The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers:

• Action steps and report from, "The Northwest Regional Workshop: HIV Prevention Approaches for Alcohol and Drug Use Among Men Who Have Sex With Men (September 1997)" - (PDF file - 448k - requires free viewer)
• A surveillance report on, "HIV/AIDS and Women who have Sex with Women (WSW) in the United States"
• A report entitled, "Need for Sustained HIV Prevention Among Men who Have Sex with Men: Young and Minority Men at High Risk"

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration offers a variety of resources that address the nexus between drug and alcohol use and HIV among gay men, lesbians, MSMs, and WSWs. This includes:

• its Center for Substance Abuse Prevention offers a resource guide entitled, "ATOD Resource Guide: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals"
• a research brief from the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information entitled, "HIV risk behaviors of gay and bisexual male methamphetamine users contacted through street outreach"

The Center for AIDS Policy Studies at UCSF offers:

• a special web site with information on gay men and men who have sex with men (MSMs)
• helps support a research effort on HIV prevention among MSMs called EXPLOREmen.com that is focusing on Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle

Gay Men's Health Crisis offers:

• prevention and educational materials
• information on a new HIV testing campaign targeting Black gay men
• results of a new survey entitled, "Sexual health and practices of gay, bisexual and homosexually active men in New York City"

The Body offers a special web section entitled, "Gay Men and HIV/AIDS"
 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers:

• A report entitled, "PHS Report Summarizes Current Scientific Knowledge on the Use of Post-Exposure Antiretroviral Therapy for Non-Occupational Exposures Therapy Remains Unproven: Should Not be Used Routinely"
• A web section entitled, "HIV Occupational Exposure and Management"
• A fact sheet entitled, "Preventing Occupational HIV Transmission to Health Care Workers"
• A surveillance report on, "Surveillance of Health Care Workers with HIV/AIDS"
• Another surveillance report on, "Reported Cases of AIDS and HIV Infection in Health Care Workers"
• an MMWR article entitled, "Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Health-Care Worker Exposures to HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis" (PDF file - 384k - requires free viewer)

The Bureau of Prisons, under the Department of Justice, is responsible for HIV/AIDS care and prevention to those incarcerated in Federal prisons. This is accomplished by its Health Services Division.
 

The National Institute of Justice, part of the US Department of Justice, has several resources, including an on-line versions of its reports:

• "1996-1997 Update: HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB in Correctional Facilities Series: Issues and Practices"
• " Public Health/Corrections Collaborations: Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS, STDs, and TB" (requires free viewer)
   

The Center for AIDS Policy Studies at UCSF offers:

• a fact sheet entitled, "What are Inmates HIV Prevention Needs?"
• a special web section entitled, "Prisons"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers:

• an MMWR article entitled, "Success in Implementing Public Health Service Guidelines to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of HIV - Louisiana, Michigan, New Jersey, and South Carolina, 1993, 1995, and 1996" (PDF file - 185k - requires free viewer)
• an MMWR article entitled, "Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection" (PDF file - 465k - requires free viewer)
• an MMWR article entitled, "Public Health Service Task Force Recommendations for the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant Women Infected with HIV-1 for Maternal Health and for Reducing Perinatal HIV-1 Transmission in the United States" (PDF file - 348k - requires free viewer)

The Food and Drug Administration offers:

• a fact sheet entitled, "Antiretroviral HIV Drug Approvals and Pediatric Labeling Information"
• a fact sheet entitled, "Regulations Requiring Manufacturers to Assess the Safety and Effectiveness of New Drugs and Biological Products in Pediatric Patients"

The National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health, offers:

• a web site on its Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group
• a fact sheet entitled, "Pediatric AIDS"
• an article entitled, "Pediatric HIV Clinical Trials in the United States"
   

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers:

• an MMWR article entitled, "Update: Syringe Exchange Programs -United States, 1997" (PDF file - 260k - requires free viewer)
• a fact sheet entitled, "Dangerous Intersection of Drug Use and Sexual HIV Transmission Points to Critical Need for Comprehensive HIV Prevention Among Drug Users"
• a publication entitled, "HIV Prevention Among Drug Users: A Resource Book for Community Planners and Program Managers"
• a fact sheet entitled, "HIV Prevention Bulletin: Medical Advice for Persons Who Inject Illicit Drugs"

The National Institute of Drug Abuse, one of the National Institutes of Health, offers:

• a special web site entitled, "Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS"
• a bibliography of its HIV/AIDS-related publications
• a fact sheet entitled, "Drug Abuse and AIDS"
• summary notes from "Research Synthesis Symposium on the Prevention of HIV in Drug Abuse"
• an article co-authored with the CDC entitled, "CDC Report Highlights Link Between Drug Abuse and Spread of HIV"
• a special research funding announcement entitled, "NIDA Encourages More AIDS-Related Research"
• a special report from the NIDA Director on research related to HIV, drug abuse, and youth entitled, "Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS: Research Findings (from 9/97)"
• a message from the NIDA Director entitled, "NIDA Responds to the Changing Dynamics of the AIDS Epidemic"

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officers offers the following:

• policy statements on HIV/AIDS and injection drug use (this is a PDF file - 33k and 14k respectively - requires free viewer)
• "Preventing HIV Infection Among Drug Injectors: The Role of Sterile Syringes and Substance Abuse Treatment" (this is a PDF file - 72k - requires free viewer)
• "HIV Prevention Programs and Policies Targeting Injection Drug Users: A Case Study of Massachusetts and Washington State" (this is a PDF file - 503k - requires free viewer)

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides:

• HIV/AIDS surveillance reports on new AIDS cases and HIV infections.
• It's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) offers a January, 1998 article entitled, "AIDS Among Persons Aged > 50 Years - United States, 1991-1996" (PDF file - 347k - requires free viewer)

The Center for AIDS Policy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco offers

• a special web section on HIV and older adults
• a fact sheet entitled, "What Are HIV Prevention Needs of Adults Over 50?" (also available in Spanish)

POZ Magazine offers an article entitled, "The Age of Ignorance"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers:

• A report entitled, "Young People at Risk - Epidemic Shifts Further Toward Young Women and Minorities"
• A fact sheet entitled, "Critical Need to Pay Attention to HIV Prevention for African Americans"
• A paper on, "Impact of HIV/AIDS on Hispanics in the United States"
• A slide set on HIV/AIDS surveillance by race/ethnicity
• Funding notice for, "Community-Based HIV Prevention Services and Capacity-Building Assistance (CBA) to Organizations Serving Gay Men of Color at Risk for HIV Infection"
• an MMWR article entitled, "HIV/AIDS Among American Indians and Alaskan Natives - United States, 1981--1997" (PDF file - 240k - requires free viewer)

The National Institutes of Health offers the following:

• NIH is sponsoring a "Training and Career Development Workshop on HIV Prevention Research For and By Racial and Ethnic Minorities", August 28 - 29, 1999, in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Its Office of AIDS Research has a web site on minority initiatives at the NIH
• A paper entitled, "National Institutes of Health Fact Sheet on AIDS Research and Minority Populations" (PDF file - 203k - requires free viewer)
• Its National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases offers a fact sheet entitled, "Minorities and HIV Infection," part of a special web section entitled, "Minority Programs and Initiatives"

The Office of Minority Health offers information on funding available to address HIV and AIDS in racial and ethnic minorities, including:

• "CDC Announces Additional Funds for HIV Prevention Capacity-Building Projects for African American Community-Based Organizations and Communities" (PDF file - 154k - requires free viewer)
• "CDC Releases New HIV education/prevention grant program for African American Faith-Based Organizations"
• "HHS Announces Three Sites For Special Crisis Response Teams To Battle HIV/AIDS In Minority Communities"

The Office on Women's Health of the US Department of Health and Human Services offers a fact sheet entitled, "Hispanic Women and HIV/AIDS"
 

The Center for AIDS Policy Studies at UCSF offers:

• Special web sections on African Americans, Latinos and Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and Asians and Pacific Islanders
• A report entitled, "Up From Within: HIV/AIDS Prevention in Communities of Color HIV InSite Roundtable, 8/13/99"

The Harvard AIDS Institutes maintains:

• a "Leading for Life" web site that offers a variety of information on HIV/AIDS in African-American and Latino populations
• a helpful list of links to organizations addressing HIV/AIDS in the African-American and Latino communities

The National Minority AIDS Council offers the following:

• a newsletter article entitled, "The HIV/AIDS Epidemic Among Latinos in the US" (PDF file - 440k - requires free viewer)
• a newsletter article entitled, "State of Emergency: HIV/AIDS Among African Americans" (PDF file - 567k - requires free viewer)

The Body offers:

• a list of advocacy and support resources for African-Americans living with HIV and AIDS
• a special web section entitled, "Race/Ethnicity and HIV/AIDS"

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the following:

• a fact sheet entitled, "Critical Need to Pay Attention to HIV Prevention for Women: Minority and Young Women Bear Greatest Burden"
• a fact sheet entitled, "HIV/AIDS & Women who have Sex with Women (WSW), U.S."
• a fact sheet entitled, "Young People at Risk - Epidemic Shifts Further Toward Young Women and Minorities"
• a slide series entitled, "HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Women"

The Food and Drug Administration and its Office of Women's Health offers:

• a web site on food safety entitled, "Information for Women about AIDS and other Immune Disorders"
• a fact sheet entitled, "Women and AIDS"
• a special report entitled, "Equality In Clinical Trials: Drugs and Gender"
• a fact sheet entitled, "Enrollment of Women in HIV Clinical Trials"
• a "talk paper" entitled, "FDA Proposes Rule on Women in Clinical Trials"

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health, offers:

• a fact sheet entitled, "NIAID Resources for Studying HIV/AIDS in Women"
• a fact sheet entitled, "Women and HIV"
• a fact sheet entitled, "Topical Microbicide Research: Developing New Tools to Protect Women from HIV/AIDS and Other STDs"

The Office on Women's Health of the US Department of Health and Human Services offers:

• a special web section on HIV/AIDS and Women's Health
• the National Women's Health Information Center, a gateway to information on women's health
• a fact sheet entitled, "Hispanic Women and HIV/AIDS"