New Web Site for HIV-Positive Women

The Well Project, an initiative by and for women living with HIV/AIDS, has launched a new Web site to serve as a comprehensive woman-specific HIV resource offering the latest information on managing the disease for infected women, health care providers, and advocates. Women are the fastest growing population of newly HIV-infected people in the United States and worldwide.

"Women with HIV/AIDS face unique challenges. The Well Project is specifically designed to identify and fill in the gaps of current information and unify the distribution of the already available, but often under-utilized resources," said Dawn Averitt, its founder and CEO.

The Web site includes fact sheets; data sets; summary slides; a searchable clinical trials database; a resource directory; and a physician network for expert discussion on treatment. The site is divided into five targeted sections: HIV, The Basics, Treatment and Trials, Diseases and Conditions, Living Well, and a Women's Center.

In addition, members can participate in confidential and secure discussion boards, download advocacy tools, and receive an e-newsletter highlighting the most current information about women and HIV.

For more information, go to www.thewellproject.com.

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