The WIHS Woman

Web Sites on HIV
and
AIDS Related
Information

The Center for Disease Control, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention Site
http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/hiv_aids/dhap.htm

This site provides well organized and understandable information on statistics, funding opportunities, media/campaigns, and training, as well as links to published resources, and slides/graphics to aid in presentation of information on the epidemic.

HIV InfoWeb
http://www.infoweb.org

A service of Justice Resource Information, this site allows users to search for agencies and organizations in New England, and to obtain treatment information in lay persons language.  All treatment newsletters have been broken down into individual articles to enable more efficient searches, and InfoWeb collects postings from 20 email lists in order to post thousands of up-to-date articles and panel discussions on relevant topics.

Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

A gateway site to help consumers find health and human services information quickly. This site includes links to more than 1,250 Web sites, including more than 250 federal sites and 1,000 state, local, non-profit, university and other consumer health resources.  This site is not focussed on HIV/AIDS, but does contain many links to HIV/AIDS resources.

Medline
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

This is a collection of published medical information coordinated by the National Library of Medicine. Medline is valuable for students and

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Please see listing on pages 12-15 of public libraries that have public access to the internet.

The Body: A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Information Resource
http://www.thebody.com/cgi-bin/wihs/body.cgi

The body covers a variety of topics, using lay-person language. Topics include AIDS: The Basics, Treatment, Conferences, Quality of Life, Government, Helping and Getting Help; Visitors to the site can also create and share their own memorials to family friends, and colleagues.

Critical Path AIDS Project
http://www.critpath.org/

Founded by persons with AIDS (PWAs) to provide access to treatment, resource, prevention and referral information in wide ranging levels of detail, CritPath helps individuals and their health care providers to make informed treatment decisions.

HIV InSite
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/

A unique website created by researchers at the University of California San Francisco, HIV InSite provides comprehensive, accurate and current information on HIV disease. The site is divided into Medical, Social Issues, Prevention, and More Resources, and offers in-depth information to users with a wide range of backgrounds.

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