Consumer Health: HIV/AIDS

This site produced by the UCSF Center for HIV Information offers comprehensive, up to date information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and policy. Areas of coverage include getting tested, recent diagnosis and living with HIV/AIDS, treatment decisions and specific populations.

Project Inform of San Francisco offers information about treatment and HIV monitoring for people living with HIV/AIDS, their caregivers, and their healthcare and service providers. Project Inform has helped make safe and effective HIV medications available, educated hundreds of thousands of HIV-positive individuals about care and treatment, and advocated for funding for HIV programs.

The San Francisco AIDS Foundation offers information on dealing with HIV as well as quality of life programs for people living with HIV/AIDS. The San Francisco AIDS Foundation also works to reduce the number of new infections through prevention programs.

HIVinfo, produced by the NIH, offers information on treatment guidelines, drugs, clinical trials, vaccines, and other HIV-related health topics.

This center is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and offers information on condom effectiveness, health disparities between population groups, and state data profiles of STDs.

A fascinating PBS Frontline documentary series on the history and spread of the AIDS epidemic, with all four hours freely available for viewing on the PBS website.