The International HIV/AIDS Alliance and AIDSPortal have formed a partnership to develop PortalSIDA (www.portalsida.org), a Spanish language knowledge sharing and networking website for the HIV community in Latin America.

PortalSIDA (www.portalsida.org) is the online component of the Latin American and Caribbean Knowledge Management Centre. It offers Latin American organisations a place to access and share information about their work on HIV and AIDS and network with each other.

Through PortalSIDA you can:

- share, organise and access Spanish language information electronically, including policy, best practice, programme experiences, events, and jobs - connect with people and organisations involved in national responses to HIV and AIDS across Latin America - consult and provide feedback on key policy or programmatic topics.

PortalSIDA is linked to AIDSPortal (www.aidsportal.org), a global initiative that aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and networking among organisations involved in the response to HIV and AIDS. The AIDSPortal initiative provides those responding to HIV with access to resources to support networking and knowledge sharing. This includes the English language tools on AIDSPortal and the Spanish language tools on PortalSIDA. The AIDSPortal initiative also links PortalSIDA with other regional initiatives (currently in Southern and Eastern Africa) to promote global knowledge sharing, facilitate south-south linkages and enable HIV professionals to identify emerging trends across regions.

PortalSIDA will be launched at the International AIDS Conference in Mexico in August 2008. If your organisation has information in Spanish that you would like to share through PortalSIDA, contact info@portalsida.org, or login and upload it after the launch. Comments or requests for more information about the initiative should also be sent to this email address.