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Knowledge is power. Accurate and timely information is a basic ingredient of knowledge and is essential to people who are working to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. AIDS has spawned more literature, published and ephemeral, than any disease in history. Keeping up with this information is extremely challenging. From creating fax-on-demand and electronic bulletin boards to constructing gopher, FTP, and web sites, HIV/AIDS organizations have utilized emerging technologies to make more information available to more people.

This workshop provides an overview of electronic HIV/AIDS sources:

• Mailing Lists
• Online Databases
• The World Wide Web
• Usenet/Newsgroups
• Fax Back Services
• Electronic Bulletin Board Services
• Anonymous FTP

For people working in HIV/AIDS organizations, a suggested daily schedule is also listed here:

• Daily - Prevention News Update
• Monday - Mailing Lists
• Tuesday - Online Databases
• Wednesday - HIV/AIDS Web Sites
• Thursday - Newsgroups
• Friday - Fax-Back Services

* A note on the role of electronic resources in the HIV/AIDS information arena.