AIDS

Latest News
• Global AIDS Alliance Launched (03/29/2001, Reuters)
• FDA Clears Needle-free Device For AIDS Drug (03/29/2001, Reuters)
• Abbott to Offer AIDS Drugs at Low Cost in Africa (03/28/2001, Reuters)
• New Prime-Boost HIV Vaccine Strategy Shows Promise in Monkeys (03/08/2001, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Study Confirms Gender Differences in Progression from HIV to AIDS (03/07/2001, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• HIV Treatment Guidelines Updated for Adults and Adolescents (02/01/2001, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• More News on AIDS

From the National Institutes of Health
• Focus On: HIV-AIDS Connection (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Guide to NIH HIV/AIDS Information Services (National Library of Medicine)
• HIV Infection and AIDS (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Relationship between HIV and AIDS (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

General/Overviews

• Information to Live By: HIV/AIDS (American Social Health Association)
• What You Need to Know About HIV and AIDS (American Society of Clinical Pathologists)

Alternative Therapy

• AIDS Research Center (Bastyr University)
• FDA Issues Safety Alert on Unapproved Goat Serum Treatment for HIV/AIDS (Food and Drug Administration)

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (National Institutes of Health)
• ClinicalTrials.gov: HIV Infections (National Institutes of Health)
• AACTG (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) - Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group
• AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
• Canadian HIV Trials Network
• Finding Better Treatment with Your Help (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Coping

• How to Help Yourself (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Diagnosis/Symptoms

• Should You Have the HIV Test? (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Testing Positive for HIV (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Disease Management

• HIV InSite Knowledge Base (University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital)
• Medscape HIV/AIDS (Medscape, Inc.)
• What Women Need to Know: The HIV Treatment Guidelines for Pregnant Women (National Pediatric & Family HIV Resource Center) - links to PDF file

Nutrition

• Eating Defensively: Food Safety Advice for Persons with AIDS (HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service)

Prevention/Screening

• CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention)
• Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (University of California, San Francisco)
• Condoms and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. . . Especially AIDS (Food and Drug Administration)
• HIV InSite Knowledge Base (University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital)
• How to Protect Yourself From AIDS (Food and Drug Administration) - Easy-to-Read
• Researchers Identify a Simple, Affordable Drug Regimen That is Highly Effective in Preventing HIV (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• To Circumcise or Not? The Question of AIDS (MedicineNet, Inc.)

Research

• Big Picture Book of Viruses (Tulane University, Garry Lab)
• C-Sections Before Labor and Rupture of Membranes Reduce the Risk of Maternal-Infant HIV Transmission by Half (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
• Harvard AIDS Institute
• NIH Scientists Highlight Role of Macrophages in HIV Infection (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• New Prime-Boost HIV Vaccine Strategy Shows Promise in Monkeys (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Promising HIV Vaccine Strategy Identified in Monkey Studies (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Researchers Identify New Genetic Risk Factor for HIV Infection (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Scientists Discover Gene Alteration That Hastens Onset of AIDS (National Cancer Institute)
• Study Confirms Gender Differences in Progression from HIV to AIDS (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Study Finds HIV Breastfeeding Risk Highest in Early Months After Birth (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• T Cell's Internal Housekeeping Service Plays Role in HIV Infection (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

Specific Conditions/Aspects

• Can I Get HIV from Getting a Tattoo or through Body Piercing? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Can I Get Infected with HIV from Mosquitoes? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Depression and HIV (National Institute of Mental Health)
• HIV and AIDS in Pregnancy (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• HIV and Pregnancy: What Is the Risk to My Baby? (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• HIV-Associated Rheumatic Disease Syndromes (American College of Rheumatology)
• HIV/AIDS And Lung Disease (American Lung Association)
• HIV: What is Acute HIV Syndrome (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• High Rate of Heart-Related Deaths Found in HIV-Infected Children (American Heart Association)
• Lung Infection: PCP: How to Help Yourself (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Management of Pain and Other Symptoms (Beth Israel Medical Center, Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care)
• Medicaid and AIDS and HIV Infection (Health Care Financing Administration)
• Minorities and HIV Infection (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Painful Polyneuropathy: Diabetic Neuropathy, AIDS Neuropathy, and Others (Beth Israel Medical Center, Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care)
• Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia (PCP) (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Pregnancy and HIV (Health Care Financing Administration)
• Preventing Cryptosporidiosis: A Guide for Persons with HIV and AIDS (National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Parasitic Diseases)
• Preventing Infections from Pets: A Guide for People with HIV Infection (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Skin Conditions Related to AIDS (American Academy of Dermatology)

Treatment

• AIDS Treatment Information Service (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
• Approved Drugs for HIV/AIDS or AIDS-related Conditions (Food and Drug Administration)
• Attacking AIDS with a 'Cocktail' Therapy: Drug Combo Sends Deaths Plummeting (Food and Drug Administration)
• FDA Approves Kaletra for HIV Infection (Food and Drug Administration)
• HIV Treatment Guidelines Updated for Adults and Adolescents (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• HIV and Its Treatment: What You Should Know (HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service) - links to PDF file
• HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines (HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service)
• Interleukin-2 May Help Patients With Advanced HIV Disease, New Study Shows (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• NIH Clinical Center Study Demonstrates Dangerous Interaction between St. John's Wort and an HIV Protease Inhibitor (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• New Treatments for HIV Infection: Prolonging and Improving Life (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• PDQ-Treatment-Patients: AIDS-Related Lymphoma (National Cancer Institute)
• Shorter AZT Treatment Reduces Mother to Child HIV Transmission as Well as Longer Treatment but for Less Cost (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
• Taking Current Antiviral Drugs (University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center)

Dictionaries/Glossaries

• HIV/AIDS Glossary (HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service)
• HIV/AIDS Vaccine Dictionary & Glossary (AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service)

Directories

• HIV/AIDS Resources: A Nationwide directory (Medscape, Inc.) - free registration required

Journals/Newsletters

• Newsletters indexed for AIDSLINE (National Library of Medicine)

Organizations

• AEGIS - AIDS Education Global Information System
• CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - prevention information on AIDS/HIV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Tuberculosis
• NIAID Division of AIDS (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Statistics

• Country & Regions (University of California, San Francisco, AIDS Program at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies)
• Global HIV/AIDS & STD Surveillance (World Health Organization, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS)
• HIV/AIDS Statistics (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Children

• Children, Adolescents and HIV/AIDS
• National Pediatric and HIV Resource Center
• Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Spotlight on Mother-to-Infant HIV Transmission (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• You Can Prevent Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia in Children (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Men

• What About Men's Health? HIV & AIDS (National Women's Health Information Center)

Teenagers

• Can I Get AIDS? (Nemours Foundation)
• HIV and Adolescents (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Young People and AIDS (Body Health Resources Corporation) - prevention

Women

• Spotlight on Mother-to-Infant HIV Transmission (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• What Are Women's HIV Prevention Needs? (Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco)
• Women and HIV/AIDS (National Women's Health Information Center)

Español/Spanish

• !Ayudate! (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Alimentos y Agua sin Riesgos (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Aprende Sobre La Toxoplasmosis o Infeccion del Cerebro (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Aprende Sobre el Citomegalovirus (CMV) Relacionado con el Sida (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Aprende Sobre la Pulmonía Pneumocystis Carinii (PCP) (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Aprende Sobre la Tuberculosis Relacionada con el VIH (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Aprende Sobre las Enfermedades Asociadas con el SIDA? (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Conexion entre TB y VIH (el Virus del SIDA) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Cómo se Toman los Medicamentos Actuales Contra el Virus (University of New Mexico, Health Sciences Center)
• Lo que Tiene que Saber la Mujer: Directrices para la Mujer Embarazada Acerca de como Tratar el VIH (National Pediatric & Family HIV Resource Center) - links to PDF file
• Mujeres y el SIDA (Project Inform)
• Niños, los Adolescentes y el VIH/SIDA (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• PDQ-Tratamiento-Pacientes: Linfoma Relacionado con el SIDA (National Cancer Institute)
• Prevención de Infecciones Causadas por Animales Domesticos (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Prevención de Infecciones Durante Viajes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Qué Son las Infecciones Causadas por Micobacterias? (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
• Usted Puede Prevenir el CMV (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Usted Puede Prevenir el MAC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Usted Puede Prevenir la PCP en Adultos y Adolescentes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Usted Puede Prevenir la PCP en los Niños (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Usted Puede Prevenir la Toxoplasmosis (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• VIH y el SIDA en el Embarazo (March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation)
• Viviendo Con el VIH/SIDA (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• ¿Te Deberías Hacer la Prueba del VIH? (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)