Health Information Resources on the Internet
AIDS
AIDS/HIV meta-resources |
Databases |
Newletters/journals |
Government sites |
State/local resources |
The patient |
Clinical trials |
Conferences |
Death, Dying, End-of-life |
Gay/lesbian perspective |
Related sites
AIDS/HIV Meta-Resources
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AEGIS (AIDS Education Global Information System)
http://www.aegis.com
News, newsletters, statistics, etc. Aimed at the person-with-AIDS.
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The Body
http://www.thebody.com/index.shtml
A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Resource.
"The Body's mission is to:
1.Use the Web to lower barriers between patients and clinicians;
2.Demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment;
3.Improve patients' quality of life;
4.Foster community through human connection.
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Center for AIDS Prevention Studies - AIDS/HIV Resource Links
http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/AIDSlist.html
Extensive listing of AIDS/HIV resources on the Internet.
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Critical Path AIDS Project
http://www.critpath.org
Critical Path AIDS Project was founded by persons with AIDS (PWAs)
to provide treatment, resource, and prevention information in wide-
ranging levels of detail--for researchers, service providers,
treatment activists, but, first and foremost, for other PWAs who
often find themselves in urgent need of information quickly and
painlessly. Critical Path provides easy access to the full range
of potentially life-extending or life-saving AIDS prevention,
treatment and referral information.
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Gay Men's Health Crisis
http://www.gmhc.org/
Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), founded by volunteers in 1981, is
the oldest and largest not-for-profit AIDS organization in the
United States. GMHC offers hands-on support services to more than
9,500 men, women and children with AIDS and their families in New
York City annually, as well as education and advocacy for hundreds
of thousands nationwide.
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AIDSInfo
http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/
Information for the general public and medical professionals.
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HIV InSite
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
Excellent site for indepth AIDS/HIV information
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HIVpositive.comTM
http://www.HIVpositive.com/
Treatments, resources, nutrition...
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National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project
http://www.natap.org/
The National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project advocates on treatment
and policy issues for people with HIV and AIDS with drug companies,
government officials (including FDA) and other treatment and policy
advocates.
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Project Inform
http://www.projinf.org/
Publications, hotline, treatment, outreach, education...
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Searchable Databases
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PubMed
http://www.pubmed.gov
Free database of medical information. Covers over 4 million medical journal articles back to the late 1950's. Good coverage of AIDS-related information.
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MedlinePlus
http://medlineplus.gov/
Free database of consumer-oriented medical information. Good portal to local, state and national resources.
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HIV Sequence Database at LANL
http://www.hiv.lanl.gov/content/index
This Web site provides access to Retroviral Genetic Sequence Data.
(currently almost 17,000 entries) retroviral nucleotide and protein
Alignments the annual compendia of HIV information Publication, and
Links to Related Web Sites .
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News, Newletters, Online Journals
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AEGIS Publications library
http://www.aegis.com/ni/pubs/
Extensive listing of fulltext newsletters published by self-help
groups, government agencies, and international organizations.
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AIDS AGENDA
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/agenda/agenda.htm
Published by the Office of Communications, National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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AIDS Book Review Journal
http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/aidsbkrv/
An electronic journal reviewing books, videos, journal titles, and
other materials covering AIDS, safer sex, sexually transmitted
diseases, and other related materials, published irregularly by
the University of Illinois at Chicago Library.
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Journal of AIDS/HIV
http://www.ccspublishing.com/j_aids.htm
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
Good source for epidemiological information on AIDS and other diseases.
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PI Perspectives (Project Inform)
http://www.projinf.org/pub/pip_index.html
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Medscape - Hiv/AIDS Homepage
http://www.medscape.com/hiv-aidshome
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Today's Caregiver Magazine Online
http://caregiver.com/
"Caregiver Media Group is a leading provider of information, support and guidance for family and professional caregivers. Founded in 1995, we produce Today's Caregiver magazine, the first national magazine dedicated to caregivers, the "Sharing Wisdom Caregivers Conferences", and our web site, caregiver.com which includes topic specific newsletters, online discussion lists, back issue articles of Today's Caregiver magazine, chat rooms and an online store. Caregiver Media Group and all of it's products are developed for caregivers, about caregivers and by caregivers."
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Government Sites
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CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
http://www.cdcnpin.org/
"The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). NPIN produces, collects, catalogs, processes, stocks, and disseminates materials and information on HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB to organizations and people working in those disease fields in international, national, state, and local settings.
All NPIN services are designed to facilitate sharing of information and resources on education and prevention services, published materials, research findings, and trends among users."
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NIAID Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/default.htm
"The Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (DAIDS) was formed in 1986 to address the national research needs created by the advent and spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Specifically, the Division’s mission is to increase basic knowledge of the pathogenesis, natural history, and transmission of HIV disease and to support research that promotes progress in its detection, treatment, and prevention. DAIDS accomplishes this through planning, implementing, managing, and evaluating programs in (1) fundamental basic research, (2) discovery and development of therapies for HIV infection and its complications, and (3) discovery and development of vaccines and other prevention strategies."
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State and Local Resources
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California AIDS Clearinghouse
http://www.hivinfo.org/
HIV Info, prevention, community planning, education. The California
AIDS Clearinghouse is the Department of Health Services, Office of
AIDS repository and distribution resouce center for HIV/AIDS
Education and Prevention, HIV Counseling and Testing, and the
California AIDS Prevention Campaign materials.
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San Francisco AIDS Foundation
http://www.sfaf.org/
Treatment, prevention, needle exchange, hotline...
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The AIDS/HIV-Positive Patient
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Clinical Trials and Therapies
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AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS)
http://www.actis.org/
Federally & privately sponsored clinical trials for persons with AIDS and HIV
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CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
http://www.CenterWatch.Com/
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HIV/AIDS Resources
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/aidswww.htm
A national clearinghouse for information about access to HIV
treatments sponsored by the AIDS Treatment Data
Network in New York. Has current information about how to gain
access to drugs and treatments which are
available through federal, state or pharmaceutical
industry-sponsored programs plus New York area HIV
Clinical Trials.
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Trials Search
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/tsearch
Online Guide to HIV Clinical Trials in the United States
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Conferences
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Gay/Lesbian Perspective
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Related Web Sites
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Safer Sex Page
http://www.safersex.org/
The site features information about safer sex (including the safety
of oral sex and the safer sex concerns of women), condoms, birth
control and participatory user forums.
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The North American Syringe Exchange Network
http://www.nasen.org/NASEN_II/index.html
"Dedicated to the creation, expansion and continued existence
of syringe exchange programs as a proven
method of stopping the transmission of blood borne pathogens,
especially HIV, in the injecting drug using community."
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HIV/AIDS Information Training Manual
http://www.mcphu.edu/~AIDSinfo/
Workshop manual and resource guide.
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AIDS Housing Corporation
http://www.ahc.org
AIDS Housing Corporation is a not-for-profit organization based in
Boston, Massachusetts that facilitates the creation of
housing programs for people living with HIV disease and AIDS.
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Community Servings
http://www.mazerdigital.com/servings
Community Servings is Boston's free, hot, home-delivered meals
program for people living with AIDS, their families, and their
caregivers.
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National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
http://www.health.org
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Databases |
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Government sites |
State/local resources |
The patient |
Clinical trials |
Conferences |
Death, Dying, End-of-life |
Gay/lesbian perspective |
Related sites
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