Topic Pages: AIDS and HIV

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• Tools
• Publications
• Organizations

Tools

• HIV/AIDS
  Provides data and information on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including policy reports, fact sheets, and survey data, and HIV/AIDS initiatives in South Africa.
  Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
• HIV/AIDS Information
  Publications providing the latest news, data and statistics, prevention and treatment information, funding, and publications.
  Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of Minority Health
• AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) National Resource Center (NRC)
  Web site provides training materials, clinical information resources, news and other resources related to providing healthcare to patients with HIV/AIDS.
  Sponsoring organization: AIDS Education and Training Centers National Resource Center
• AIDSinfo
  Provides information in Spanish and English on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research. AIDSinfo Information Service is available Monday through Friday between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Call 1-800-448-0440 or 1-301-519-0459 (International) or 1-888-480-3739 (TTY/TDD). Send email to: ContactUs@aidsinfo.nih.gov.
  Sponsoring organization: National Institutes of Health
• CDC - HIV/AIDS - Contact Us
  1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)
  An AIDS hotline with Spanish Service and TTY Service that takes calls from people with questions about prevention, risk, testing, treatment and other HIV/AIDS- related concerns. Information Specialists are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and can answer questions, provide referrals, and send free publications through email and postal mail. Formerly called the CDC National AIDS Hotline.
  Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Publications

• AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the Rural South
  A Fact Sheet regarding statistics and data on AIDS in the rural south.
  Sponsoring organization: Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
  Date: 2002
  Format: PDF
  
• Fact Sheets About Farmworkers: HIV/AIDS
  Brief information and statistics about HIV/AIDS and the migrant farmworker population.
  Sponsoring organization: National Center for Farmworker Health
  Format: PDF
  
• HIV/AIDS in Rural America
  Of the estimated 860,037 Americans diagnosed with AIDS through 2003, 52,375 live in rural areas with fewer than 50,000 people. About 7.6 percent of AIDS cases reported in 2003 were in rural areas, up from 5 percent in 1995.
  Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  Format: PDF
  
• HIV/AIDS in Rural America: Disproportionate Impact on Minority and Multicultural Populations
  Overview of the impact of AIDS and HIV in rural areas. Summarizes the epidemiology of AIDS/HIV, including its impact on rural minority groups. Discusses the challenges rural areas face in preventing AIDS. Includes policy recommendations.
  Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
  Date: 07 / 2004
  Format: PDF
  
• Stigma as a Barrier to HIV Prevention in the Rural Deep South
  Discusses how the stigma of HIV can be a barrier to prevention methods in the Deep South.
  Sponsoring organization: Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
  Date: 2005
  Format: PDF
  

Organizations

• AIDS Education and Training Centers National Resource Center
  The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program of the Ryan White CARE Act currently supports a network of 11 regional centers that conduct targeted, multi-disciplinary education and training programs for health care providers treating persons with HIV/AIDS.
• Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention
  The major focus of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention (RCAP) is the promotion of HIV/STD prevention in rural America, with the goal of reducing HIV/STD incidence.