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HIV / AIDS
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 Acts
of Intervention : Performance, Gay Culture, and AIDS (Unnatural
Acts) by David
Roman
AIDS has had myriad effects on gay culture, and
its influence on gay writing and theater have perhaps been the
most notable. While novels and poetry by gay men and lesbians have
recorded the epidemic, performance art has most closely reflected
and embraced AIDS activism. David Roman's Acts of Intervention
chronicles the emergence of AIDS as a subject in performance and
theater, from the post-modern, high-camp, drag extravaganzas of
Lypsinka to the overtly political parody of the Afro Pomo Homos to
Tim Miller's playful, nude monologue performances: art as
politics. But Roman is as interested in politics as art, and much
of Acts of Intervention impressively discusses how public activity
protests against government AIDS policy are
"performances" themselves. Roman's knowledge of AIDS,
art, and gay culture is exhaustive, and his writing is clear,
succinct, and informed. Gay culture and art has always been about
becoming visible and powerful, and Acts of Intervention charts how
this has occurred over the past 17 years.
"This is a moving and important study of
AIDS and theater. I felt connected to a whole history of cultural
and creative work, much of which I never knew existed before I
read this book. The book includes some really great images of
early AIDS activism. Even though it deals with the history of
AIDS, the book is by no means a downer. This will book inspire
you. As a gay man, I'm really glad I took the time to read
it." -- Anonymous Review
 The
River : A Journey to the Source of Hiv and AIDS by
Edward Hooper, W. D. Hamilton
For all the devastation and suffering AIDS has
caused worldwide, we have devoted surprisingly little attention to
its beginnings. Former UN official and BBC correspondent Edward
Hooper hopes to find the source of AIDS in The River, a
stunningly comprehensive yet deeply engaging scientific history of
the disease. Through more than 10 years of research comprising
over 600 interviews and untold hours of library work, Hooper has
uncovered a complex, interlocking set of stories--of scientific
research, of medical assistance to the Third World, of political
and economic exigencies that drive the courses of our lives--and
brought them together in over 1,000 pages of text, footnotes,
references, and illustrations.
His thesis, that HIV made the jump from simians
to humans via the administration of oral polio vaccine in Africa
in the 1950s, is still controversial, but his arguments are
powerful, broad, and undeniable--all that is lacking is conclusive
proof. Like a good scientist (and, sad to say, unlike any HIV
researcher to date), he offers several easy tests of his
hypothesis. His tales of brilliant epidemiological deductions,
biochemical comparisons, and physiological insights ought to
convince the medical establishment that the answer can and should
be found, both to help us deal with the current crisis and to keep
us from creating new ones of its ilk. In a litigation-weary world,
though, it seems that it will take the kind of tireless, impartial
research found in The River to show us--and our
leaders--that blame should take a back seat to truth when extreme
circumstances demand it. --Rob Lightner
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ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of
individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end
the AIDS Crisis.
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The American Medical Association (AMA) Program
on Child and Adolescent Health is pleased to provide you with this
resource for information on adolescent health issues.
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The "magic bullet" to cure or prevent
HIV infection has not been found, and too many people with or
affected by HIV/AIDS are isolated by cultural, geographic, and
economic barriers. In these times, how must we fight AIDS and
relieve the human suffering it causes? We believe the answer will
be found in the transformation of information into knowledge. For
that to happen, information must be easily accessible and widely
disseminated. It must be used.
To promote this process ÆGiS utilizes a
combination of FidoNet® (connecting over 32,000 electronic
bulletin boards in 66 countries) and Internet communication tools.
In this way, we seek to relieve some of the suffering and
isolation caused by HIV/AIDS, and foster the understanding and
knowledge that will lead to better care, prevention, and a cure.
Since its inception, in 1990, ÆGiS has matured
into a robust, fully operational service with a global network of
users. The range of information available is so vast, its quality
so dependable, that national and international organizations
routinely log onto the system to converse or download clinical
information or late-breaking news.
In 1999, ÆGiS was nominated to UNESCO's Memory
of the World Programme".
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Founded in 1984, AIDS Action is the only
organization solely dedicated to responsible federal policy for
improved HIV/AIDS care and services, vigorous medical research and
effective prevention. AIDS Action, named by the New York
Times as "among the country's most powerful advocacy
groups," is a network of 3200 national AIDS service
organizations and the one million HIV-positive Americans they
serve.
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A history of AIDS from the Gay Men's Health
Crisis
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For almost fifteen years, AIDS Walk Orange
County has been raising awareness and much needed funds for the
fight against HIV and AIDS. Since 1987, this 10-kilometer pledge
walk has raised nearly $6 million for charitable agencies which
provide food, housing, medical and dental services,
transportation, benefits counseling, home care, recreation, legal
services, mental health, HIV testing, counseling, supportive
groups, and prevention and education programs.
Yet the epidemic continues...
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The American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the
support of HIV/AIDS research, AIDS prevention, treatment
education, and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy.
With its freedom and flexibility to respond quickly to emerging
opportunities and its determination to invest in cutting-edge
science, amfAR plays a unique, catalytic role in accelerating the
pace of HIV/AIDS research and achieving real breakthroughs. Funded
by voluntary contributions from individuals, foundations, and
corporations, amfAR has invested nearly $175 million in support of
its mission since 1985 and funded grants to over 1,850 research
teams worldwide.
amfAR's mission is to prevent HIV infection and the disease and
death associated with it and to protect the human rights of all
people threatened by the epidemic of HIV/AIDS.
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A general description of ARIC and it's services
and publications, including our AIDS Medical Information Hotline,
our publishing and design services to other AIDS non-profits, our
print and Internet publishing program, our Website, and our
activities in the Baltimore-Washington community on behalf of
People with HIV.
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The Body covers every aspect of HIV and AIDS from the medical to the social, and hosts over 40 top AIDS groups. Free interactive Q&A with experts and the Loel Poor Photo Exhibit.
The Body's mission is to:
- Use the Web to lower barriers between
patients and clinicians;
- Demystify HIV/AIDS and its treatment;
- Improve patients' quality of life;
- Foster community through human connection.
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Equity Fights AIDS was founded in October, 1987
by the Council of Actors’ Equity Association. Money raised
through the efforts of Equity theatre companies across the country
was specifically earmarked for The Actors’ Fund’s AIDS
Initiative.
Broadway Cares was founded in February, 1988 by
members of The Producers’ Group. Money raised was earmarked to
be awarded to AIDS service organizations across the country,
including Equity Fights AIDS.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Business Responds to AIDS and Labor Responds to AIDS Programs (BRTA/LRTA)
help large and small businesses and labor unions meet the
challenges of HIV/AIDS in the workplace and the community. These
programs are working in partnership with businesses and labor
unions, as well as trade associations, public health departments,
AIDS service organizations, and government agencies to promote the
development of comprehensive workplace HIV/AIDS programs.
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The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network is based in
Montréal (Québec), Canada. It is the only national,
community-based, charitable organization in Canada working
exclusively in the area of policy and legal issues raised by
HIV/AIDS. It was formed in November 1992 and has over 200 members
across Canada and internationally.
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The mission of the Center for AIDS Prevention
Studies (CAPS) is to conduct rigorous theory-based research that
will have maximum impact on the theory, practice, and policy of
AIDS prevention. Our cores stimulate new research projects to keep
pace with the ever-changing epidemic, provide necessary services
to our existing research projects and to the scientists at CAPS,
and provide the platform for scientific interactions to advance
and enhance multidisciplinary research in AIDS prevention.
Prevention science will be necessary as long as an American gets
infected every 13 minutes and someone in the world gets infected
every 17 seconds. Our scientists remain committed to applying
their best efforts to meet this need.
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The UCSD Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is a major
component of the AIDS Research Institute (ARI), an Organized Research Unit
at the University of California San Diego. The CFAR is expanding to become
a regional, comprehensive AIDS Research Center, with participating members
drawn from the UCSD community as well as collaborating members from
neighboring institutions including:
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A nationally distributed AIDS treatment newsletter,
Critical Path AIDS Project, by and for persons with AIDS expanded its
suite of electronic service to include a comprehensive AIDS web site. At
the same time, this grass-roots organization offered free dial-up Internet
access (SLIP and PPP accounts and a suite of applications programs) to
individuals and organizations locally, as well as hosted web pages for
both regional and national organizations.
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Deaf HIV/AIDS Resources.
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Gay Men's Health Wiltshire and Swindon works
directly with local gay and bisexual men, as well as with other
local organisations and services to help them to better help local
gay men.
These pages explain the services that are
available to each of these groups. There is also a page explaining
the work we are doing with young gay people - both directly and
with schools.
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 Through
a wide variety of educational strategies, including one-shot
workshops; skill-building groups; publication of brochures,
handouts, books, and Internet services; public awareness
campaigns; media advocacy; special projects and events; and
research, Alice!’s primary mission is to make health and
wellness a greater life priority for Columbia University students
and staff. Alice! is committed to the informed development,
vigorous marketing, critical evaluation, and full access to its
products using sound educational models. Consideration of our
diverse population, as well as our knowledge of current health
news and scientific studies, social norms, and popular trends will
factor into the design and implementation of our programs. Alice!
will share its knowledge, projects, and resources with other
individuals and institutions also committed to learning and
educating about health. Alice!’s support of human rights,
freedom of speech, and freedom of access to information are
foundations on which its program operates. Alice! is dedicated to
the health and healthy working structure and environment of its
professional and student staff, and to their continued
professional and personal development. Alice! adheres to the high
educational and professional standards set by the Columbia
University Health and Related Services of which it is a
division, and by Columbia University in the City of New York.
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The Foundation's work in HIV/AIDS is focused on
informing the national policy discussion about the HIV/AIDS
epidemic within the context of a changing treatment environment
and health care delivery and financing system. Our work focuses on
issues of health care coverage, financing, access to care, and
prevention, particularly for those increasingly impacted by the
epidemic including women, people of color, and young people. Our
work and partnerships address topics such as the implications of
changes in Medicaid policy for people with HIV, the impact of
managed care on HIV care in the US, the changing role of HIV
testing, and the disproportionate impact of HIV in minority
communities. By providing new information about the epidemic, we
serve as an information resource for policymakers, the media and
the HIV community on around key issues being debated in Congress
and the states. We also work to provide information to the public
about HIV prevention and treatment.
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The staff of HIV and Hepatitis.com is a group of
individuals closely linked to the communities of people living
with HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C virus infection. Our common
objective is to create a quality online publication that provides
timely, accurate and informative information about treatment and
experimental vaccine options for these chronic conditions.
The goals of HIV and Hepatitis.com are
 | to improve quality of life;
| to slow disease progression; and
| to increase survival time among the hundreds
of millions of people living with HIV, hepatitis B or
hepatitis C. |
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Home Access Health Corporation provides the only
FDA-approved at-home testing systems for HIV and for Hepatitis C.
As part of our service we offer 24 hour counseling regarding
testing and test results. To hear testimonials about our work,
click the red speaker icon. To obtain an at-home test system,
click the order now button. Information about Hepatitis C, HIV,
joining the Home Access community, getting facts about Home Access
or general questions can be found by clicking on the menu items.
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Tom Flemming MA,
MLS (Dalhousie), AHIP
"I have been developing this page since Canada
Day (1 July) 1995 as a collection of links to sources of
health care information of interest to a broad spectrum of
potential users, both in Canada and beyond. Among the users I have
in mind in the development of this resource are: patients, their
families and friends, and their health care workers. The resources
presented here are not intended exclusively for those who are ill.
Anyone with an interest in health (maintaining it, protecting it
and improving it, especially), and everyone interested in the
quality of health care available to us (consumers and health care
practitioners, too) will find electronic information sites of
interest in the various sections of this [website]..."
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HIV InSite is a project of the University of
California San Francisco (UCSF) Positive
Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center
and the UCSF Center
for AIDS Prevention Studies which are programs of the UCSF
AIDS Research Institute.
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Housing
Works is a minority-controlled, community-based, not-for-profit
corporation providing housing, health care, advocacy, job
training, and vital supportive services to homeless New Yorkers
living with HIV and AIDS. When
Housing Works was founded nearly a decade ago, there were fewer
than 350 units of supportive housing for the estimated 30,000
homeless people with AIDS and HIV who were living in New York
City. AIDS was fast
becoming a primary cause of homelessness in the United States.
Thousands lived on the streets or in dangerous, squalid,
and disease-ridden shelters, with no access to health care or
social services. A
woeful lack of effective HIV prevention/education programs—as
well as an increasingly high incidence of intravenous drug use and
survival sex, both as a cause of and a response to
homelessness—led to tragically predictable and dramatic
increases in HIV-infection among the city’s homeless.
Housing
Works was founded in June 1990 as an outgrowth of the Housing
Committee of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), to
address the burgeoning crises of homelessness and AIDS, and to
restore the fundamental human rights of homeless people with AIDS
and HIV through innovative advocacy and direct service programs.
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Mothers'
Voices is the only national, grassroots, non-profit organization
mobilizing mothers as educators and advocates for improved HIV
prevention expanded research, better medical treatment and
ultimately, a cure for AIDS.
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The mission: To use The AIDS Memorial
Quilt to bring an end to AIDS.
The Goals: Provide a creative means for remembrance and
healing. Illustrate the enormity of the AIDS epidemic. Increase
public awareness of AIDS. Assist with HIV prevention education.
Raise funds for community-based AIDS service organizations.
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The National Association of People With AIDS
advocates on behalf of all people living with HIV and AIDS in
order to end the pandemic and the human suffering caused by
HIV/AIDS.
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The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is
a health information referral service. NHIC puts health
professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch
with those organizations that are best able to provide answers.
NHIC was established in 1979 by the Office
of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of
Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health
and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible
information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health
through strong partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for
developing and applying disease prevention and control,
environmental health, and health promotion and education
activities designed to improve the health of the people of the
United States.
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The National
Minority AIDS Council (NMAC), established in 1987, is the
premier national organization dedicated to developing leadership
within communities of color to address the challenge of HIV/AIDS.
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NPAN is a resource for information on children
and adolescents with HIV/AIDS. NPAN
provides access to information about such topics as:
| treatment;
| clinical trials;
| services for children and adolescents with
HIV/AIDS;
| conferences;
| publications and other information resources;
| educational resources. |
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Project Inform has been at the frontlines in the
fight against HIV and AIDS since 1985—when reliable information
about the disease and its treatment was nearly impossible to
obtain.
Project Inform is a national nonprofit,
community based organization working to end the AIDS epidemic. Its
mission is to:
| Provide vital
information on the diagnosis and treatment of HIV disease
to HIV-infected individuals, their caregivers, and their
healthcare and service providers. |
| Advocate for enlightened
regulatory, research, and funding policies, affecting the
development of, access to, and delivery of effective
treatments, as well as to fund innovative research
opportunities. |
| Inspire people to make informed choices amid
uncertainty, and to choose hope over despair. |
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Find online resources, books, instructional
videos and more
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The Sexuality Information and Education Council
of the U.S. (SIECUS) is a national, nonprofit organization which
affirms that sexuality is a natural and healthy part of living.
Incorporated in 1964, SIECUS develops, collects, and disseminates
information, promotes comprehensive education about sexuality, and
advocates the right of individuals to make responsible sexual
choices.
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Offering education and support for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Our primary focus is helping youth under the age of 25.
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