(Menlo Park, CA and Geneva)  The International AIDS Society (IAS) and the Kaiser Family Foundation will provide worldwide online access to the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) taking place in Vienna, Austria, July 18‐23, 2010. Kaiser ‐‐ an independent operating foundation and non‐partisan source of facts, information, and analysis, based in Menlo Park, Calif., USA ‐‐ is the official webcaster for AIDS 2010, providing daily coverage of conference developments on its website, http://www.kff.org/aids2010.

In addition to more than 50 online webcasts of conference sessions, podcasts will be available for downloading in both English and Russian. Some sessions, including the Opening and Closing Sessions, will be presented via live webcast, while other coverage will be tape‐delayed by a few hours and available on‐demand. The webcasts will include sessions featuring former U.S. President Bill Clinton, South African Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, philanthropist Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

A daily video recap of conference developments with Science magazine’s Jon Cohen will also be available. An outline of scheduled coverage is available at kff.org.

Read the full news release at aids2010.org.

More information about the 18th International AIDS Conference, including the latest program details, is available at aids2010.org.