Links to other AIDS information

Also from CNN

• CNN.com/AIDS — Current HIV/AIDS stories and resources from our health desk.

Basic information

• World Bank — HIV/AIDS activities of the World Bank in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Caribbean
• UNAIDS — Joint United Nations program on HIV/AIDS
• Harvard AIDS Institute — Original information and links to HIV/AIDS research sites.
• UNICEF — The United Nation's Children's Fund tracks global issues facing children, including the effects of AIDS on young children.
• World Health Organization — Initiative on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections. News, publications, conferences, addresses.
• HIV InSite — News, medical and prevention information and links compiled by the University of California at San Francisco. Includes Spanish version.
• HIV/AIDS Information Center — By the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Updates, in-depth reports, conference coverage, library, resources for patients and professionals, information about treatment, prevention, and links.
• U.S. Census Bureau — HIV/AIDS surveillance database. Statistics compiled twice a year from various sources to track HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
• CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention — Range of basic information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• AIDS.org — Worldwide guide including late-breaking news of treatments, related links, information about continuing education programs for physicians, online bookstore and list of discussion forums.
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration — Includes list of approved HIV/AIDS therapeutics, chronology of major events since 1981, press releases, speeches, congressional testimony.
• HIV InfoWeb — Online library of Massachusetts Department of Public Health AIDS Bureau
• AIDSmap — Partnership project of the National AIDS Manual, the British HIV Association and St. Stephen’s AIDS Trust. Updated news and information on treatments.
• AIDS in Africa – News, views, facts, figures, information, related sites, sponsored by the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church

Education for youths and children

• Europeer project — European joint action plan on AIDS peer education to reach young people in and out of the school system. Financed by the European Commission. Includes forum, information on safe sex, location of projects, links, and downloads of European guidelines for AIDS youth peer education in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and Swedish.
• Avert — Information about education to prevent HIV infection for young people, plus information for HIV-positive people and the latest news and statistics.
• Voices of Youth: UNICEF — UNICEF has produced an HIV/AIDS Quiz for young people based on information by UNAIDS as of December 1998. Sections contain general information about the sexual transmission of HIV. Message boards for children and youths can be found at this address: http://www.unicef.org/voy/cgi-bin/zdisc.cgi?index_aids
• Chicago Museum of Science and Industry — Basic illustrated material about the HIV life cycle and how scientists are trying to stop the virus — from the museum’s exhibit, "AIDS: The War Within." Includes information from AIDS Daily Summary of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National AIDS Clearinghouse, as well as information on HIV testing (with a teacher’s guide).

Advocacy

• ACT UP — AIDS information, advice and activism.
• AIDS ACTION— An advocacy group working to shape public policy since 1984.
• Health GAP Coalition — -- Health Global Access Project (GAP) Coalition, bridging the gap in access to medicines
• International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) — Promoting the role and concerns of midwives, including issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.
• International Organization for Migration (IOM) — An intergovernmental body concerned with issues surrounding migration, including HIV/AIDS.

Technical resources

• AIDS Education Global Information System (ÆGIS) — Huge site updated hourly. Material from multiple sources compiled by a nonprofit charitable and educational corporation based in California and supported by funding from Roxane Laboratories and the National Library of Medicine.
• Medscape-HIV/AIDS — News and technical articles on research. Free registration required to read articles.
• Counseling Guidelines for HIV Testing — Published by the Canadian Medical Association.
• Human Retroviruses and AIDS Sequence Database — From U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Full nucleotide sequences information on HIV-1, HIV-2 and other human and animal retroviruses and related host cellular proteins.
• AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition — Organization promotes research and testing of an AIDS vaccine. Explains the types of vaccines being developed. Contains documents advocating vaccines and summaries of HIV research.
• PharmInfoNet Home Page — News and information about the pharmaceutical industry, including comprehensive listing of all drugs by generic and brand names

Programs in workplaces

• Rejoice Urban Development Project — A group providing medical, education and emotional support to people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS in the Chiang Mai area of Thailand.
• BRTA/LRTA — Business Responds to AIDS (BRTA) and Labor Responds to AIDS (LRTA). Programs of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provide materials and assistance to help workplaces in the United States set up effective HIV/AIDS programs.

Chats and discussion groups

• The Communication Initiative — A support service to organizations active in using communication for the advancement of development issues, including AIDS.
• AIDS Chat — Online chat dedicated to HIV/AIDS
• HIV and AIDS e-mail lists and USEnet groups — Comprehensive list of e-mail lists and discussion groups
• Fondation du Present HealthDev — Swiss-based organization sponsors global and regional Web forums
• Treatment and related AIDS e-mail lists — Guide to e-mail and USEnet lists

Travel

• Aids Info Docu Switzerland — Published March 1999. Contains a list of measures taken by certain countries against HIV-infected international travelers, collected by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. The list is available in English, French, German and Italian.