HIV information
AIDS Channel the OneWorld network brings together more than 1,600 organisations from across the globe to promote sustainable development, social justice and human rights. It produced the AIDSchannel.org from its centre in Zambia. This multimedia web portal on issues relating to HIV aims to promote understanding, knowledge sharing, and action on AIDS as a development, social, economic, and human rights issue. It features news, campaign actions, opinion pieces, in-depth analysis, events listings, educational information on HIV/AIDS, and stories from around the world.
AIDSPortal is a joint initiative of the DFID Global AIDS Policy team and the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development to support the exchange of information and knowledge among people and organisations involved in the global response to AIDS.
AIDS Education Global Information Service (AEGIS) links to a vast source of information on HIV and many useful links. Includes a daily briefing called 'HIV Today'. Also contains key topics, fact sheets, conference abstracts, news services, a law library, publications and more.
AlertNet is a news service that aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe.
Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP) is an ongoing effort to assess disease control priorities and produce evidence-based analysis and resource materials to inform health policymaking in developing countries. DCPP has produced three volumes providing technical resources that can assist developing countries in improving their health systems and ultimately, the health of their people.
GlobalHealthReporting.org is a project developed and operated by the Kaiser Family Foundation with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to provide journalists, researchers, policymakers and NGOs with the latest news and information about HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria worldwide.
Health and Development Networks (HDN) runs many HIV-related electronic forums that allow people at all levels to connect and share lessons. Theses include regional forums for Asia and Africa: SEA-AIDS and AF-AIDS, and topic-based forums such as Gender-AIDS, PWHA-Net, INTAIDS and Break-the-Silence.
www.hivpolicy.org is a free, easy way of searching, accessing and comparing the HIV/AIDS policies of countries in the Asia Pacific region. This database incorporates a regularly updated, fully searchable compendium of descriptive and analytical government, NGO and IGO documents, reports and analyses related to HIV policies.
id21 is hosted by the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex in the UK, and reports on development research, including HIV.
KIT Portal Governance & HIV and AIDS provides access to free, full-text electronic publications and other Internet sources on the mechanisms of interaction through which HIV and AIDS policies and strategies are developed, implemented, monitored and evaluated at different levels involving both public and private parties.
NAM provides a wealth of information on HIV across the world for positive people and the professionals who treat, support and care for them. It includes searchable databases of HIV treatment and care, worldwide HIV organisation listings, and comprehensive ranges of patient information. The Alliance is working in partnership with NAM to produce a regular electronic newsletter for health care workers and community-based organisations on HIV treatment in resource-limited settings.
Positive Lives is an international project supporting people living with HIV and challenging the stigma and prejudice that they face. Through photography, the project documents the impact of the global HIV epidemic and the responses to the fear, misunderstanding and discrimination that people affected by HIV face. The website includes stories and testimonies of people living with HIV, and further information and resources.
PlusNews is the United Nations HIV and AIDS news service. Established in 2001 to increase the flow of accurate reporting on the HIV and AIDS pandemic, the site provides news, anaylsis, country profiles and first-person testimonies from those living positively with the virus.
Source International Information Support Centre provides access to over 23,000 information resources relating to the management, practice and communication of health and disability. As well as the 'key topic areas' which provide browsable lists of key resources in selected subject areas, the Source bibliographic database holds a host of resources relating to HIV in developing countries. Source is a partnership of Healthlink Worldwide, Centre for International Child Health and Handicap International.
The Body is a comprehensive HIV/AIDS information resource, featuring information on the basics of HIV, prevention, treatment, events, policy and activism. An "Ask the Experts" section allows viewers to find answers to HIV-related questions. It also offers links to organisations working on HIV in several of the world’s regions, including Africa, Asia, Australia and Latin America.
The Communication Initiative Network is a partnership of development organisations seeking to support advances in the effectiveness and scale of communication interventions for positive international development. It produces an extensive website (over 17,000 pages), regular electronic magazines (highlighting issues, vacancies and resources) and issue and region spefic “windows” as into the website, including one on HIV/AIDS.
