HIV & AIDS resources

The following are some of the on-line HIV & AIDS resources that I use and recommend:

• Aidsmap is a superb, award-winning, community-based website which works from the UK. It delivers reliable, accurate and evidence-based information about HIV & AIDS. All their fact sheets and booklets are reviewed for accuracy, balance, relevance and accessibility by two international medical panels and a panel of people living with HIV.
• HIV i-Base is a UK based, HIV-positive led, treatment activist group. Their booklets, which are available in several languages, are an invaluable resource for those on, or about to start, treatment for HIV.
• Established in 1982 – and founded in memory of one of the first people in the UK to die of AIDS – The Terrence Higgins Trust was one of the first charities to be set up in response to the HIV epidemic and has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV and AIDS ever since. The largest such organisation in Europe, they are an excellent source of non-technical information, help and advice about living with HIV.
• The Body is a rich, reliable and award-winning, US-centric, resource for all things HIV. If it has a failing it is that it attempts to do too much, which can make it very tricky to find the information you are after.

Please be very careful and choose your resources cautiously. There are many HIV & AIDS focussed sites available on the internet, but few of them are very reliable. Some, such as Aidsmeds, are woefully inept, contradictory and poorly researched (and the so-called advice given on their forums is even worse .. and, in my opinion, borders on the criminally negligent). Other sites seem to exist for no other reason than to pimp expensive and self-destructive cocktails of vitamins and other weird and wonderful potions / cures.