Starting Points for Researchers/Scientists

• AIDSinfo
  Information on HIV/AIDS Treatment, Prevention, and Research
  • Treatment Guidelines
  • Clinical Trials and Vaccines
  • Drug Information
• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  National Institutes of Health, Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (DAIDS)
  • Increases basic knowledge of the pathogenesis, natural history, and transmission of HIV disease
  • Supports research in its detection, treatment, and prevention
  • Vaccine Research Center
• Office of AIDS Research (NIH)
  Responsible for the scientific, budgetary, legislative and policy elements of the NIH AIDS Research Program
• CDC National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention
  Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention
  • Prevention Research
  • Vaccine Research
• PubMed
  Clinical and research journal article references and abstracts (some with full text links) The AIDS subset of PubMed facilitates searching of HIV/AIDS-related articles
• PubMed Central
  National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS Bureau
  • Grant Opportunities
  • Tools for Grantees
• Center for Mental Health Research on AIDS
  (National Institute of Mental Health)
  Supports domestic and international studies to develop behavior change and prevention strategies to reduce the transmission of HIV

Additional Resources

• Clinical Trials
  • Regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers
  • Information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details
• Health Services Technology/Assessment Text
  HSTAT
  Full-text documents that provide health information and support health care decision making
  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Reports
  • AHCPR Supported Clinical Practice Guidelines
• American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR)
  Non-profit organization supports AIDS research, prevention, treatment education, and public policy advocacy
• HIV Vaccine Trials Network
  Facilitates the process of testing preventive vaccines against HIV/AIDS
  • Conducts all phases of clinical trials, from evaluating experimental vaccines to testing vaccine efficacy
• HIVInsite
  Links to organizations focusing on HIV/AIDS vaccine research, from the University of California, San Francisco
• Drug Information Portal
  Information on 15,000+ drugs from entry into clinical trials through entry in the market place