Links
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AIDS Bulletin - South Africa The AIDS Bulletin is a quarterly newsletter on HIV/AIDS and related issues published by the Medical Research Council, South Africa. It includes articles about the epidemic worldwide, with an emphasis on developing and transitional countries. |
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Doctor's Guide: Global Edition - USA This site is full of medical information on a variety of topics. The portal includes current news stories, unusual case studies, and a variety of medical resources categorized by topic. "Channels" allows users to search for all items on a given health disease or condition (such as HIV/AIDS). |
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Hepatitis.org - USA This site contains exhaustive information about hepatitis in all its forms, as well as current news about hepatitis and treatments. Viral hepatitis and hepatitis C, which commonly coinfect HIV-positive people, are assigned their own sections. |
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Hepatitis C: What Clinicians and Other Health Professionals Need to Know (CDC) - USA This is an online course for health professionals about hepatitis C, a common co- infection with HIV. While the statistics and demographics in this course are designed for an American audience, the transmission, diagnostics, epidemiology, and management of infection information is helpful regardless of geography. |
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HepNet - Canada Highly interactive, this site offers news, events, a quiz, and information for doctors and patients dealing with hepatitis. Factsheets about each strain of hepatitis are also available. |
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HIV/AIDS Information Center in Medicine OnLine - USA This site provides in-depth information about clinical management of HIV and AIDS. The site features extensive information libraries, an interactive multimedia textbook on HIV/AIDS, daily medical news, forums about common opportunistic cancers, and a comprehensive glossary. |
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HIVCME.com - USA While originally intended for continuing medical education for US physicians, this portal offers a good collection of documents and treatment materials organized by topic area. These topics include resistance, treatment guidelines, adolescent HIV, women and HIV, and general HIV. |
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HIVfiles.org- USA HIVfiles.org is an interactive website for clinicians caring for children with HIV, pregnant women with HIV, and their families. This site offers clinicians the opportunity to confidentially post clinical cases and to ask others to share their management experience, expertise and advice. The website enables users to contribute to dialogues with colleagues throughout the world about a wide variety of issues affecting the care of HIV-infected children and their families. In addition to case discussions, the site provides a forum for discussion of emerging issues and topics of interest. |
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International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care - International IAPAC designs advocacy strategies to improve the quality of care for those living with HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections. The site contains a wealth of information on policy, healthcare access, human rights, and economics for those living with HIV/AIDS, as well as clinical management, diagnostics, and ethical considerations for doctors who care for patients with HIV/AIDS. IAPAC produces a monthly newsletter, a journal, and other tools for physicians. |
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JAMA HIV/AIDS Professional Resource Center - USA This site features in-depth news reports, journal articles, Internet websites, and treatment guidelines. All material on this site is high-quality clinical information and is scientifically rigorous - most information is extracted from JAMA itself or affiliated publications. This website is by no means comprehensive for this reason, but the information is of high quality. |
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Johns Hopkins AIDS Service - USA This site, hosted by one of the premier medical institutions in the United States, is highly clinical in nature. It contains a wealth of information for clinicians, students, and persons living with HIV/AIDS. The site contains current reports from scientific meetings, expert Q&A for patients, epidemiology data and modeling, prevention references, and US guidelines on many topics. The site also features free online access to the Hopkins HIV Report newsletter, the full text of Medical Management of HIV Infection, and free access to The Moore News Quarterly Patient Newsletter. |
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Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases - USA Another Johns Hopkins clinical information site, this website offers resources on TB, Hepatitis, and other infectious diseases. The site features news, continuing medical education information, and an antibiotic guide. |
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National Pediatric and Family HIV/AIDS Resource Center - USA NPFHRC is a non-profit organization serving professionals who care for children, adolescents and families with HIV/AIDS. The Center offers education, consultation, technical assistance, and training for health and social service professionals, including clinicians and program managers. The website features guidelines, factsheets, educational materials, question-and-answers, research, global issue briefs, and extensive links, among other resources. |
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Journal Watch: AIDS Clinical Care - USA This site has online medical journals on HIV/AIDS. The home page serves up links to the lead stories of four different titles each day. These summaries are free to all visitors, and the list is updated daily. In addition, the lead summary of every electronic issue of each publication is freely available on each individual title's home page. Journal Watch physician editors comb over 180 scientific and medical journals, review and filter important clinical research findings, then present concise medical journal summaries and insightful commentary. |
