AIDS Action Promotes research into causes, effects, treatment, and prevention related to HIV/AIDS and to promote health care and other services for persons with HIV/AIDS.
Aids Info NYC A linked collection of pages from HIV/AIDS community based organizations in New York City.
Aids Kids.org Children with AIDS Project of America offers a variety of services for children infected/affected by AIDS or drug exposed infants who will require foster or adoptive families.
AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Project Los Angeles, the largest AIDS service organization in California and the second-largest in the United States, provides direct support services to men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles County.
AIDS Survival Kit T.A.S.K. is an eight hour orientation course, or "boot camp" for persons infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. It is an overview of most of the Issues surrounding this disease. T.A.S.K. will help those infected and affected know what questions to ask, and will help them to understand the answers they are given.
AIDS Treatment Information Service The HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) is your central resource for federally approved treatment guidelines for HIV and AIDS.
AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition This web site is dedicated to providing up-to-date information and links related to citizen advocacy for HIV vaccines.
Care and support for orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS The extreme vulnerability of the more than 10 million children orphaned by AIDS and the harmful effects this has on their development and that of their societies is one of the most disturbing aspects of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
Care for AIDS Children The launch of the Directory of Services for children infected and affected by HIV-AIDS gives hope to children in very poor communities, writes Mbulelo Musi The saying goes that "children are the centre of the universe". It is in this regard that, from time immemorial, the birth of a child has always been a moment of joy and great celebration among families, communities, nations and humanity at large.
Caring For Babies With AIDS Caring for Babies with AIDS is dedicated to providing compassionate and responsive services to children and families impacted by HIV and AIDS through its residential facilities and outreach programs.
Children With AIDS Project of America Now CWA offers a variety of services for children infected/affected by AIDS or drug exposed infants who will require foster or adoptive families. CWA works to create adoptive, foster, family centered care programs that are both effective and compassionate.
CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND HIV/AIDS Today adolescents of both sexes face a serious risk of HIV infection, which is the cause of AIDS. AIDS is a chronic and most often fatal disease. Despite growing understanding and awareness, HIV infection is a serious threat to both heterosexual and homosexual teens. When adolescents take certain risks, they are more likely to become infected with HIV and develop AIDS:
Commercial sexual exploitation of children in a world with HIV/AIDS The commercial sexual exploitation of children continues to be one of the most pernicious forms of child abuse. It both denies the fundamental human rights of children and has devastating psycho-social and physical consequences for them. This exploitation increasingly threatens children's right to life - as children who are sexually exploited now face the risk of infection with the HIV virus, which causes AIDS.
HIV Kids HivKids.org Helping children affected by HIV/AIDS
How Do Parents and Children Talk ABout HIV? Are parents and their kids talking? Unfortunately, not enough. A survey of pre-adolescents and their parents in a high HIV seroprevalence neighborhood found that parents overestimate how much they talk about HIV. Kids remembered less than one-fourth of HIV discussions parents said occurred. They were most likely to remember talks with the parent that were private. (5)
How to Talk to Your Children About AIDS Because one of the main ways of being infected with HIV is through sexual contact, to be able to talk about AIDS means that you first have to be able to talk with our children about sexuality
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infections in the Child Care Setting When a person is first infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), he or she may have no symptoms or may become ill with a fever, night sweats, sore throat, general tiredness, swollen lymph glands, and a skin rash lasting for a few days to a few weeks. These early symptoms then go away by themselves. However, the virus stays in the body (becomes a chronic infection) and causes increasing loss of immune function that results in the body becoming unable to fight off infections to which we are all normally exposed.
Keeping Count: HIV/AIDS and Young People According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), half of all new HIV infections in this country occur in young people under the age of 25. While the total number of American youth who have been infected with HIV is unknown, it is estimated that 20,000 young people are infected with HIV every year. That means two young Americans between the ages of 13 and 24 are contracting HIV every hour.
Kids with HIV--Transmission and Care I was getting very choked up at the Mother/Infant Care Forum (sponsored by The Cure AIDS! Network). As I watched the slides and listened to Dr. Arlene Bardequez, I started a check list of all the things "gone wrong" during my 14 hours of labor.
Mothers Voices Mothers' Voices is the only national, non-profit, grassroots organization mobilizing parents as educators and advocates for HIV prevention.
National Pediatric AIDS Network NPAN is a resource for information on children and adolescents with HIV/AIDS. NPAN provides access to information about such topics as: treatment; clinical trials; services for children and adolescents with HIV/AIDS; conferences; publications and other information resources; educational resources.
Office of National AIDS Policy The Office of National AIDS Policy will focus on coordinating our continuing domestic efforts to reduce the number of new infections in the U.S., in particular in segments of the population that are experiencing new or renewed increases in the rate of infection. In addition, the Office will be working to coordinate an increasingly integrated approach to the prevention, care and treatment of HIV/AIDS. The office will also emphasize the integration of domestic and international efforts to combat HIV/AIDS
Pediatric AIDS Foundation The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation creates a future that offers hope through pediatric research and programs worldwide to ensure children are at the forefront of every scientific breakthrough.
Protecting a New Generation from AIDS The AIDS epidemic is quickly becoming a crisis of America's youth. Today, half of the 40,000 new HIV infections each year are among people under 25. The advent of new protease drugs in the mid-1990s ended the automatic death sentence previously associated with an HIV diagnosis. But the new AIDS drugs that gave the gift of prolonged life have also resulted in a misperception of "cure," "end" and "over."
Questions and Answers About Youth and HIV/AIDS Between 40,000 and 50,000 Americans become infected with HIV every year. Half of them are between the ages of 13 and 24. That means at least two teenagers and young adults in this country are infected with HIV every hour of every day.
Sunshine For HIV Kids Sunshine For HIV Kids, Inc. is a nonprofit tax exempt (501c3) organization that identifies and raises funds for charities who directly (no bureaucrats) deliver care to children afflicted with HIV / AIDS and their families.
Surviving AIDS Welcome to the companion Web site to "Surviving AIDS,". Looks at the cutting edge of AIDS research, and what scientists are learning about preserving the immune system and marshalling the body's natural defenses against HIV to keep infected people from progressing to AIDS.
Talking to Children About HIV AIDS Some adults think that AIDS has nothing to do with children. But children hear and see the same things about AIDS that adults do. Some of this can be contradictory, inaccurate and sometimes highly prejudiced. All children are affected by this.
When HIV is Kid Stuff Living with HIV and AIDS is tough on anyone. The endless rounds of doctors' visits, the medications and their side effects, the uncertainty -- all take their toll on even the most well-informed and well-adjusted adults. How much harder, then, for the person with AIDS ("PWA") who's just a kid? Children are not just small adults, and pediatric AIDS is not just AIDS Junior. From the way the virus behaves in the body, to treatment and prophylaxis, to issues of disclosure and discrimination, the HIV-positive child faces problems that parallel those facing adults, but which differ from them in important ways.
Women and Children with HIV An Interview with Andrea Carr, President of the Board of Directors Families' and Children's AIDS Network of Chicago
