AIDS Links

1. Factual links

   Some of the websites providing factual information on AIDS :

   • 1.1 UNAIDS documents
   • 1.2 Other institutions addressing AIDS
   • 1.3 Q&As & FAQs on AIDS
   • 1.4 News sites on AIDS
   • 1.5 Other websites
2. Partner links
3. Other Views

1. Factual links

1.1 UNAIDS documents

• UNAIDS, which provided the source for the GreenFacts summaries on AIDS, publishes an extensive range of materials on a variety of topics related to AIDS:
  www.unaids.org/en/Publications/default.asp 
• Every two years, UNAIDS publishes a new "Report on the global AIDS epidemic". The Report draws upon and publishes the best available data from countries and provides an overview and commentary on the epidemic and the international response. The 2006 edition was summarized by GreenFacts and updated figures of 2008 edition were added:
  www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/GlobalReport/Archive.asp 
• The AIDS Epidemic Update is a joint UNAIDS and WHO report published annually since 1998. It provides the most recent estimates of the epidemic's scope and explores new findings and trends in the epidemic's evolution at global and regional levels:
  www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/EpiUpdate/EpiUpdArchive 

1.2 Other institutions addressing AIDS

• WHO provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events on HIVinfections at: www.who.int/health_topics/hiv_infections/en , as well as a webpage addressing HIV and Tuberculosis at: www.who.int/hiv/topics/tb/tuberculosis/en/ 
• The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), created to dramatically increase resources to fight three of the world's most devastating diseases and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need, provides information on the fight against AIDS: www.theglobalfund.org/en/ 
• The European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) addresses the issue of HIV/AIDS prevention and the misconceptions surrounding the disease: www.epha.org/a/2417 
• The United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) is “a comprehensive gender and HIV/AIDS web portal to provide up-to-date information on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic”: www.genderandaids.org/ 

1.3 Q&As & FAQs on AIDS

• The World Health Organization (WHO) provides a series of questions and answers on HIV/AIDS at: http://w3.whosea.org/EN/Section10/Section18/Section349.htm 
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the US Department of Health and Human Services proposes different sections of questions and answers on HIV/AIDS relating to different aspects of the issue: www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/index.htm 
• The Coalition to Reduce HIV answers basic questions in order to achieve a better understanding of HIV/AIDS: http://chua2.fiu.edu/faculty/darroww/reach2010/HIV_FAQ.htm 
• Aids hotline.org answers frequently asked questions on HIV/AIDS at: www.aidshotline.org/crm/asp/refer/faq.asp 
• Med Help International provides, among other things, information that can be useful for improving life standards of people with HIV www.medhelp.org/HealthTopics/HIV.html 

1.4 News sites on AIDS

• The Kaiser Network Organization proposes a “Daily HIV/AIDS Report”: www.kaisernetwork.org/Daily_reports/rep_hiv.cfm 
• Avert posts “HIV and AIDS News as reported in the UK”: www.avert.org.uk/ukaidsnews.htm 
• The AIDS Education Global Information System (ÆGIS) offers “HIV news from around the world, updated houry”: www.aegis.com 
• aidsmap.com, NAM’s website, proposes HIV/Aids-related news at: www.aidsmap.com 
• The AIDS Education & Training Centers (AETC) proposes HIV treatment news at: www.aids-ed.org/aidsetc?page=et-14-00 

1.5 Other websites

• The Constellation for AIDS Competence provides tools for empowering communities and support local actions: www.aidscompetence.org 
• Family Health International (FHI) provides information on HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and mitigation at: www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/index.htm 
• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (iavi) is a global not-for-profit organization working to speed the search for a vaccine to prevent HIV infection and AIDS: www.iavi.org 
• The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports efforts to stop HIV transmission: www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalHealth/Pri_Diseases/HIVAIDS/ 
• The UCSF AIDS Health Project aims at providing counseling and education to stop the spread of HIV infection and at helping people face the emotional, psychological and social challenges of living with HIV disease:www.ucsf-ahp.org/ 
• The Body, a service of Body Health Resources Corporation, is a website fully dedicated to HIV/AIDS that provides updated news and plenty of resources on HIV/AIDS: www.thebody.com 
• The Terrence Higgins Trust offers information geared towards people that have to face AIDS in their everyday life. This includes political, legal and professional matters: www.tht.org.uk/informationresources/ 

2. Partner links

Web pages of GreenFacts' partners addressing HIV/AIDS:

• The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, SDC, published its AIDS Policy for the period 2002-2007: www.sdc.admin.ch/ 
• The Development Gateway has a part of its website dedicated to HIV/AIDS:http://topics.developmentgateway.org/hiv/ 

3. Other Views

Links in this section have been selected as examples of other views on AIDS. This list of links is only a sample and it is not suggested that it is complete nor that it is fully representative of all the existing views. GreenFacts asbl takes no position concerning the views expressed in these linked documents.

• VIRUSMYTH is a website that questions HIV as the cause of AIDS: www.virusmyth.net/aids/ 
• The Alberta Reappraising AIDS Society is a website that questions “the HIV-AIDS theory”: http://aras.ab.ca/ 
• Harmonik Ireland published an article entitled “The great “HIV” hoax” which presents a list of comments and opinions asserting that HIV is not the cause for AIDS or even that AIDS does not exist: www.harmonikireland.com/index.php?topic=HIV 
• On his personal website, Prof. Peter Duesberg posted his works that challenge “the virus-AIDS hypothesis”: www.duesberg.com/ 
• The Orgone Biophysical Research Lab proposes an article entitled “HIV is Not the Cause of AIDS: A Summary of Current Research Findings”: www.orgonelab.org/hiv_aids.htm