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One: Listen, Learn, Live! Children and young people need to know facts about AIDS, sexuality, and death which are appropriate for their age level. Even young children have heard of AIDS and may be scared because of misinformation. Answer their questions openly. With younger children, do not give them more information than they are asking for or complex explanations. Tell them that it is safe to be friends with people with AIDS, to play with them, talk with them, hug them.
ALL: LISTEN, LEARN, LIVE!
Listen to children and young people, hear their views and concerns, and understand what is important in their lives.
Growth House Guide To AIDS and HIV
Links to "best of the net" sites for AIDS and HIV disease.
Sources For HIV/AIDS On The Internet
A very good review provided by Concordia University Libraries in Montreal, Canada. Includes an overview of Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, a list of pharmaceutical companies on the web, activist organizations, health care, and just about everything else. Good coverage of Canadian resources, including some sites in French. Check this one out!
AEGIS: AIDS Information Global Education System
One of the largest HIV databases in the world, with 3.2GB of information. Powerful search engine cross-indexes several authoritative sources. Operated by the Sisters of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.
National AIDS Clearinghouse
The National AIDS Clearninghouse is offered by the U.S. government to help centralize AIDS information sources. The Clearinghouse's Funding Databases describe more than 1,000 current and archival funding opportunities.
Computerized AIDS Ministries
A collection of AIDS/HIV links with many international resources. Provided by the General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church. Site includes a number of non-denominational links for religious and spiritual aspects of AIDS work. You can search the Growth House database from this site.
Recovering from the Loss of a Loved One to AIDS
By Katherine Fair Donnelly. AIDS affects our entire society, and we hear from a wide range of people in grief. The author uses first-person narratives to explore the diversity of losses, emotions, and coping strategies. In addition to spouses and lovers, we meet a grandmother who lost three grandchildren to AIDS, and heterosexual women mourning best friends who were gay men. These personal sharings are combined with professional views to suggest approaches to grief that may work for you. This book will be of particular use to survivors living with disenfranchised grief.
Multiple AIDS-Related Loss
By David Nord. Through the personal stories of four very different survivors, the book helps explain why multiple AIDS-related loss has uniquely devastating features. Beyond explaining the problem of grief due to multiple loss, the book also offers suggestions on ways to heal from the impact of AIDS. This book focuses on the impact of AIDS in the lesbian and gay community. There is also much discussion about family of origin issues and the impact of the epidemic on hemophiliacs. Published June, 1997.
Listing of AIDS Hotlines
A compilation of AIDS/HIV telephone hotlines, with emphasis on the United States. Includes state-by-state listings.
HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS)
Provides information about U.S. federally-approved HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines. This service is a joint project of the Centers For Disease Control, the National Institutes Of Health, and other major U.S. organizations. ATIS is staffed by multilingual health information specialists who answer treatment-related questions using a broad network of federal, national, and community-based information sources. Includes links to related resources.
JAMA HIV/AIDS Information Center
A collection of high-quality resources for physicians, other health professionals and the public. Covers clinical updates, news, and information on a broad range of social and policy issues. Daily news updates via Reuters and the Centers for Disease Control, AIDS articles from the Journal of The American Medical Association, and other useful links.
AVERT - AIDS Education and Research Trust
This site, based in the UK, gives information and advice about HIV/AIDS and related issues, with many useful topics including sexuality, precautions, the epidemiology of AIDS, treatment, and an area for younger people. While covering the UK in detail, most of the site content is relevant to AIDS education anywhere. An exceptionally good treatment of how to handle sensitive sexual issues in classroom settings includes how to deal with homophobia which can get in the way of AIDS prevention efforts.
AIDS/HIV Online Workshop Manual
A searchable online reference guide to major topics in AIDS and HIV disease. Content ranges from basic "AIDS 101" to specialized treatment information. Organization is intended to be a public respository for source materials for AIDS training workshops. Major subject areas include caregiving, drug treatments, alternative therapies, housing, law, nutrition, psychological and spiritual issues, vaccines, sources for further information, and other issues.
HIV InSite
A collection of high-quality resources. Covers medical information, prevention and education, social issues, and community and research resources. Has a searchable database of HIV clinical trials in the United States. Offers free searches of the National Library of Medicine's AIDSLINE and BIOETHICSLINE databases. Republishes the day's top HIV/AIDS related news stories from the Centers for Disease Control in a searchable database format. Offers free home pages for AIDS agencies.
Clinical Care Options For HIV
An impressive site that should be on the short list for medical professionals working with HIV disease. Content is peer-reviewed by a medical advisory board which includes many internationally-known AIDS physicians. Provides detailed, current coverage of a broad range of HIV clinical care topics. Offers a set of "Continuum of Care" CME modules targeted at frontline HIV professionals; modules cover fundamental issues in HIV management, opportunistic infections, nutrition and wasting (relevant to palliative nutrition for advanced AIDS), women's issues, and much more. Site content includes HTML versions of major guidelines on HIV therapy. Also has news coverage of major AIDS conferences of interest to clinical providers.
The HIV Zone II
A site provided by Tony Gardner, who has been living with AIDS for the past twelve years. The site is connected to a webring of PWA sites. A simple "AIDS 101" section gives clear answers to common questions. Also offers links, safer sex suggestions, statistics, and personal experience. You can search the Growth House database from this site.
AIDS: Answers To Questions Kids Ask
By Barbara Christie-Dever. An informative and potentially life-saving book for middle school students about HIV and AIDS, this text uses an easy-to-understand question and answer format. It includes essential facts about the risks and dangers of infection, plus extended activities to develop skills in saying "no" and to increase awareness.
AIDS: What Teens Need To Know
By Barbara Christie-Dever. An informative and potentially life-saving book for high school students about HIV and AIDS, this text uses an easy-to-understand question and answer format. It includes essential facts about the risks and dangers of infection, extended activities to develop skills in saying "no" and to increase awareness, and biography sketches of Ryan White, Magic Johnson and others.
International Association Of Physicians In AIDS Care
A collection of high-quality AIDS and HIV resources for physicians, other health professionals and the public. Includes a number of online articles that will be of interest to anyone needing an overview of common medical care issues. Updated regularly with noteworthy medical news. Also publishes a significant professional journal which you can subscribe to.
Surviving The Fall
Dr. Peter A. Selwyn, a well-known researcher and clinician in the area of HIV and drug abuse, writes a moving memoir of his personal journey as an AIDS physician. Woven into the story is an account of the author's painful struggle with grief following the childhood death of his father. Overall it's a good read, noteworthy both as a look at the human side of medicine and as a chronicle of the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Published March, 1998.
Roche-HIV.com
The pharmaceutical firm F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., offers this site as a public education tool to facilitate better understanding of the HIV virus and HIV and AIDS treatment issues, specifically resistance and adherence issues in HIV therapy. Website has information on the HIV lifecycle, viral load measurement, news and congresses related to HIV therapy, Roche product information, and links to related resources. The site is in English but offers some content bilingually in Spanish as well.
PATH: AIDS and STD Control Programs
PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health) has managed HIV and STD-related projects in 35 countries. Website includes background materials on PATH projects, their interactive RiskAdvisor tool to help raise awareness of risk, information on condom use, and other useful features with an emphasis on prevention education and behavior change interventions. Good source for information on projects in Africa and Asia as well as other areas.
The Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
A well-organized collection of high-quality AIDS and HIV resources for physicians, other health professionals and the public by one of the world's leading AIDS research centers. Includes information on treatments, clinical trials, epidemiology, conferences, education, prevention, and other materials. Includes the full text of the 1997 edition of "Medical Management of HIV Infection" which represents the standard of care for the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service, and an abstracted version of the "Hopkins HIV Report," a bimonthly publication for practitioners who care for persons with HIV and AIDS.
American Foundation For AIDS Research
AmFAR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, AIDS prevention, and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy. Since 1985, AmFAR has invested nearly $150 million in support for its programs, primarily through grants to 1,745 research teams.
The Body
A rich multimedia HIV/AIDS information resource that has won many awards.
Women and AIDS
A compilation of the best books we can find on the subject of women and HIV disease. Selections range from medical specialty books to feminist political interpretations of gender issues in the epidemic.
Buddhist AIDS Project
The Buddhist AIDS Project (BAP) based in San Francisco provides information and referrals to Buddhist resources supporting those living with AIDS/HIV, including family, friends, caregivers, and people who are HIV-negative. Their web site provides links to related resources on health, spirituality, and activism.
Marty Howard's HIV/AIDS Home Page
A very comprehensive list of links, continuously updated. You can subscribe to many HIV/AIDS related mailing lists through this page.
AIDS Pathology and HIV Tutorial
Detailed medical information on AIDS pathology, including graphical resources. Available for downloading is the newest version of AIDSPATH, the electronic textbook of AIDS/HIV pathology ($10 US) which is approximately 576k (including text, tables, and references).
Yahoo: AIDS & HIV
Search Yahoo's comprehensive links to HIV and AIDS sites.
HIV Home Test Kits
Do home test kits to detect HIV antibodies really work? Read the FDA's fact sheet on which home test kits are approved -- and which ones aren't.
Celine's AIDS Resources List
An excellent collection of links with many international resources.
HOT - Healthy Oakland Teens Pr oj ect
Targeted at an urban, ethnically diverse junior high school. The project's goal is to reduce adolescents' risk for HIV infection and AIDS by using peer role models to advocate for responsible sexual decision making, healthy values and norms, and safer sex practices. You can download the entire curriculum from this site.
San Francisco Bay Area AIDS/HIV Resources
A fabulous collection of Bay Area links.
San Francisco STOP AIDS Project
Conducts AIDS/HIV workshops and support groups to promote safer sex practices.
Hemophilia Home Page
This site has been created by a person with hemophilia as a means of serving the hemophilia community, with a special focus on AIDS and HIV issues. Provides news, links to related web sites, and information about other resources.
AIDS and HIV information from the QRD
The Queer Resources Directory includes a great deal of AIDS and HIV information, with good coverage of lesbian and gay resources. The only problem here is a somewhat uninviting text-based interface that requires the user to dig for what they want.
People Living With AIDS Ring
A ring of websites owned by people living with HIV disease or AIDS.
Breaking New Ground
This detailed guide to the development and operation of AIDS housing facilities includes project planning tips that will be hard to find elsewhere. While targeted specifically at AIDS residences, this book also will be useful to planners of other types of special needs housing, including general inpatient hospice services. Betsy Lieberman, Donald P. Chamberlain, authors. Published December 1993.
World Health Organization Statement On AIDS (1996)
Overview of the global situation as of 1996 and a link to the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific.
Legal and Ethical Issues Raised by HIV/AIDS in Prisons
Includes a 220 page report with recommendations for jails and prisons, as well as many articles about prevention in correctional settings.
SIDA, en Mixico y en el Mundo
Una biblioteca electrsnica sin fronteras. This excellent site offers information in both Spanish and English. It has particularly good coverage of SIDA (AIDS/HIV) in Mexico, but the Spanish language articles make it a good site for Spanish-speaking users anywhere in the world.
Buddhist AIDS Network
Covers Buddhist AIDS/HIV projects, Buddhism online, and related topics.
