HIV/AIDS Basics
Overview
- AIDS: Use Your Head (PDF) (Regularly Updated)
By students for students.
From University of Alberta Health Centre
- BrainPOP: Short, Animated HIV/AIDS Movies and Multimedia (Regularly Updated)
Available online to help educate kids about HIV, but also great for teaching adults.
From BrainPOP
- Ever Thought About Living With AIDS? (PDF) (Regularly Updated)
From University of Alberta Health Centre
- Government AIDS Information Resources (Regularly Updated)
From National Library of Medicine
- HIV & AIDS: The Basics (Regularly Updated)
From Gay Men's Health Crisis
- HIV/AIDS: What's the Big Deal? (PDF) (Regularly Updated)
From University of Alberta Health Centre
- Stopping the Spread of HIV (September 5, 2009)
To read PDF, click here
From AIDS InfoNet
- The Columbia University Handbook on HIV and AIDS (PDF) (September 2009)
An overview of HIV/AIDS.
From Columbia University
- The Relationship Between HIV and AIDS (June 5, 2009)
From U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- What Is HIV? (2009)
From HIV Coalition (HIVCO)
- HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) (December 10, 2008)
From AIDS Treatment Data Network
- Understanding HIV/AIDS
Table of Contents (October 2008)
From U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- How HIV Damages the Immune System (September 18, 2008)
In AIDS 101, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- How the Immune System Fights Disease (September 18, 2008)
Great primer on how T cells work.
In AIDS 101, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- Basic Information (September 3, 2008)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- What Is AIDS, HIV and HIV Disease? (August 25, 2008)
In AIDS 101, from San Francisco AIDS Foundation
- How HIV Does (and Does Not) Infect, and How it Replicates: A Quick Look at the Transmission and Lifecycle of the Virus (September/October 2007)
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- Acute HIV Infection (September 28, 2007)
To read PDF, click here
From AIDS InfoNet
- Living With HIV/AIDS (June 21, 2007)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 (March 8, 2007)
To read PDF, click here
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- HIV/AIDS Science (January 22, 2007)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Quiz: How Much Do You Know About HIV/AIDS? (May 30, 2006)
From PBS
- HIV/AIDS 101: The Three- and Four-Letter Acronyms (November/December 2004)
Brief explanations of what HIV and AIDS mean, and how HIV works.
To read PDF, click here
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- True or False: The HIV Knowledge Test (November/December 2003)
Ten questions to gauge your awareness of HIV, who gets it and how it's treated.
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
- The HIV Life Cycle (Winter 2002/2003)
To read PDF, click here
In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- Talking About AIDS so America Listens (2002)
A comprehensive handbook for talking about AIDS.
To read PDF, click here
From AIDS Action Council
- Secrets and Puzzles of HIV/AIDS (February 2001)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
- Download Free AIDS in America Software (2001)
This program reviews the basic facts about HIV & AIDS.
From University of Alberta
- Talking About HIV/AIDS (December 1, 1999)
Effective strategies for communicating about HIV/AIDS.
In Be a Force for Change, from American Association for World Health
- Survival of HIV in the Environment (July 29, 1999)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- HIV and Its Transmission (July 1999)
To read PDF, click here
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 10 Things to Know About HIV/AIDS (December 1, 1998)
In Be a Force for Change, from American Association for World Health
- Overview: Basic Science and Epidemiology (1998)
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS
- Overview: Transmission and Prevention (1998)
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS
- The Intersection of Host and Virus: Risk Factors for HIV Infection (1998)
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS
- HIV Life Cycle
From U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Universal Precautions: Infection Control
Guidelines for infection control in schools.
From National Pediatric and Family HIV Resource Center
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