General HIV/AIDS Internet Resources [Disclaimer]
Links to comprehensive sites that cover HIV/AIDS-related topics. The first place to start your research.Starting Points:
AIDSinfo
http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/
http://actis.org/
A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it provides the latest federally approved information on clinical research, trials, and treatments as well as prevention information and guidelines. Includes PDA tools, drug facts sheets, and more. Also in Spanish.
AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS)
http://www.aegis.org
The largest HIV/AIDS information website. Features HIV daily briefings, archives of HIV/AIDS-related articles, treatment information, from the US Government and non-profit organization.
Hardin MD (Meta Directory)
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/ (main)
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/aids.html (AIDS)
Directory of web sites containing information on popular health topics. AIDS section contains an extensive list of links to clinical images under "medium lists" as well as printable patient-education materials. Also in Spanish.
Further Research:
Dirline
http://dirline.nlm.nih.gov
A directory of health organizations, research resources, and agencies that specialize in health and biomedicine. Entries include contact information, overviews (abstracts), hyperlink, and medical subject headings (MESH). Over 650 HIV/AIDS-related entries. Use if looking for HIV/AIDS services for patients as well as models for your programs.
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
http://www.cdc.gov/ (main)
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/ (HIV/AIDS section)
Includes health and safety information, publications and products, as well as data and statistics on various health-related topics. Extensive section on HIV/AIDS
including: training materials, articles, links to organizations, etc. Also in Spanish.
CDC's National Prevention Information Network
http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/index.asp (main)
http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/hiv/index.asp (HIV/AIDS)
A separate branch of the CDC. Useful search of government materials available in hard-to-find languages such as Vietnamese, Russian, and Polish, etc. Also can search their database of HIV/AIDS web sites by keyword, etc. Glossary. Also in Spanish.
In-Depth Research:
HIV InSite (University of California)
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
Features The AIDS Knowledge Base, an on-line textbook, including references and related links. Useful for clinical information; extensive information on infections. Also in Spanish.
Combined Health Information Database (CHID)
http://chid.nih.gov/index.html
A bibliographic database of education resources produced by agencies of the National Institutes of Health. It provides titles, abstracts, availability, links to online versions of government health publications, and contact information for national and international patient support organizations. Type HIV/AIDS and a specific keyword(s) to retrieve citations to articles for which the Baystate Medical Library can get for program staff.