Acknowledgements
AIDS IMPACT 2007 was organised by the AIDS IMPACT International charity in collaboration with the local organizing committee including: the French Agency for Research on AIDS and viral hepatites (ANRS); the French National Institute for Medical Research (INSERM); the French Institute for Research on Development (IRD); the Federative Research Institute on Human, Economic & Social Sciences Applied to Health of Aix-Marseille (IFR 134 SHESS-AM); the Regional Centre of Diseases Control of South-Eastern France (ORS-PACA); the University of the Mediterranean (Aix-Marseille II) and two non-governmental organisations AIDES and SIDACTION involved in the fight against AIDS; and the South African HSRC. AIDS Impact 2007 could not have happened without the strong political, financial and logistical support of the Regional Council for Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA). Significant financial support was also provided by ANRS, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Sidaction that allowed us to invite speakers and young investigators from the developing world. We also express our thanks to the City of Marseille for its financial help. We are grateful to Gilead France for the gift of the Conference CD-ROM and for its generous financial support, as well as the other following pharmaceutical companies: Boehringer-Ingelheim France, Roche, France and Tibotec-Jansen-Cilag, France. We warmly thank Atoutcom and its team for its contribution to the logistical organisation of the conference. IT programming and support was provided by Yonatan Sherr. We acknowledge the contribution of Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, publishers of “AIDS Care” and “Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies” for supporting the Scientific committee and the publication of academic research findings from AIDS Impact.