Use these resources to learn more about HIV and AIDS, and to find out what you can do to help -- or to get help.

GETTING HELP: If you are concerned that you or someone you care about may be HIV-positive, or if you or someone you care about is HIV-positive and needs counseling or other assistance, this list of hotlines is a good place to start.

CLEARINGHOUSES FOR AIDS INFORMATION

AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS)

CDC National Prevention Information Network

National Association of People With AIDS

National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project

BASIC FACT SHEETS ABOUT AIDS

The New Mexico AIDS InfoNet: more than 100 fact sheets in English and Spanish, reviewed and updated very frequently to reflect the latest developments. Topics include HIV treatment, opportunistic infections, side effect management, complementary therapies, and basic background information about HIV.

SUBJECT-SPECIFIC INFORMATION

Ask The Expert
Forum on Safe Sex and HIV Prevention from The Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource.

The Viral Hepatitis Patient Forum, a feature of the Johns Hopkins Center for Viral Hepatitis.

Community
AIDS Action Committee: Dedicated to providing support services to people living with HIV and the people who love and care for them, combating the AIDS epidemic through education, and advocating for fair and effective AIDS policy and funding.

Multicultural AIDS Coalition: Implements culturally and linguistically relevant outreach strategies, group and individual education methods, and community building activities to prevent HIV in diverse communities.

The Body: Women-Specific HIV Treatment Issues

Women Alive: A resource for women living with HIV and AIDS.

Feminist Women's Health Center's facts and resources regarding women and HIV.

Belynda is Chair of the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA). She also founded Who Touched Me Ministry/AIDS Action.

HIV, Co-Infection, and other Disease
HIV and Hepatitis: Information about treatment for HIV/AIDS, chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C, and co-infection with HIV/HCV and HIV/HBV.

American Liver Foundation

Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy: Information about PML from Project Inform.

HCV Advocate: Information and resources about HCV and HCV/HIV coinfection.

Injection Drug Use
The Do It Now Foundation: "America's drug information connection"

Recommendations from the Center for Disease Control about HIV prevention among injection drug users.

Mental Health
Positive Living's Guide to Good Nutrition and Better Living With HIV.

For some gay men, testing negative has its own burdens.

Pediatric HIV/AIDS
Information about children living with HIV, perinatal transmission, and resources for families from the National Pediatric and Family HIV Resource Center.

Philanthropy
David Brudnoy Fund for AIDS Research: Part of an effort to raise $10 million in private and corporate support for basic and clinical AIDS studies at Massa chusetts General Hospital.

Prevention
A "Body Positive" article about white women and AIDS.

How does mental health affect HIV prevention?

Testing
Advice from Project Inform on what to do if you've just tested positive for HIV.

Treatment
AIDS Action's HIV treatment information and literature, frequently updated to incorporate new information on distinct drugs and co-factors in treatment.