AIDS Activists/Advocates

ACT UP/Golden Gate
Press releases, research and treatment perspectives, and links.
ACT UP/New York
Links to other Act Up sites, calls to arms, Aids Cure Project papers.
AIDS Treatment News Online
Searchable archive of AIDS Treatment News, a leading newsletter edited by AIDS activist/advocate John James.
GMHC: AIDS Library
Gay Men's Health Crisis puts out an excellent, monthly newsletter, Treatment Issues.
Project Inform
AIDS activist/advocate Martin Delaney and crew offer perspectives galore about protease inhibitors, Congress, viral load tests, restoring a damaged immune system, and more.
TAG: Treatment Action Group
Newsletters and policy papers from influential, research-oriented activists.
VACTUP
VACTUP is an advocacy page for developing HIV/AIDS vaccines that includes a useful data bank with news articles, official reports, FAQs, and activism manifestos.

Basic Research

The Antibody Resource Page
What antibodies are, where to buy them, how to make them, and links to searchable sequence databases.
Cytokines Web
If antibodies can have a home page, why can't cytokines, the immune system's Big Brothers? Links, too.
The Garry Lab Web Pages-WWW Virology Servers
All the virology on the Web, with good AIDS page. Excellent links.
Harvard AIDS Institute
Overview of the basic science, clinical care, epidemiology, and what's happening at Harvard AIDS labs.
HIV Molecular Immunology Database
The HIV Molecular Immunology Database put together by the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Bette Korber is a comprehensive listing of defined HIV epitopes.
HIV Sequence Database WWW Home Page
The HIV Sequence Database is a museum of genetic sequences of HIV-1, HIV-2, and SIV.
The National Cancer Institute's AIDS Malignancy Bank Database
A collection of tissues and biological fluids.
Relationship between HIV and AIDS
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' comprehensive overview of the relationship between HIV and AIDS. A must read for anyone who seriously challenges what some call the HIV=AIDS "hypothesis."
TB/HIV Research Laboratory
Brown University's HIV/TB lab overviews their projects and educates along the way.

Clinical Trial/AIDS Centers

AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
Protocols and more.
Canadian Clinical Trials Network
In English and French.
Baylor College of Medicine's Center For AIDS Research (CFAR)
Details the expertise of its researchers and their publications.
CWR's CFAR
Case Western Reserve's home page for its NIH-funded CFAR includes newsletters and links to other CFARs.
UCLA'S CFAR
Description of program and listing of clinical trials.
UCSD's CFAR Homepage
UC San Diego's NIH-funded CFAR has newsletters, course outlines, and technical info galore.

Conferences

XI International Conference on AIDS Welcome Page
Advance program available plus tourist info, site maps, and press releases.
First International Conference on Immunology and Aging
Program from the First International Conference on Immunology and Aging, held in Washington, D.C. 16-19 June, 1996.
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Abstracts from the 3rd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections held in Washington, D.C., 28 January-1 February 1996.
Live Netcast of 11th International Conference on AIDS
After downloading the necessary software from this site, you can supposedly willl be able to watch a live netcast of the Vancouver of conference.

Country/Region Specific

AIDS in Mexico
Spanish and English listings of Mexican AIDS organizations, publications, and events.
ASA Milan - Home Page
Italian-based info warehouse.
Hong Kong AIDS Foundation
Basic information on AIDS and related Hong Kong area organizations.
The Sir Albert Sakzewski Virus Research Centre Homepage
Not much HIV/AIDS, but an interesting Australian institute at the University of Queensland that has good scientific links.
THAILAND HIV/AIDS INDEX PAGE
Links to statistics, news, and publications about AIDS in Thailand.

Drug and Vaccine Development

Antiviral and HIV Drug and Vaccine Development - Annual Review of 1995
From Antiviral Agents Bulletin.
Bio Online: Life on the 'Net
A bible on the biotech industry, from news, to resource directories, to a career center.
DNA Vaccine Web: Main Menu
Everything you ever wanted to know about this promising new vaccination strategy.
Protease Inhibitors: What They Are, How They Work, When to Use Them
Marty Markowitz of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center gives a comprehensive overview of protease inhibitors and how to use them.

Government

AIDS Patents Databases
Excellent site with a collection of searchable AIDS patents from the U.S., Japan, and Europe.
CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse
CDC's one-stop shopping boasts news digests, listings of clinical trials, treatment information, MMWR, upcoming conferences, and reference material.
Census Bureau's HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base
The Bureau of the Census compiles statistics twice a year from various sources to track HIV/AIDS in developing countries and lets you download 15MB file to your machine.
FDA/OASHI: HIV/AIDS Page
Lists approved therapeutics, has chronology of significant events since 1981, and archives press releases, speeches, and congressional testimony.
National Commission on AIDS Reports.
Reports from the now-defunct presidential advisory group.
NIAID Gopher Links
Dated, no-frills links to other sites.
NIAID Home Page
Press releases, AIDS reagent program catalog, info on the NIAID council from the NIH institute that spends more on AIDS research than any other.
NIH's AIDS Research Program Evaluation Working Group of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council
Reports from evaluation of NIH's $1.4 billion AIDS research budget.
NIH's CRISP Grants Archive
Check out all the grants awarded by the NIH from 1972-1995, including abstracts describing the work and award amounts.
NLM Databases - Listed by Subject
AIDS databases on scientific papers, clinical trials, and drugs are free but require signing up for a user ID and a password.
NLM's Internet Grateful Med
Access to Medline's Grateful Med, but requires user ID and password.
Thomas Legislative Information
Check out bills as they wind their way through Congress--and the ones that have already made it into law.
Welcome to UNAIDS
The home page of UNAIDS, the United Nations AIDS program that combines UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNESCO, WHO, and the World Bank. Includes estimates of number of AIDS cases and HIV infections, country by country.

Journals and Magazines

The British Medical Journal
Britain's version of JAMA offers some full text, news, press releases, and a searchable archive.
Cell Press Online
Full text articles and archives.
Discover Magazine
Popular science magazine with some full-text articles and abstracts.
The Immunology Today WWW Environment
A magazine that boldly attempts to charge for its Web wares.
JAMA - HIV Site
The Journal of the American Medical Association's HIV/AIDS Information Center offers abstracts and full text from select JAMA articles, abstracts from scientific journals, news, and practice guideline. The site will have daily reports from the 11th International AIDS Conference in Vancouver 7-12 July.
Magazines, Periodicals and Libraries
Collection of HIV/AIDS periodicals and libraries.
Medscape
Clinically oriented articles and full text from the journal The AIDS Reader.
Nature - International weekly journal of science
Although it immodestly bills itself as "the world's most prestigious weekly journal of science,'' it's a must read.
New England Journal of Medicine On-line - Home Page
Some full text, some abstracts from this venerable publication.
New Scientist home page
Full-text articles and archives.

Jump-Off Points and Miscellany

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AIDS - Basic Science
A dozen links to various basic science research sites.
AIDS Info BBS Database - Home Page
Ben Gardiner's stripped-down, searchable "treasure house of information about AIDS'' has been warehousing info for more than a decade, including news articles and BBS discussions.
AIDS Treatment News's Listings of HIV/AIDS Sites
An ambitious new site that aims to be a regularly updated jumping-off site.
ARIC, Inc. Homepage
Plain English descriptions of scientific topics.
The Body: A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Information Resource
Extensive collection of articles from various sources about combination therapy and protease inhibitors.
Gangbang's HomePage
Excellent links.
JRI Health InfoWeb
Searchable database of treatment newsletters and diverse links.
Marty Howard's Home Page
A tremendous collection of sites that is updated regularly.
MedWeb: AIDS and HIV
Emory University's eclectic and extensive links make this one of the best jumping-off points on the Web.
The New York Academy of Medicine's HIV/AIDS Information Outreach Project
Aiming to provide "support and information to community-based organizations,'' this site has good links, fact sheets, and directory of clinical trials.
ProCAARE
The Program for Collaboration Against AIDS and Related Epidemics bills itself as "an ongoing electronic conference.''
Tim France's Links
Dr. Tim France of the WHO has put together a tremendous list of AIDS sites, but they are in text form only and are not hyperlinked.
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: AIDS
Another jumping-off point for sites.
WWW Starting Points
The Scripps Research Institution's superb jumping-off point for scientific journals, societies, and universities.
Yahoo! - Health:Diseases and Conditions:AIDS/HIV
A smorgasbord of links.