Some useful links
You will find below some useful links to focus on specific issues :
- Practice-oriented materials
- Policy documents
- Access to medicines information
- Epidemiology
- Organisations involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS
Practice-oriented materials:
Treatment guidelines
Drug-related problems
- Adverse effects
- Drug Resistance
- Drug interaction
Illicit drug use and HIV
- Drug use and HIV vulnerability: policy research study in Asia
- Methadone Maintenance Critical Appraisal on Bandolier
- Preventing blood-borne infections through pharmacy syringe sales and safe community syringe disposal (Article)
- US CDC - Pharmacy Sales of Sterile Syringes
- WHO Policy Guidelines for collaborative TB and HIV services for injecting and other drug users - An integrated approach
- Provision of sterile injecting equipment to reduce HIV transmission
Pregnancy and motherhood
- US HIV Treatment Guidelines for Pregnant Women
- Articke: Antiretroviral Agents: How Best to Protect Infants from HIV and Save Their Mothers from AIDS
- Healthy Babies, Happy Mothers: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Training Manual
- Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants - towards universal access Recommendations for a public health approach
Online Courses and manuals
- University of Arizona, USA: HIV/AIDS Immunology Tutorial
- MTCT-Plus Training Materials and Resources
- Online CoursesHIV/AIDS Care and Treatment: A Clinical Course for People Caring for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS
- Online mini-course on HIV/AIDS
- US HIV/AIDS Bureau Collaboratives Training Manual: Improving Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS Disease
Resources Center
- Eldis - HIV/AIDS
- University of Buffalo: HIV ePharmacotherapy Network
- HIV Testing and Counselling (TC) Services Webpages
- MEDLINEplus: AIDS
- Medscape HIV/AIDS Homepage
- University of California HIV website
- US National Library of Medicine - HIV/AIDS information
Policy documents
International policy documents
- FIP/WHO Statement on the Role of the Pharmacist in the Fight Against the HIV-AIDS Pandemic
- Health Professionals Issue a Wake Up Call on AIDS, World Health Professions Alliance (WHPA)
- WHO Policy Guidelines for collaborative TB and HIV services for injecting and other drug users - An integrated approach
- Provision of sterile injecting equipment to reduce HIV transmission
- Standards for quality HIV care: a Tool for Quality Assessment, Improvement, and Accreditation
National policy document
- The role of the pharmacist caring for people living with HIV/AIDS: A Canadian position paper
- South African Pharmacy Council, September 2003, The role of the pharmacist in the management of HIV/AIDS, TB and STIs
- Country AIDS Policy Analyses
Access to medicines information
- Sources and prices of selected drugs and diagnostics for people living with HIV/AIDS 2005
- Handbook on access to HIV/AIDS-related treatment
- Provision of antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings
- Economics of AIDS and Access to HIV/AIDS Care in Developing Countries, Issues and Challenges
- Surmounting Challenges: Procurement of Antiretroviral Medicines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Epidemiology
Organisations involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS
International organisations
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- HIV/AIDS Department (WHO)
- 3 by 5 Website (WHO)
- WHO African Regional Office HIV/AIDS Website
- WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office AIDS Website
- European Regional Office (EURO-WHO) HIV/AIDS Website
- Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO-WHO) AIDS Website
- WHO South East Asia Regional Office HIV/AIDS Website
- WHO Western Pacific Regional Office STI Website
- UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
- UNDP: United Nations Development Programme on HIV/AIDS
- UNICEF: HIV/AIDS
- The Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- World Bank website dedicated to HIV/AIDS
- ILO Programme on HIV-AIDS
- AIDS.ORG: Educating - Raising Awareness - Building Community
- AIDSPAN: Fundraising Assistance for developing countries AIDS projects
- Family Health International (FHI) leadership in HIV/AIDS
- Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+)
- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
- International Community of Women with HIV/AIDS
- MTCT-Plus Initiative (Mother to child transmission)
- NAM (community based HIV information provider)
- Réalta Global HIV/AIDS Foundation
- SIDAnet Europe - Réseau d'information francophone sur le SIDA
- The European AIDS Treatment Group
- The forum for collaborative HIV research
National organisations
- Canada:
- France
- United Kingdom
- United States
- AIDS Action
- New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
- US AIDSinfo
- US CDC Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP)
- US FDA HIV/AIDS Program
- US Health Resources and Services Administration - HIV/AIDS Programs
- US Institute for healthcare improvement
- US National Institute of Health HIV/AIDS Division
