Director of the Regional Coordinating Unit of the recently established Caribbean Regional HIV/AIDS Training Network (CHART), Professor Brendan Bain, has been invited to give a one hour presentation to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS of the USA. The presentation is scheduled for Monday, May 9 in Washington, D.C. The Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS provides advice; information and recommendations to the US Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding programmes and policies intended to promote effective prevention of HIV disease, as well as to advance research on HIV disease and AIDS. The CHART Regional Coordinating Unit is located in the Department of Community Health and Psychiatry at Mona and is a part of the UWI HIV/AIDS Response Programme. The Unit facilitates the work of five national centres, two in Haiti and one each in the Bahamas, Barbados and Jamaica.