For Health Care Providers
CATIE Ordering Centre: Free resources for residents of Canada
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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 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
Plain and Simple Fact Sheets - basic information on symptoms, treatment and more
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 HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy)
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 patient needs to know about symptoms, side effects, major infections, HIV drugs and more
Supplement Sheets - what your patient needs to know about vitamins, herbs and supplements
Specific Communities
The Positive Side: Sisters are Doing it for Themselves - a special issue for women
LivePositive.ca - a Web site for youth about HIV/AIDS
CATIE's Hepatitis C Website: www.hepCinfo.ca
pre*fix - harm reduction for + users
Multilingual glossary of HIV-related terms
Multilingual Treatment Information in Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Swahili, Punjabi, Tamil and more
Inuit Fact Sheets
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Referrals
When your patients need more information, here are some places they can turn to.
CATIE's 1.800 Support Line
HIV hotlines
Links to other HIV/AIDS Treatment Web Sites - CATIE reviews other Web sites and provides you with links for easy access.
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.
Other links
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
CATIE has partnered with the Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (CANAC) to provide an extensive resource centre for HIV/AIDS-related nursing information.