HIV InSite, provided by UCSF, SFGH, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, is an exhaustive clearinghouse of AIDS related information for practitioners, patients, and others interested in the topic. One of its highlights is Today's News, a summary of daily news stories derived from many sources.

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The University of California, San Francisco, and San Francisco General Hospital have made the 1997 edition of this massive (2000 page) AIDS textbook available at the HIV InSite. At present, fifteen of the 96 chapters in nine major sections are available. The entire 1994 edition is available, with icons pointing from outdated chapters to updated ones.

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Released on December 1, World AIDS Day, this new report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) explores the skyrocketing number of children in sub-Saharan Africa made orphans by the AIDS pandemic. The numbers involved are simply staggering. By the end of 1999, over 11.2 million children will be orphaned by AIDS, 95 percent of...

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Body Health Resources Corporation (BHRC) is responsible for this site, a wide-ranging collection of resources related to AIDS and HIV. The Body acts as a clearinghouse for experts and organizations to exchange information with each other and make it available to the public. The sources of information are varied, from the Center for Disease Control to POZ magazine to individual people with AIDS,...

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AEGIS, "the largest HIV/AIDS web site in the world," was developed by Sister Mary Elizabeth of the Sisters of St. Elizabeth of Hungary and is currently funded by private donors and grants from The National Library of Medicine and Roxane Laboratories. This feature-rich site is awash in valuable HIV resources. Today's HIV News, also available via email subscription, provides the latest news on...

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This update of a 1997 USAID report examines how AIDS has transformed "large-scale orphaning" from a typically "sporadic, short-term problem" into a chronic problem that already is bound to extend through at least the first third of the 21st century. The report includes "new orphan estimates for 34 countries; a description of what children, families, and communities are doing to address the growing...

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Twenty years ago in Los Angeles, a bizarre new disease appeared in five patients, whose bodies were unable to thwart infections of exotic microbes. This disease became to be known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and has since infected nearly 60 million people worldwide. Twenty-two million have died from these infections. In the two decades since its first description, AIDS has grown...

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May 22, 2001, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation released a report on the public's perception of the AIDS epidemic in America. This release is in advance of the National Symposium on AIDS convening on June 5, which will, among other things, take up these findings. According to the 64-page report, "when asked to name the most urgent health problem facing the U.S., more than one in...

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According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), May 31 marked the 20-year anniversary of the first discovery of AIDS. Perhaps not surprisingly, the Web has seen a corresponding flurry of activity devoted to the history and current status of research on the disease. The CDC has posted this site, which collects research findings from the Centers' Morbidity and Mortality Weekly...

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