It's Friday night and it's the start of a long weekend for most Mozambicans... Rosalina, a receptionist for a South African company in the capital Maputo, was diagnosed HIV-positive early last year. "At first I could not believe it. I also did not want to believe it and for a little while I just forgot about it. But it's not something that you can forget. There is always something in your mind," Rosalina says above the music, but not without checking first that no one is listening.

Copies on CD of the WHO Reproductive Health Library #4 (2001) are now available. The Library contains 61 Cochrane reviews of evidence-based solutions to reproductive health problems and corresponding commentaries with practical recommendations. The CD is free to individuals in developing countries.

Concentration of internally-displaced people (IDPs) in camps and promiscuity are to blame for the increasing rate of HIV infection in Burundi's population, and the camps have become new centres of high infection rates in the countryside, the director of Burundi's national AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases control programme, Dr. Joseph Wakana, told the Pan-African news agency (PANA) on Monday.

The world congress in health informatics -
medinfo2001 - tutorials, papers, posters, panels and workshops detail is now up on the web. Over 400 separate contributions in 12 streams from topics as diverse as genome research to patient-centred computing, evaluation of inpatient cost efficiency, compliance with evidence-based clinical guidelines, approaches to decision support, multi-professional treatment processes, open teleheath and communicating effectively with patients.