PATIENT EDUCATION

The following are links to consumer health and education websites that we at Maple Leaf Medical Clinic feel provide useful information.

As these websites are independently maintained, we cannot be responsible for the accuracy of information found in these sites.

If you have any concerns or questions about the information you find, please consult your physician who should be able to give you some clarification.

HIV

• The Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource - provide information on HIV prevention, care, and treatment
• Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE) - provides HIV treatment information
• HIV Medication Guide - information pamphlets on medications used to treat HIV. Shows interactions with different drugs.
• HIV Insite - a website for general HIV information
• RELAY MAGAZINE - Relay is a magazine published for people living with HIV and distributed either directly through a
free subscription in Canada or through doctors’ offices or ASOs. The topics are set by the readers and an editorial group to respond to the issues that people are interested in. It is published by Parhurst Publishing and made possible in 2010 through unrestricted educational grants from Bristol-MyersSquibb and Gilead Sciences.

Lists of HIV Resouces/Links

• A comprehensive list of HIV/AIDS links - that are not specifically for researchers.
• Journal Watch for articles about HIV/AIDS - summary and comments on published articles
• Positively Positive - a Canadian, Bradford McIntyre, has a website dedicated to providing HIV & AIDS awareness- alist of over 500 links.

WOMAN AND HIV

Blueprint for Action on Women and HIV/AIDS

A broad based group of leading health care advocates, people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHIV/AIDS) and other diseases, doctors, researchers, and community groups formed the “Blueprint for Action on Women and HIV/AIDS,” a coalition to combat HIV/AIDS in women and girls.  The Blueprint coalition has developed a Manifesto that outlines their demands which must be met in order for the issue of women and HIV/AIDS to be addressed effectively both domestically and internationally.

Women and HIV

• HIV Treatment in Pregnancy - Hospital for Sick Children- Mother Risk
• WORLD - an Information & Support Network By, For and About Women with HIV/AIDS
• Women and AIDS Virtual Education (WAVE) - your online access to support and information around women and HIV
• Global Campaign for Microbicides -an international coalition looking to accelerate access to new HIV prevention options
• Stephen Lewis Foundation - helps to ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa at the grassroots level.

Facial Lipoatrophy

• Face Forward Foundation - help people effectively manage both the physical aspects and psychological ramifications of living with HIV
• Bioalcamid Information - a treatment for facial lypoatrophy
• The Body- Lipoatrophy Resource Centre - great resource for information on lipoatrophy

EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Dr David Fletcher from Maple Leaf Medical Clinic provides HIV/Hepatitis C and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction-related education for physicians, medical students, pharmacists, AIDS Service Organizations and people living with HIV/AIDS and/or Hepatitis C.

Hepatitis C/HIV co-Infection Program - An educational program to learn more about hepatitis C and its treatment in HIV infected individuals.

Hepatitis C Education Program - An educational program to learn more about hepatitis C and its treatment.

Cardiovascular Risks and HIV Infection - A cardiovascular risk reduction program.

HIV 101 - New to HIV?  - A session to help you understand what this diagnosis means to you

Hepatitis Information

• All About Hepatitis C - is designed to help you learn more about
• Canadian Liver Foundation - is a resource for all Canadians who want to learn more about liver health and liver disease
• HIV and Hepatitis - information on coinfection of hep B & C with HIV

General Health

• Bed Bugs Information Sheet - everything you ever wanted to know about bedbuds
• The STD Guide - this is a resource with explicit images
• Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) - learn ways to help gain control of your genital herpes
• Treveler's Health Information - information by destination and vaccination requirements

Conferences & Research Organizations

• Ontario HIV Treatment Network - is dedicated to ensuring excellence in care and treatment of people living with HIV in Ontario
• Canadian Association for HIV research (CAHR) -dedicated to fostering collaboration among all researchers working in HIV research, improving the quality of HIV research and advancing its cause
• Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) - Listing of some of the trials in Canada
• Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)- search abstracts and review research from past conferences
• IAS International AIDS Society - includes information on IAS sponsored conferences and meetings as well as news briefs on HIV/AIDS