Web site name

Address

Description

HIV lnSite

http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu

News, reviews, CME, textbook
(AIDS Knowledge Base [4]),
gateway

Johns Hopkins AIDS Service 

http://www.hopkins-aids.edu

News, reviews, treatment manual

Medscape

http://www.medscape.com

News, reviews, CME

JAMA HIV/AIDS Information Center

http://www.ama-assn.org/special/hiv

News, reviews, CME

IAPAC

http://www.iapac.org

News, reviews

HlVandHepititis.com

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com

News, reviews

Physicians’ Research Network 

http://www.prn.org

News, reviews

  Journal

Address

 Description

New England Journal of Medicine

http://www.nejm.org

Full text since 1990

Annals of Internal Medicine

http://www.acponline.org/catalog/journals

Full text since 1995

Journal of the American Medical Association

http://jama.ama-assn.org

Full text since 1999

The Lancet

http://www.thelancet.com

Full text since 1996

British Medical Journal

http://www.bmj.com

Full text since 1994

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/mmwr.htm

Full text since 1981

Nature Medicine

http://www.nature.com/nm

Full text since 1998

Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences

http://www.pnas.org

Full text since 1990

Science

http://www.sciencemag.org

Full text since 1996

Nature

http://www.nature.com

Full text since 1997

AIDS

http://www.aidsonline.com

Full text since 1997

AIDS Research and Human Retrovtruses

http://www.liebertonline.com

Full text since 1997

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

http://www.jaids.com

Full text since 1996

Antiviral Therapy

http://www.intmedpress.com

No on-line access

Journal of Infectious Diseases

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JlD

Full text since 1998

Clinical Infectious Diseases

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ClD

Full text since 1999

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

http://jcm.asm.org

Full text since 1995

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

http://aac.asm.org

Full text since 1995

Journal of Virology

http://jvi.asm.org

Full text since 1995

  Meeting

 Web address

Comments

Conference on Retroviruses and OIs

http://www.retroconference.org

Sponsored by NIAID and CDC; abstracts
(1997—2000), posters (1999—2000), and selected presentations (1999—2000) are on-line

International AIDS Conference

http://www.hivnet.ch/mirror/aids98/ (12th); http://www.aids2000.com (13th) 

Sponsorship varies with host country; 1998 abstracts and selected presentations are on-line

ICAAC

http://www.asm.org/mtgsrc/mtgs.htm

Sponsored by ASM; abstracts and tapes can
be ordered on-line

Annual Meeting of the IDSA

http://www.idsociety.org/ME/toc.htm

Sponsored by IDSA; abstracts and videotapes
can be ordered on-line

Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance

http://www.intmedpress.com/resistance 

Sponsored by International Medical Press;
abstracts can be ordered on-line

Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy

http://www.intmedpress.com/lipodystrophy 

Sponsored by International Medical Press;
abstracts can be ordered on-line

(Various)

http://www.iapac.org/clinmgt/conferences/
conflist.html

A comprehensive listing prepared by IAPAC

  Name

Address

Description

The AIDS Knowledge Base

http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/akb

Textbook whose authors work at San Francisco
GeneralHospital and UCSF

Medical Management of HIV Infection

http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/publications
/index_pub.html 

Manual of diagnosis and treatment

Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults
and Adolescents

http://www.hivatis.org/trtgdlns.html

Guidelines written by DHHS

HIV prevention: (I) Perinatal transmission; (2) Occupational exposure; (3) Nonoccupational exposure

http://www.hivatis.org/trtgdlns.html

Guidelines written by PHS

(1) Opportunistic infection;
(2) Tuberculosis infection

http://www.hivatis.org/trtgdlns.html

(I) Guidelines of the PHS and IDSA;
(2) Guidelines of the PHS

lAS Anti-HIV Treatment Guidelines

http://www.ama-assn.org/special/hiv/library/
scan/jan00/jan00d.htm

Recommendations of LAS-USA Panel (January,
2000)

lAS Drug Resistance Testing
Guidelines

http://www.ama-assn.org/special/hiv/library/scan/may00/may00a.htm

Recommendations of LAS-USA Panel on antiretro-
viral drug resistance testing (May, 2000)

Clinical anti-HIV drug information
HIV InSite Drug Database

http://arvdb.ucsf.edu/index.cfm

HIV InSite Web site

Medical Management of HIV
Infection

http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/index_hiv_sitemap.html

HIV: Drug Interactions

http://hiv.medscape.com/Medscape/HlV/
Druglnteractions/index.cfm

Medscape program to check a drug regimen for
adverse interactions

HIV Treatment: Drug Interactions

http://www.hivatis.org/druginteractions.html

Extensive pharmacological data

Physician’s Desk Reference

http://www.pdr.net

Comprehensive drug information, including the full
texts of package inserts

RxList

http://www.rxlist.com

Comprehensive drug information, including the full
texts of package inserts

National HIV Telephone Consultation
Service

http://www.ucsf.edu/warmline/

Case consultation for physicians, nurses, and other
health-care providers (“Warmline”); 800-933-
3413 and 415-476-7969

National Clinicians’ Post-Exposure
Prophylaxis Hotline (PEPline)

http://epi-center.ucsf.edu/PEPline 

Around-the-clock advice on managing occupational exposures to HIV, hepatitis, and other
bloodborne pathogens (888-HIV-4911)

Medical Matrix 

http://www.medmatrix.org/_SPages/textbooks.asp

Comprehensive list of on-line medical textbooks

WHO ARV Guidelines for Resource-limited Settings

http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/mtct/guidelines/en/

Guidelines written by WHO focused in resource poor countries

  Institution

Address

Description

NIAID

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/daids.htm

Guide to funding for individuals and programs (e.g., CFAR, ACTG,
CPCRA, HIVNET); links to NIH-sponsored projects

CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/dhap.htm

Surveillance data (slide sets), prevention research, patient brochures,
HIV testing guidelines

CDC National Prevention Information
Network

http://www.cdcnpin.org/topic/start.htm

Contains >10,000 documents for patients and health-care providers

ACTG

http://aactg.s-3.com

Password required for ACTG protocols, technical documents (e.g.,
ACTG Virology Manual), member directory

FDA

http://www.fda.gov/oashi/aids/hiv.html

Contains an extensive amount of information on drugs and diagnostic tests; although specific data are often difficult to access, the search engine at ACTIS (Search Site page) is a good starting
point

  Database

Address

Description

PubMed access to MEDLINE

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

NLM bibliographic database

AIDSLINE, AIDSDRUGS, and
AIDSTRIALS

http://www.igm.nlm.nih.gov

NLM bibliographic, drug, and clinical trials database

GenBank and Entrez

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez

GenBank contains genetic sequence data; Entrez integrates sequence
data with MEDLINE and Protein Data Bank

Protein Data Bank

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb

International repository for the processing and distribution of 3-D
macromolecular structure data

HIV Sequence Database

http://hiv-web.lanl.gov

Maintained by the Theoretical Biology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratories; contains curated HIV sequence alignments, analysis research tools, technical reviews, and an updated compilation of drug-resistance mutations

HIV Molecular Immunology Database

http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/immunology/index.html

Maintained by the Theoretical Biology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratories; contains an annotated, searchable collection of HIV-l cytotoxic and helper T-cell epitopes and antibody binding sites

HIV RT and Protease Sequence
Database

http://hivdb.stanford.edu/hiv/

Maintained at StanfordUniversity; annotated collection of reverse
transcriptase and protease sequences linked to drug-treatment histories and drug susceptibility test results

AIDS Reagent Program

http://www.aidsreagent.org

Funded by DAIDS (NIAID); maintains and provides laboratory research reagents, including cell lines, viruses, and proteins

Anti-HIV Compounds

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/daids/dtpdb

Funded by DAIDS (NIAID); chemical structures, in vitro activity of approved and experimental compounds

HIV Protease Database

http://www.ncifcrf.gov/HIVdb

Structural database maintained at the NCI, devoted to HIV and SIV protease

EuroSIDA

http://www.chip.suite.dk/Eurosidaindex.htm

EuroSIDA study is a prospective observational cohort of 8500 patients in 20 European countries

Cochrane Collaborative Review
Group on HIV Infection and AIDS

http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/cochrane

Systematic reviews on the prevention and treatment of HIV

  Institution

 Address

Description

ACTIS (NIAID)

http://www.actis.org

Summary of completed and ongoing trials; uses AIDSDRUGS and AIDS-TRIALS databases; excellent FDA search engine

AM FAR

http://www.amfar.org

News updates pertaining to clinical trials; patient information, including AIDS
Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) and expanded-access protocols

HIV InSite Trials Search

http://never.ucsf.edu:8000/tsearch

Clinical trials database search

AIDS Treatment Data Network

http://www.aidsinfonyc.org/network

Browsable guide for health-care personnel and patients

Canadian HIV Trials Network

http://www.hivnet.ubc.ca/ctn.html

Ongoing and completed clinical trials in Canada

lnitio Trial

http://www.ctu.mrc.ac.uk/initio

Large European multicenter, randomized trial of treatment protocols for previously untreated, HI V-infected individuals

  Name

Address

Description

HIV ATIS: Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms

http://www.hivatis.org/glossary

3d edition of the DHHS HI V/AIDS glossary

Positive Living

http://hivatis.org/geninfo.html

American Social Health Association booklet for newly diagnosed persons

Aidsmap

http://www.aidsmap.com

British HIV Association~ excellent clinical review

Project Inform

http://www.projinform.org

Patient education

Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS

http://www.sfaf.org/beta

Patient education

Aegis

http://www.aegis.com

News, patient newsletters, physician-oriented review journals

The Body

http://www.thebody.com

News, reviews, ‘Insight from Experts”

National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project

http://www.natap.org

Comprehensive, sophisticated coverage of meetings on HIV treatment

  Topic, Web site name

Address

Description

Malignancy CancerNet

http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/Cancer_Types/
AIDS~ReIated_Malignancies.shtml

Information on Kaposi’s sarcoma and Iymphoma;
for health-care professionals and patients

OncoL ink

http://oncolink.upenn.edu/disease/kaposi/

Information on Kaposi’s sarcoma and lymphoma;
for health-care professionals and patients

Hepatitis
HlVandHepatitis.com

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com

News and summaries of selected topics related to
HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C

CDC: Viral Hepatitis

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/

CDC site on hepatitis

Drug resistance
HlVresistance.com

http://www.hivresistance.com

Short reviews on selected aspects of drug resistance for physicians and lay persons (see also
the HIV Sequence Database at Los Alamos and
the HIV RT and Protease Sequence Database
at Stanford, in the Research Databases section;
table 6)

HIV InSite: Resistance
& Resistance Testing

http://HIVInSite.ucsf.edu/topics/links
/resistance_resistance_testing/

Links to the web pages of the companies providing resistance assays

Women & HIV Infection

http://www.hivpositive.com/f-Women/9-WomenHIV/9-women00.html

Summary of issues specific to HI V-infected women

Women The Body

http://www.thebody.com/whatis/women.shtml

Summary of issues specific to HI V-infected women

Primary HIV infection

http://aiedrp.fhcrc.org

NIH Acute HIV Infection and Early Disease Research Program

Clinical, radiological, and
microscopic images

http://members.xoom.it/AlDSimaging/
contents.htm

Clinical, radiographic, and microscopic AIDS imaging (Italian and English)

Oral Health

http://www.HIVdent.org/main.htm