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AEGIS
AEGIS is an online bulletin board system (BBS) that provides educational and informational resources about HIV/AIDS. Because there is no "magic bullet" to cure or prevent HIV infection, and too many people with or affected by HIV/AIDS are isolated by cultural, geographic, and economic barriers, AEGIS believes the answer to fighting AIDS and relieving human suffering caused by AIDS is in the transformation of information into knowledge. For that to happen, information must be easily accessible and widely disseminated. It must be used. This site is billed as the largest HIV/AIDS web site in the world and it is truly comprehensive in its scope and content.

AIDS Action
AIDS Action "is a network of 3,200 national AIDS service organizations and is the only organization solely dedicated to responsible federal policy for improved HIV/AIDS care and services, vigorous medical research and effective prevention." The site provides information on policy, Ryan White project, action, the press, a discussion link and links to a virtual vaccine. The site is also searchable.

AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS)
ACTIS is a "central resource for current information on federally and privately funded clinical trails for AIDS patients and others with HIV." The site provides information on medical treatment, clinical trials, publications, expert consultations, upcoming AIDS conferences and events, vaccine information, and links to related web sites.

AIDS Information and Treatments from Johns Hopkins University
This JHU site contains information on HIV/AIDS including links to: publications, epidemiology, prevention, treatment, managed care issues, and resources.

AIDS Law Project (ALP)
The ALP is at Wits University Center (South Africa) for Applied Legal Studies. It is an organization that specializes in helping people with HIV/AIDS deal with these problems. They research many of the difficult social, legal, and human rights issues around AIDS. They use their research to develop law, policies, and "best practice" recommendations on questions such as AIDS and employment, AIDS and pregnancy, AIDS and development, and AIDS and women.

AIDS Virtual Library
This site is a major resource for HIV/AIDS information. It contains links to fundraising organizations, health care topics, alternative treatments & spirituality, conferences, treatments, online periodicals, reference and drug trials as well as links to other web sites about HIV/AIDS.

CDC National Prevention Information Network
This network is a service of the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention. The site contains links to each of these diseases, with additional resources linked on the disease page.

Communicable Disease Prevention & Control (CDPC)
The CDPC "provides summaries and full text of communicable disease reports available on the Internet." The side includes links to current global, regional and country estimates and projections regarding HIV/AIDS incidence and prevalence.

Family Health International (FHI)
FHI "works to improve reproductive and family health around the world through biomedical and social science research, innovative health service delivery interventions, training and information programs." Some of their program areas include: family planning, HIV/AIDS and STDs, Women's Health and infectious disease. Their page is accessible in French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic.

Health Cares Exchange Initiatives, Inc. (HCEI)
"HCEI's mission is to create supportive inclusive networks for caregivers, including AIDS caregivers, in diversely affected geographic areas and then foster information and personnel exchanges between them. HCEI works to encourage caregiver collaboration, enhance community-based care, and educate caregivers about stress management."

Health Poll Search
Health Poll Search is a searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues that allows users to know what Americans think about health issues, as well as what Americans have thought about health issues over time. Health Poll Search is the result of a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut. The Roper Center houses an archive of more than 350,000 public opinion questions dating back to 1935. The Health Poll Search archive covers 29 topics and more than 300 subtopics, and holds more than 60,000 questions on health issues from health care surveys that have included questions on health. These questions provide information on public perceptions of HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, health policy and health reform, Medicare and Medicaid, women's health, the uninsured, minority health, and children's health. Response percentages and source information are provided for all questions.

HIV Insite: Gateway to AIDS Knowledge
Sponsored by the University of California San Francisco, HIV Insite: Gateway to AIDS Knowledge provides HIV/AIDS resources. The site contains links to medical treatments, prevention, social/policy, statistics, maps, topics and links. The site is also available in Spanish.

HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database
The HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database "was developed and is maintained by the Health Studies Branch of the US Bureau of the Census. It is a compilation of information from studies appearing in medical and scientific literature, presented at international conferences, and appearing in the press." In addition to the links to related sites and the surveillance information, the site provides software (and the installation instructions) for the surveillance database.

HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service
ATIS is the sister site to ACTIS (the government sponsored site for HIV/AIDS clinical trials). ATIS provides information on treatment guidelines, new treatment information, links to treatments, and a phone line staffed by specialists to answer HIV treatment option questions.

Minority HIV/AIDS Initiative
Resource for information on HIV/AIDS and its effect on racial and ethnic minority communities from the DHHS Office of Minority Affairs, specifically Asian/American & Pacific Islanders, Hispanic, American Indian, and African America. The site also contains links to statistics, federal clearinghouses, health links, publications and conferences.

National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project (NATAP)
NATAP "strives to provide the very latest in HIV drug development, research and treatment information." Their site has links to newsletters, reports, radio shows, article archive, and other links.

National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention (NCHSTP)
This center contains resources for HIV, STDs, and TB prevention. The site contains information from the CDC as well as links to other related sites.

Positive Directions
Positive Directions is a grassroots, nonprofit human services organization whose mission is to improve the quality and longevity of life for people living with HIV and AIDS. They provide information, support, counseling, advocacy and access to community resources for all HIV-positive people. They also monitor advances in medical treatment and seek to effect changes in policy. Their site contains links to their programs, upcoming events, a newsletter and volunteering/donating opportunities.

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