The following is a list of helpful Web sites that provide additional information about HIV, its treatment, and living with the condition.
The links below are grouped by the topic. Click on a topic below for a list of Web sites with more information on that subject.
In their own words: NIH researchers recall the early years of AIDS: Features compelling stories told through interviews of physicians, scientists, nurses, and administrators involved in AIDS research at NIH.
Global and US AIDS surveillance and statistics: Comprehensive list of links to global and US HIV/AIDS surveillance data and statistics.
HIV InSite: countries and regions: Global, regional, and country-level information on HIV/AIDS, including statistics, key indicators, maps, reports, and links.
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS): epidemiology: Includes global and country reports on the state of the pandemic and archives of documents on estimates, projections, surveillance, and reporting.
UNAIDS/WHO: facts and figures on international HIV/AIDS prevalence and incidence: A listing of UNAIDS and WHO reports and resources on prevalence and incidence of HIV/AIDS around the world.
World Health Organization (WHO): epidemiological fact sheets: Compilations of the available serological and behavioral data in a country.
WHO: global atlas of infectious disease: Standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels. Resource includes interactive database and mapping interface.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: HIV/AIDS surveillance report: Links to the most current US HIV/AIDS surveillance data published annually.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: statistics and trends in HIV and AIDS in the United States: Includes basic statistics and links to slide sets (pdf and PowerPoint) that display visual summaries of US HIV/AIDS trends and statistics.
Kaiser Family Foundation: state health facts online: Contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including HIV/AIDS, health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.
CELLS alive!: Includes interactive and animated diagrams of the intracellular events of HIV infection, from initial attachment of a viral particle to a CD4+ cell through budding of new viruses from that cell.
How AIDS works (How stuff works): An easy-to-understand description of the mechanics of HIV with animated drawings.
Surviving AIDS: see HIV in action: AIDS researcher José Assouline guides viewers through the life cycle of HIV in a series of sophisticated color graphics and QuickTime movies.
AIDS: the war within: Illustrations of the AIDS life cycle; images from an exhibit from the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
AIDS 101: How HIV is spread (San Francisco AIDS Foundation): An indexed overview of activities that do and do not allow HIV transmission.
Safer sex resources (UCSF HIV InSite): Provides links to research articles and additional resources relating to preventing the sexual transmission of HIV.
Instructions for using a male condom
Instructions for using a female condom
Female-controlled prevention technologies: related resources (UCSF HIV InSite): A series of links to research-based fact sheets, guidelines, FAQs, reports, discussions, interviews, articles, presentations, conference Web sites, conference reports, and additional resources for female-controlled prevention technologies.
Epidemiology and HIV transmission in injection drug users: related resources (UCSF HIV InSite): Provides links to research articles and additional resources relating to injection drug use and HIV/AIDS.
Women, Children, and HIV: Contains a library of practical, applicable materials on mother and child HIV infection including preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission, infant feeding, clinical care of women, children, and orphans, plus up-to-date news on HIV/AIDS. The goal of this site is to contribute to an improvement in the scale and quality of international HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment programs for women and children by increasing access to authoritative HIV/AIDS information.
AVERT: introduction to HIV/AIDS treatment: Provides an overview of antiretroviral treatments and links to more detailed information.
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): drugs used in the treatment of HIV infection: Presents an up-to-date listing of FDA-approved drugs for treating HIV/AIDS.
HIV InSite: fact sheets: antiretroviral and immune-based therapies: Provides links to patient-oriented clinical fact sheets on HIV/AIDS therapies (in English, French, and Spanish, targeting various reading levels) that are produced by numerous agencies.
HIV InSite: adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy: related resources: Provides links to HIV InSite Web pages on various antiretroviral therapy topics, as well as links to relevant journal articles, reports, guidelines, newsletters, clinical support tools, and patient and community education materials.
HIV InSite: US treatment guidelines: Offers links to treatment guidelines for various HIV-infected populations.
MyMedSchedule.com: A helpful, easy-to-use tool to organize and remind users to take their medication.
AVERT: HIV-related opportunistic infections: prevention and treatment: Discusses the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections.
The Body: opportunistic infections: Discusses the identification, prevention, and treatment of opportunistic infections.
AIDSInfo: treatment of opportunistic infections guidelines: Offers links to opportunistic infections treatment guidelines.
HIV InSite: fact sheets: complications (opportunistic infections and malignancies, symptoms, and side effects): Provides links to patient-oriented clinical fact sheets on HIV/AIDS complications (in English, French, and Spanish, targeting various reading levels) that are produced by numerous agencies.
The American Psychological Association’s office on AIDS: Provides information, training, and technical assistance on HIV/AIDS-related coping, mental health services, prevention, technology transfer, community collaboration, public policy, and ethics.
Sexual orientation: science, education, and policy: Features work by Dr. Gregory M. Herek, an internationally recognized authority on sexual prejudice, hate crimes, and AIDS stigma; promotes the use of scientific knowledge for education and enlightened public policy.
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