Medicine subject guide - Links
AIDS
Databases | Government sites | University sites | Research centres | Organisations | Guidelines | Statistics | Clinical trials | E-texts | Newsgroups
Databases
NLM Gateway
Includes numerous NLM databases including Medline, Toxline, DART (developmental Toxicology) as well as consumer health.
AIDS Info
U.S. federally and privately funded HIV/AIDS clinical trial information.
Antiretroviral Drug Database
Source of information about medications commonly used in managing HIV disease.
Government sites
Center for Disease Control HIV/AIDS Prevention
Includes information sources arranged by topics such as Surveillance, Prevention and Vaccine Research.
U.S. National Institute of Health
CFAR Centers for AIDS Research Program provides administrative and shared research support to high quality AIDS research projects.
NIAD publications AIDS fact sheets and news releases.
National Library of Medicine
HIV/AIDS Information and AIDS-Focus Training Materials for Public Health Professionals.
University sites
Bastyr University AIDS Research Center
Activities include a survey of alternative medicine practitioners that treat HIV patients, and a longitudinal observational database (Alternative Medical Care Outcomes in AIDS) based on an extensive patient-completed questionnaire supported by laboratory records.
John Hopkins AIDS Service
For information on conferences, epidemiology, prevention and treatment as well as publications.
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Includes information on current research, national surveillance data, and research publications.
Research centres
The Australian National Centre in HIV Virology Research
The Centre is a government funded body whose function is to support and encourage collaborative research into HIV/AIDS within Australia. This web site contains information about the NCHVR and research being conducted by affiliated groups.
amfAR AIDS Research
The American Foundation for AIDS Research is a non-profit organization dedicated to the support of AIDS research, prevetion, and treatment education. The site includes an AIDS/HIV Treatment Directory.
Organisations
aidsmap
This site is produced by the National AIDS Manual (NAM Publications) in collaboration with the British HIV Association. NAM is a community-based information provider based in the UK whose aim is to combat the AIDS epidemic through accurate, accessible and
up-to-date information.
Australasian Society for HIV Medicine
Has links to guidelines, publications and conference information.
Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
World Health Organisation
Fact Sheets.
Guidelines
Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention
Treatment Guidelines.
Statistics
Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention
Basic statistics.
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
Clinical trials
ACTIS AIDS Clinical trials Information Service
E-texts
HIV Insite Knowlegdge Base
An on-line textbook of HIV disease from the University of California San Francisco and San Francisco General Hospital. Editors are Laurence Peiperl, and Paul Volberding.
HIV Medicine 2005
Fulltext available for download.
Newsgroups
Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Mailing Lists
These include lists for HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report Updates, HIV/AIDS Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Releases, HIV/AIDS Slide Sets Updates, etc.