Southwest Georgia HIV/AIDS
Information Outreach Project
How To Find HIV/AIDS Information on the Web
The World Wide Web (www.) can be a great resource for looking
up all kinds of information about HIV/AIDS. Utilizing the
World Wide Web, you can easily find explanations of medical
problems, gather information on the latest treatments and
research, communicate with others, and tap into the databases
of the world's leading health organizations. The vast majority
of information is free. You can get to it anytime, from anyplace
as long as you have a computer and an Internet connection
(or from most public libraries if you do not have your own
computer).
The World Wide Web is easy to use. You can learn to use it
almost immediately with little or no training, and many Web
sites have tutorials available to help you locate information.
Enter a subject into a "search engine," and you'll
be given a list of "links" to Web sites that have
matching or related terms. These links are also called Uniform
Resource Locators (or URLs for short) and serve as a unique
Web address for each site.
Click on a link that looks good, and you are taken to that
particular web page. Once in that page you might find a list
of links to other Web pages, click on another link and you
will move on to another site…one good site can be a jumping
point to countless others. In a matter of minutes, you can
obtain reliable answers to a multitude of HIV/AIDS-related
questions.
The Southwest Georgia AIDS Information Project (SAIOP) web
site offers people with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers information
specific to Southwest Georgia. Use the SAIOP web site as a
starting point for research on hundreds of HIV/AIDS-related
topics or try searching some of the web sites listed on this
brochure. These sites all have well-organized collections
of links to other sites, and any one could be the starting
point for a fairly thorough search of current information.
As with all information acquired via the Internet, careful
evaluation is advised prior to utilizing the information.
Look for web sites that are produced by well-known organizations,
and that explicitly note the currency of the information.
Information found on the World Wide Web is not meant to replace
the advice of a health care professional. We encourage you
to share the information you find with your health care provider.
- Funded through the National Library of Medicine (467-MZ-101937)
Have a question? Need more information? Please call the Outreach
Librarian. Southwest Georgia AIDS Information Outreach Project,
at (229) 439-7185.
http://www.sowega-ahec.org/saiop/saiop.html
Southwest Georgia AIDS Information Outreach Project
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/HIV/HIVMain.html
National Library of Medicine HIV/AIDS Information
http://www.aegis.com
AEGIS - AIDS Education Global
Information System
http://www.ama-assn.org/special/hiv
American Medical Association HIV/AIDS Resource Center
http://www.thebody.com
The Body
http://www.cdcnpin.org
CDC National Prevention Information
Network
http://www.gmhc.org
Gay Men's Health Crisis
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu
HIV InSite (English and Spanish)
http://www.hopkins-aids.edu
Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
http://www.aidsinfonet.org/001-index.html
New Mexico AIDS InfoNet (comprehensive collection of links)
http://www.noah-health.org/english/about.html
NOAH (New York Online Access to Health): AIDS and HIV (English
and Spanish)
http://www.projectinform.org/
Project Inform
