E-drug: New HIV & AIDS e-mail newsletter
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HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice� is an email newsletter for
doctors, nurses, other health care workers and community
treatment advocates working in limited-resource settings, to be
launched, free of charge, on Thursday 13 March 2003.
The newsletter is published by NAM, the UK-based HIV information
charity behind www.aidsmap.com. The newsletter will be edited by
Julian Meldrum, NAM's international editor, <julian@nam.org.uk>.
A voluntary advisory panel, of 23 medical practitioners (from the
public, private and NGO sectors), academic researchers and people
from community organisations, working in middle-income and
low-income countries, is central to this newsletter.
The panel will guide the development of the newsletter and
comment on key issues from their experience of implementing HIV
and AIDS treatment. Further volunteers are welcomed.
Further information (including a web-based archive) is available at:
http://www.aidsmap.com/main/hatip.asp
* To subscribe, please follow the instructions on that page, or set
out below, and do NOT reply to this email.
GOALS OF HIV & AIDS TREATMENT IN PRACTICE
Our goal is to consider, in practical terms, how appropriate and
effective treatment, including but not limited to ARVs, can become
a reality for all who need it.
We acknowledge in this title that for medicines to be effective in
the real world, other things are important besides the supply of
drugs. These begin with the relationships between treatment
providers and people with HIV. Beyond this, effective treatment
depends on wider patterns of practical and psychological support
and care within families and communities.
While the political and international financial context is very
important for access to treatment and care, other forums exist for
discussion of those issues and so they will not be covered in "HIV
& AIDS Treatment in Practice", except as links to aidsmap news
stories.
SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE NEWSLETTER:
** Each issue will review one major topic in HIV & AIDS treatment.
In the first few issues, we will be looking at implementing
co-trimoxazole prophylaxis, fixed-dose ARV combinations, and
treating active TB while giving ARVs at the same time.
** You can order further articles, providing more detail and
supplementary information, to be sent to you by e-mail. This
reduces the amount of time you have to spend on the internet.
** Each newsletter will contain specialist comment from doctors
with expertise in delivering ARVs and AIDS treatment in resource-
limited settings.
** Each edition will contain up to date information on ARVs and
how they are being used in resource-limited settings.
** All articles are medically reviewed to ensure accuracy, balance
and relevance.
** The newsletter is NOT sponsored by any pharmaceutical
company.
WHO IS IT FOR?
* anyone directly involved in providing HIV and AIDS treatment in
limited resource settings
* anyone planning the development of treatment and care services
in limited resource settings
FREQUENCY
This e-mail newsletter is due to appear twice every month.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
If you have web access, sign up here:
<http://www.aidsmap.com/components/subscribe.asp>
For people who have internet email access only, please send an
email with your name, email address and the country in which you
work to: hatip@nam.org.uk <mailto:hatip@nam.org.uk>
with the words "add HATIP list" in the subject-line.
REPRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION
While the newsletter is only available in English and by email (or
from a web-based archive), permission for republication and
distribution in different formats and translation into different
languages is freely granted to community-based and not-for-profit
organisations, provided the source is acknowledged and an
electronic copy of any translation is supplied to NAM.
ABOUT NAM
NAM was established in 1987 and has been publishing information
on HIV treatment for people with HIV and health care professionals
since 1991. NAM also runs an award-winning website,
<http://www.aidsmap.com> in partnership with the International
HIV/AIDS Alliance and the British HIV Association. NAM originally
stood for 'National AIDS Manual', the UK's first comprehensive
guide to HIV prevention, care and services. NAM now publishes
more than a dozen directories and manuals each year.
For more information about NAM and its services, use the link
below:
<http://www.aidsmap.com/about/nam/about_nam.asp#NAM>
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