HIV/AIDS Clinical Care/Treatment
AIDS Education Global Information System
AEGIS is the world's largest repository of HIV/AIDS articles. http://www.aegis.com
AIDS Treatment News Internet Directory
This directory is designed for both health care professionals and patients. It is a very user-friendly listing of resources in a broad range of topics, including AIDS treatment websites, clinical trials, treatment publications, online medical journals, international and multilingual resources, training and medical education materials, etc. http://www.aidsnews.org
AIDSinfo
AIDSinfo is a primary resource for U.S. federally approved treatment guidelines for HIV and AIDS. Guidelines are available for adults, adolescents, pediatrics, pregnant women and for the reduction of perinatal HIV transmission. These guidelines are regularly updated to incorporate new developments in the treatment field. There is a link to the PubMed database of biomedical literature through this site. The site also provides quick and easy access to information on clinical trials for adults and children. Both US and international clinical trials information is available. A valuable service is drug information from the AIDSDRUGS Database. An extensive HIV glossary is provided. Links to the CancerNet website for AIDS-related malignancies, and ClinicalTrials.gov - a comprehensive trials database - are included. http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/
Forum for Collaborative HIV Research
The Forum for Collaborative HIV Research provides in-depth reports on selected treatment issues. The Forum sponsors scientific workshops bringing expert clinicians and researchers together, and provides the conference proceedings through this website. Recent publications have included reports on immune-based therapies for HIV disease, and the risks and benefits of directly-observed therapy for treatment of HIV disease. http://www.hivforum.org
Global AIDS Program
The CDC Global AIDS Program website provides information on CDC's global AIDS actitivities, focusing on primary prevention, surveillance and infrastructure technical strategies, and care and support for TB, STD, and opportunistic infections. http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/gap
HIV InSite
This comprehensive website from the University of California San Francisco offers information on the medical aspects of HIV/AIDS care and treatment, prevention, policy, and international issues. Diagnosis and management of HIV/AIDS and related conditions, clinical manifestations, and other sections of the AIDS Knowledge Base textbook are accessible. A webpage on treatment resources reviews treatment access mechanisms and information resources for international/developing world settings. http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu
HIV/AIDS Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration
The HIV/AIDS Bureau of HRSA in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers a wealth of information on HIV/AIDS care and treatment, as well as provider education/training and consumer education materials. Extensive links are available through this website. http://hab.hrsa.gov
Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
The Johns Hopkins AIDS Service offers a comprehensive web site of HIV information and resources, including publications, medical education, provider and consumer interactive forums, and resources and information on treatment, epidemiology, prevention, and managed care/health financing. The monthly AIDS Service Update summarizes the newly published articles/findings in the medical literature. Conference summaries and Netcasts of all major meetings and key events are linked via the Events Archive. There are also links to international websites, and the Johns Hopkins websites for Infectious Diseases, Center for TB Research, Hepatitis C, and Antibiotic Guide. http://hopkins-aids.edu
MEDLINE plus
The MEDLINE plus website provides up-to-date treatment information and access to the extensive literature base of the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, USA. A comprehensive list of other internet resources is available through linkages. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aids.html
National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention
The website for the National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a primary resource for surveillance data and prevention information on HIV/AIDS, TB elimination, and STD prevention and treatment. Materials are prepared at multiple levels including public health professionals, clinicians, technical and laboratory personnel, consumers, advocates, and for use in corporate/workplace settings. Updated treatment information and guidelines are available as part of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, and Special Reports, accessible through this site. The CDC National Prevention Information Network, accessible through links or separately at www.cdc.gov/hiv/hivinfo/npin.htm offers a wealth of informational resources, including access to online databases. http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/nchstp.html
National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Division of HIV/AIDS
The home page of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Division of HIV/AIDS is a rich resource for HIV/AIDS research and treatment information, as well as HIV vaccine and HIV prevention information. Links are available to all of the NIAID-funded research networks and programs, including: Comprehensive International Program of Research on AIDS (CIPRA); Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group (AACTG); Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG), addressing children, adolescents, and perinatal transmission; HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN); Acute HIV Infection and Early Disease Research Program (AIEDRP); Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), and others. These research networks have been pivotal in defining effective new therapies, treatment and prevention strategies for HIV/AIDS and many opportunistic infections and malignancies. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/
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Selected International Health Resources
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The website for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria provides current information on the principles and processes guiding the administration of the Fund, and specific information on how and when funding applications may be sent to the Global Fund. http://www.globalfundatm.org
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) website has worldwide statistics, fact sheets, country profiles, technical documents and reports on diverse topics spanning care and treatment, program design and implementation, best practices, health financing and other issues. Special sections are available on UNAIDS initiatives, such as the Accelerating Access initiative for medications and treatment, the Africa Partnership Against AIDS (IPAA), and the Best Practices collection. Links to other UN Agencies involved in HIV/AIDS activities (World Health Organization, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, etc) are helpful in understanding multi-lateral and international programming targeting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. http://www.unaids.org
World Health Organization
Homepage of the World Health Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations with 191 member states. WHO promotes technical cooperation among nations on health issues, and carries out programmes to control and eradicate diseases such as HIV/AIDS with UNAIDS, host governments and multilateral partners. A broad range of statistical and technical information is available through this website, including WHO's work on worldwide essential drugs and medicines policy. http://www.who.org
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Consumer Resource
Critical Path AIDS Project
The Critical Path AIDS Project was founded by persons with AIDS to provide treatment, resource, and prevention information in wide-ranging levels of detail -- for researchers, service providers, treatment activists, and other PWAs. Emphasizes research, news and updates on treatment and prevention, consumer education materials, and links with several search engines for AIDS journal articles, documents and databases. http://www.critpath.org
National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project
Includes position papers on the latest treatments and therapies, information about HIV drug development, and comprehensive reports from conferences. http://www.natap.org
National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA)
Founded in 1983, the National Association of People with AIDS is a non-profit membership organization that advocates on behalf of all people living with HIV and AIDS in order to end the pandemic and the human suffering caused by HIV/AIDS. NAPWA is the oldest national AIDS organization in the United States and the oldest national network of people living with HIV/AIDS in the world. NAPWA provides user-friendly publications and educational resources for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS and conducts advocacy on a range of HIV policy issues. http://www.napwa.org
Project Inform
This comprehensive treatment website offers information ranging from fact sheets on hot topics to in-depth discussion papers. Much of the information is available in Spanish. http://www.projectinform.org/
The Body
Includes comprehensive information on safer sex, HIV testing, treatment, alternative therapy and reports from recent HIV-related conferences. http://www.thebody.com
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Communications Networks
Global Health Council
The Global Health Council is an information and advocacy organization that offers global news updates, newsletters, and a resource for exchange of best practices for HIV/AIDS and other international health issues. http://www.globalhealth.org
Global Treatment Access Campaign
The Campaign is a global advocacy network for communication and organization toward access to essential medications for HIV and other diseases. Current policy and legal developments affecting access to therapies are reviewed from an advocacy perspective. http://www.globaltreatmentaccess.org
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Kaiser Family Foundation website provides timely and reliable information on developments in HIV/AIDS policy, media coverage, prevention and treatment through a daily news summary, webcasts of key conference proceedings, and occasional reports on select issues. The purpose of this site is to provide policymakers, consumers, the media and general public current information on the AIDS epidemic. http://www.kaisernetwork.org
HIV/AIDS Development Networks
HIV/AIDS Development Networks promotes information exchange on HIV/AIDS through electronic discussion forums and providing communication support to conferences. Current issues and developments in policy and decision-making related to HIV/AIDS, and implications for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, are the primary focus of content shared over these networks. http://www.hdnet.org
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Others to Consider
International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care
IAHPC seeks to improve the development, quality, and access to hospice and palliative care around the world. Information is available through an on-line newletter, Internet links, bookshop, fact sheets, etc. http://www.hospicecare.com
National Pediatric and Family HIV Resource Center
The Center is a resource for health care providers and families on HIV prevention, care and treatment for children and youth. Clinical guidelines for antiretroviral therapies, and information on other care and treatment issues including adherence, nutrition, pain and palliative care is provided. http://www.pedhivaids.org
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