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A Tour of AIDSinfo
The AIDSinfo web site is organized around five main subject categories about HIV/AIDS clinical trials and treatment:

  Education and Resource Center
This category contains information for three major groups: patients/general public, health care providers, and researchers. Click on this category to find links to various brochures, fact sheets, and other web resources that are of interest to these specific groups of individuals.

  Guidelines
This category contains links to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) HIV guidelines. Click on this category to view or download current and archived versions of the guidelines. Recent news, related documents, and web site resources that pertain to treating or preventing HIV infection and opportunistic infections are also found in this section.

  Drugs
This category contains information about each of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved anti-HIV (antiretroviral) medications. Click on this category to locate drug-specific information such as side effects and interactions with food or other drugs. Links to literature citations and clinical trials are provided for each of the FDA-approved medications. You will also find links to specific sections of the DHHS guidelines that pertain to a particular drug. The AIDSinfo Drug Database is available under this category. This database contains HIV/AIDS drug fact sheets describing the drug’s use, pharmacology, toxicity, and other information. The database contains both FDA-approved and investigational drugs. Information in the database is available in both technical and non-technical language.

  Vaccines
In this category you can browse the ClinicalTrials.gov  database to find clinical trials testing candidate HIV vaccines, or you can click on "create your own search" to customize a search query. Links to recent news, related documents, and web site resources that are relevant to HIV vaccines are found in this section.

  Clinical Trials
In this category you can browse the ClinicalTrials.gov  database to find HIV/AIDS clinical trials, or you can click on "create your own search" to customize a search query. Links to recent news, related documents, and web site resources that are relevant to HIV/AIDS clinical trials are found in this section.

Additional categories are:


  Live Help
Real time, online assistance provided by trained health information specialists who are knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS, clinical trials for HIV treatment and prevention, hotlines, publications, web sites, and other information about HIV/AIDS-related resources.

  Site Search
Use this feature to quickly locate information. Enter a word or words into the search box, then click on "Go."

  HIV/AIDS News
This section highlights new information. A link to "What's New" items is found on each page.

  HIV Glossary
Use this feature to search a glossary of HIV/AIDS-related terms and definitions.

  Order Pubs
Publications available through AIDSinfo can be ordered via this feature. Click on "order pubs" to search for educational materials.
 
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