A brief guide to accessing HIV treatments information on the Internet
for people living with HIV/AIDS and HIV health workers.
The pace at which treatments information changes is rapid and keeping up to date can seem a daunting exercise. The Internet can be a useful aid in keeping up to date, in finding useful information resources and in researching a particular topic or item of interest. The volume of treatments information on the Internet is huge and keeps growing. Like all information on the Internet, it does not come with a reliability guarantee. This guide lists the most useful sites.
Safe surfing
The following sites provide useful guidelines for evaluating material found on other sites when surfing the net:
How to Spot Health Fraud A 1999 article from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Consumer magazine.
Evaluating health information on the Internet Information from the New York Online Access to Health website (NOAH).
Australian sites of interest
http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/nchecr/The National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research
http://www.ashm.org.au/The Australasian Society of HIV Medicine
Last Updated: 6 January 2010
www.google.comcan also be useful for locating specific HIV/AIDS treatments information
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