.

This is a great opportunity for you to share your ideas and information about projects and effective work in action.

Clinical Care Options (CCO), the official provider of online expert analysis for IAS 2009, will be providing four ways in which you can keep up-to-date with expert opinion and review the implications of new data for your own practice:

Webcasts and audio of selected sessions will be available through the official conference website. Full abstracts and slides of presentations will also be available. Visit the online programme to review all sessions (abstracts and slides available after presentation).

NAM is hosting a stand at the conference where Sylvie, Zoë, Lance and Laura will be giving away a range of free printed patient and professional information resources. If you are coming to Cape Town, come and say hello at stand 301 - we look forward to meeting you and hearing about your work.

Even if you can’t get to the conference there is no need to miss out. You will receive the daily updates, you can join the online discussion forums and download your own copies of our free resources from our ‘virtual stand’.

NAM is an award-winning, community-based organisation, which works from the UK. We deliver reliable and accurate HIV information across the world to HIV-positive people and to the professionals who treat, support and care for them.

NAM's publications are evidence-based and reviewed by two international medical panels and one of HIV-positive people, which ensure accuracy, balance, relevance, and accessibility.