Resources

Responding to AIDS: History, Politics, and Visual Culture is a class resource for college and university undergraduates and their instructors. The resource examines HIV/AIDS visual materials and explores how AIDS, more than any other disease, offers a complex and vivid example of the ways in which people respond differently to epidemics and create multiple, contested explanations for health and illness.

MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends, produced by the National Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The HIV/AIDS health topic pages include readable information in multiple languages about testing, treatment, and living with HIV/AIDS.

HIVinfo.nih.gov offers access to the latest, federally approved HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines, HIV treatment and prevention clinical trials, and other research information for health care providers, researchers, people affected by HIV/AIDS, and the general public.

Clinical Info offers access to the latest, federally approved HIV/AIDS medical practice guidelines, an HIV drug database, a glossary of HIV-related terms, and resources related to HIV-related research for health care providers, researchers, people affected by HIV/AIDS, and the general public.

Circulating Now, the blog of the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Division, includes posts highlighting HIV/AIDS-related, historical collection items.

C. Everett Koop's two terms as U.S. Surgeon General coincided with the rise of the AIDS epidemic. As part of its Profiles in Science project, the National Library of Medicine makes available online a digitized selection of the C. Everett Koop Papers in “AIDS, the Surgeon General, and the Politics of Public Health.”

ClinicalTrials.gov provides easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. More than 8,000 HIV/AIDS related active and completed studies are available.

This is a tool to aid in the identification, study and analysis of retroviral genomes and proteins. The HIV human interaction database catalogs and organizes published data in peer-reviewed journals regarding HIV-1 and human protein interactions.