More Resources for People Living with HIV
Alternative and Other Therapies
Beyond Medications: Healthy Living for HIVers
This section of The Body web site presents information on alternative and complementary therapies.
Clinical Trials
HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials
This page from AIDSinfo provides access to information on federally and privately funded clinical trials studying HIV and AIDS.
Institute for Human Virology
This site contains information on clinical trials at the University of Maryland.
The AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA)
ACRIA is a non-profit community-based AIDS research and treatment education center.
Housing
Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS (HOPWA)
HOPWA funding provides housing assistance and related supportive services to people living with HIV/AIDS and their families.
Nutrition
A Complete Guide to Nutrition from HIV Resources
This site contains links to a variety of resources on nutrition and HIV/AIDS.
Diet and Nutrition
This site from The Body provides links to topics on nutrition, vitamin supplementation, and wasting syndrome, including links to information on nutrition and drug therapies.
"Eating Defensively: Food Safety Advice for Persons with AIDS"
This is an article from the Food and Drug Administration on how to shop for food, eat out, or travel abroad and still maintain good nutrition.
Food and Friends
This organization provides home-delivered meals to homebound People Living with HIV/AIDS, as well as nutritional support and groceries in the Washington, DC area, including the Maryland suburbs.
Moveable Feast
This organization provides home-delivered meals to homebound People Living with HIV/AIDS, nutritional support, groceries, and transportation programs in the Greater Baltimore area.
Nutrition Support
This site offers nutritional information as a tool to assist in the management of HIV.
Opportunistic Infections
Articles on Opportunistic Infections and Complications of HIV
This site from The Body provides links to information on a variety of infections that can occur along with HIV disease.
Infections Associated with HIV Disease
This site from HIVInsite contains technical information on the different infections that can complicate HIV disease and AIDS.
Treatments and Drug Therapies
AIDSmeds.com
This web site has easy to understand information about HIV treatment, drugs, and "cool tools" that check for drug interactions and create graphs of lab test results.
HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) guidance documents for the medical management of HIV infection and other issues surrounding HIV infection can be found at this AIDS Info site.
Project Inform
This national, nonprofit, community-based organization's motto is "Information, Inspiration and Advocacy for People Living with HIV/AIDS". Information is available on the site, in publications, and through their toll-free National HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Hotline.
The New Mexico AIDS InfoNet
A project of the New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, this web site has information on HIV, treatment, medications, side effects, and alternative and complementary therapies. Information is presented in over 100 single page fact sheets written in English and Spanish, as well as a listing of over 750 web sites dealing with HIV/AIDS.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
This government site has information on therapies, treatment guidelines, clinical trials and drug development, HIV tests, and more.
Other Information
Maryland Community Services Locator
This site was created by the Center for Substance Abuse Research at
the University of Maryland, College Park, with funding from the
Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention, to help Maryland
residents more easily access local resources. This site helps users
quickly find detailed resource listings for a variety of services,
including HIV/AIDS resources, health services, and others.
Be sure to check out the HIV/AIDS Resources section.
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