AEGIS Nominated to UNESCO "Memory of the World"

On May 26 the online AIDS database AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information Service), www.aegis.com, was nominated to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's "Memory of the World Programme"; UNESCO created this program to encourage the preservation of valuable archives and library holdings throughout the world. AEGIS, build since 1990 by Sister Mary Elizabeth of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, is the largest AIDS database in the world. The nomination can be viewed on the UNESCO site at:
www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/1999/index.html.