Websites
AEGIS
www.aegis.com
The most extensive collection of links on AIDS, with searchable electronic versions of many newsletters and a vast catalogue of news stories, plus discussion forums.
AIDS
www.aidsonline.com
An influential medical journal sponsored by the International AIDS Society, with free access to abstracts, which provide a summary of the key findings of research. Full text access only available to subscribers.
aidsmap.com
www.aidsmap.com
NAM's website. On this site you can find more original, daily news on developments in the world of HIV than any other HIV website. The site also includes completely searchable databases of HIV treatment and care, worldwide HIV organisation listings, and one of the most comprehensive ranges of patient information available on the web.
American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR)
www.amfar.org
A good searchable treatment database, excellent news and analysis and a nice simple design.
AVERT
www.avert.org
AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide.
Clinical Care Options for HIV
www.clinicaloptions.com/hiv
A site targeted at HIV medical professionals.
HIVandHepatitis.com
www.hivandhepatitis.com
This site concentrates on news and conference reports, largely targeted at medical professionals.
HIVInsite
www.hivinsite.com
The electronic version of the AIDS Knowledge Base, a textbook developed by physicians at San Francisco General Hospital. The site also contains databases on trials, drug interactions and side effects, as well as news stories and a library of reports on prevention issues.
International AIDS Society
www.ias.se
Website of the International AIDS Society which includes daily news. The site also makes available abstracts of conferences organised by the International AIDS Society including the International AIDS Conference.
Medscape
www.medscape.com/hiv-aidshome
Another site designed to provide doctors with continuing medical education on HIV. The site also provides daily news and conference coverage.
The Body
www.thebody.com
An extensive collection of articles from HIV newsletters and other publications around the world, and an exclusive “Ask the Experts” forum for you to put questions to the leading doctors.
UNAIDS
www.unaids.com
United Nations AIDS Programme - information about the activities of the programme, access to policy documents and records of UNAIDS-sponsored interventions; statistics on the global epidemic.
T-cell chronicles
http://www.tcellchronicles.org
Creating awareness and empowering the global HIV and AIDS community through the written word.
DIPEx
www.dipex.org/hiv
The DIPEX HIV module is a unique public access website containing video clips of interviews in which 50 people describe their experience of HIV. The website includes gay men and black Africans (the two groups most affected by HIV in Britain) talking about their experience of living with the infection. The website will be organised with 25 'chapters' on how people cope (e.g. mental health, gaining strength, sex, getting health care, getting support) and will contain moving firsthand accounts. It is being built ‘from the ground up’ using established methods of qualitative research and will be launched in late 2006.
