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Resources for Your Patients Living with HIV/AIDS

CATIE has an extensive collection of treatment information for people living with HIV/AIDS. Direct your patients to these resources when they need more information. To order print copies of any CATIE publication, please visit the CATIE Ordering Centre or contact us by phone at 1.800.263.1638 or e-mail at info@catie.ca.

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Overall Health Management

These publications look at the big picture of living with HIV in simple, everyday terms your patients can understand.

Just Diagnosed with HIV – First things to know about living with HIV
HIV & AIDS Basic Facts – This brochure offers the basics on HIV transmission, testing and treatment.
Managing Your Health - Our must-read handbook on living with HIV
HIV and aging - healthy living tips for people 50 and over living with HIV

The Positive Side - Our health and wellness magazine for people living with HIV

Practical Guides for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Use these plain and simple guides on HIV treatment when a patient asks, "What can I do to take control of my health?"
A Practical Guide to HIV Drug Treatment
A Practical Guide to HIV Drug Side Effects
A Practical Guide to Nutrition
A Practical Guide to Complementary Therapies
A Practical Guide to Herbal Therapies

In-depth Information

For the knowledgeable patient, these documents provide more detail.

Fact Sheets – what your client needs to know about symptoms, side effects, major infections, HIV drugs, vitamins, herbs and supplements

Specific Communities

Gay Men’s Sexual Health Knowledge Centre - key resources and tools for service providers who work with gay, bisexual, two-spirit, queer and other MSM
Intersexions & Interjections: CATIE’s National HIV and Youth Knowledge Exchange Symposium
The Positive Side: Sisters are Doing it for Themselves - a special issue for women
CATIE's Hepatitis C Website: www.hepCinfo.ca
pre*fix - harm reduction for + users
LivePositive.ca - a Web site for youth about HIV/AIDS
Multilingual glossary of HIV-related terms
Multilingual Treatment Information in Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Swahili, Punjabi, Tamil and more
More resources for specific communites

Referrals

When your patients need more information, here are some places they can turn to.
CATIE's 1.800 Support Line
HIV hotlines
ASO411 – Locate an AIDS Service Organization (ASO) or other HIV related service in your area

Resources for Physicians

CATIE offers resources that help you stay abreast of advances in HIV treatment.

Access to HIV drugs

Federal, Provincial and Territorial Drug Access Programs - information about drug coverage and benefit programs in Canada

What's new in treatment and prevention

Prevention in Focus: Spotlight on programming and research – CATIE’s new prevention e-bulletin

TreatmentUpdate - CATIE's flagship treatment digest on cutting-edge developments in HIV/AIDS research and treatment
CATIE-News - bite-sized HIV/AIDS news bulletins
HIV-related clinical trials enrolling in Canada

Events

CATIE events listing
International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) - upcoming conferences hosted by the organization

Treatment guidelines

Several organizations publish guidelines on different aspects of managing HIV/AIDS:

The British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS - therapeutic guidelines for antiretroviral therapy in adults
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - guidelines on testing, post-exposure prophylaxis, treatment and managing complications
The British HIV Association - guidelines on treatment, as well as adherence, co-infection, immunization and transplantation.
European AIDS Clinical Sociey - therapeutic guidelines for antiretroviral therapy in adults

Other links

Guide for HIV/AIDS Clinical Care - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, HIV/AIDS Bureau
HIV Clinical Resource (from the New York State Department of Health) - a central resource to equip individuals who care for people with HIV to ensure the highest quality HIV clinical care
International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care - one of the best sites for following the progress of the HIV/AIDS research community provides excellent conference coverage and expert reviews of antiretrovirals
Johns Hopkins AIDS Service - highlights include The Hopkins HIV Report, a calendar of AIDS conferences, an expert discussion forum, and an online version of the medical textbook, The Medical Management of HIV Infection
Medline (from the U.S. National Library of Medicine) - A searchable database containing over 8.5 million records culled from over 3,800 peer-reviewed medical journals

Resources for Nurses and Pharmacists