To learn how to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, check these out

Information on HIV

HIV Basics

http://www.catie.ca/en/basics/hiv-and-aids

HIV Prevention

http://www.catie.ca/en/prevention

Protecting Yourself and Others

Safer sex and safer drug use

• Sexual Health and Safer Sex
• Positive Prevention

• Safer Drug Use and Harm Reduction

Testing to find out if you have HIV

• HIV Testing and Diagnosis

Information primarily for people living with HIV

Living with HIV – Starting points

http://www.catie.ca/en/practical-guides/starting-points

HIV Basics

http://www.catie.ca/en/basics/hiv-and-aids

HIV Treatment

http://www.catie.ca/en/treatment

HIV Prevention

http://www.catie.ca/en/prevention

“Managing Your Health” 

A Practical Guide for Healthy Living for People Living with HIV

(Click on any underlined text to access the content of this guide)

Testing and Diagnosis  Testing to find out if you have HIV

• HIV Testing and Diagnosis

Newly Diagnosed  What you need to know if you have just been diagnosed with HIV

• Newly Diagnosed with HIV

Living with HIV  Health-related issues for people living with HIV

• What Does HIV Do to You?
• Monitoring Your Health
• Side Effects and Symptoms
• Long-Term Health
• HIV and Pregnancy
• Disclosure
• HIV in Specific Population

Living with HIV/Hep C Co-Infection  What you need to know if you are co-infected with both HIV and hepatitis C

Complementary Therapies and Nutrition  Complementary therapies and healthy eating

• Complementary and Alternative Therapies
• Nutrition
• Vitamins and Supplements

Protecting Yourself and Others

Safer sex and safer drug use

• Sexual Health and Safer Sex
• Positive Prevention
• Safer Drug Use and Harm Reduction

Information primarily for activists

Strategies at the international level to address HIV and related issues:

• 90-90-90: An ambitious treatment target to help end the AIDS epidemic – UNAIDS
• Draft global health sector strategies: Viral hepatitis, 2016 – 2021 – World Health Organization (WHO)
• Draft global health sector strategies: HIV, 2016-2021 – World Health Organization (WHO)
• Draft global health sector strategies: Sexually transmitted infections, 2016-2021– World Health Organization (WHO)

Epidemiology of HIV

• UNAIDS
• HIV/AIDS data and statistics – WHO
• Estimates of global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV, 1980–2015: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 – The Lancet

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) resources

PrEP has proven effective in preventing of HIV transmission among key most-at-risk populations.

http://www.catie.ca/en/prep

http://www.catie.ca/en/pif/fall-2016/prepping-prep-resources-and-tools-pre-exposure-prophylaxis

http://www.prepwatch.org/  PrEP Watch is a clearinghouse for PrEP data, additional research, cost, access and advocacy efforts across the globe. Scroll down their Home Page for a map and list of countries with demonstration projects and countries where Truvada (Tenofovir) has been approved for use as PrEP.

Guides for health care delivery

For the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities

Lesbians

• Caring for lesbian health: a resource for Canadian health care providers, policy makers, planners – Health Canada
• Asking the Right Questions 2: Talking With Clients About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Mental Health, Counselling and Addiction Settings – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men

• Engaging with Men who have Sex with Men in the Clinical Setting: A Primer for Physicians, Nurses and Other Health Care Providers – Global Forum on MSM & HIV
• Asking the Right Questions 2: Talking With Clients About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Mental Health, Counselling and Addiction Settings – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Men who have Sex with Men and Transgender People: Recommendations for a Public Health Approach – World Health Organization (WHO)

Transgender people

• Care of the HIV-Infected Transgender Patient – World Professional Association of Transgender Health
• Taking Charge: A Handbook for Health Care and Social Service Providers Working with Trans People – Cactus Montreal
• Asking the Right Questions 2: Talking With Clients About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Mental Health, Counselling and Addiction Settings – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Men who have Sex with Men and Transgender People: Recommendations for a Public Health Approach – World Health Organization (WHO)
• Guidelines for the Primary Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People – UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health

Part one of this content (up to “Information primarily for activists” ) was originally published by CATIE, Canada’s source for HIV and hepatitis C information.  For more information, contact CATIE at info@catie.ca.   Part two was compiled by Denis LeBlanc, 76Crimes Editor Emeritus and long time HIV+ activist.  This is by no means a complete list  – many nations provide excellent HIV/AIDS information geared to their specific populations.