Chapter 18 Sexually Transmitted Diseases
American College Health Association: Produces brochures on STDs, alcohol use, acquaintance rape, and other college health issues.
American Social Health Association (ASHA): Provides written information and referrals on STDs; sponsors support groups for people with herpes and HPV.
CDC Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Provides statistics and information about the prevention and treatment of STDs.
CDC National Prevention Information Network: Provides extensive information and links on HIV/AIDS and other STDs.
Go Ask Alice: Sponsored by the Columbia University Health Service, this sexual health portion of this site provides answers to student questions about sexually transmitted diseases, condoms, safer sex, and related topics.
Journal of the American Medical Association STDs Center: Provides daily news summaries, patient information, expert advice, and glossaries.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): Provides up-to-date publications about STDs and information on current research.
WHO Office of HIV/AIDS and STDs: Provides information on international statistics and prevention efforts.
AIDS Clock: Sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund, this site is a counter tracking the current number of people infected with HIV worldwide.
The Body/A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Information Resource: Provides basic information about HIV—prevention, testing, treatment—and links to related sites; includes an online HIV/STDs risk assessment.
CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention: Provides statistics, fact sheets, answers to frequently asked questions, links to related sites, and many other HIV/AIDS resources.
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies: Information on, and evaluation of, various approaches to HIV prevention.
FDA: Testing Yourself for HIV-1, the Virus that Causes AIDS: Provides information about approved and unapproved home testing kids for HIV.
Harvard AIDS Institute: Provides resources and links on research into basic aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
HIV InSite: Gateway to AIDS Knowledge: Provides information about prevention, education, testing, treatment, statistics, clinical trials, and new developments. The AIDS Basics section provides answers to frequently asked questions about transmission, symptoms, and prevention.
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS: Provides statistics and information on the international HIV/AIDS situation; site features individual country profiles that include general health data as well as estimates of the number of AIDS deaths, AIDS orphans, and people currently living with HIV/AIDS.
Journal of the American Medical Association HIV/AIDS Center: Provides daily news summaries, patient information, expert advice, and glossaries.
Kaiser Family Foundation Daily HIV/AIDS Report: Provides daily news on HIV/AIDS.
NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt: Includes the story behind the quilt, images of quilt panels, and information and links relating to HIV infection.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID): AIDS Publications: Includes fact sheets, brochures, and research news about HIV/AIDS.
HIV/AIDS Treatment Information
AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS)
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID): AIDS Vaccines
Other Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Many of the general sites listed above provide extensive information on individual STDs; see especially the following:
American Social Health Association STDs information
Hepatitis B Foundation: Provides materials about risk factors, prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
Herpes Resource Center: Provides information and support for people with herpes.
National Vaginitis Association: Information on symptoms, causes, and treatments for vaginitis.
The Body: Forum on Safe Sex and HIV Prevention: Provides answers to frequently asked questions about safe sex and an ask-the-expert feature that allows individuals to submit new questions.
Condomania Online: Getting Educated Safer Sex Guide: A commercial site that includes useful advice on using condoms and safer sex.
HIV InSite: Safer Sex Information: Includes safer sex guidelines for a variety of audiences.
Latex Love: Sponsored by the makers of Trojan condoms, this site includes directions for condom use and sample dialogues for overcoming excuses for not using condoms.
Safer Sex Page: Provides information on a variety of topics related to safer sex and STDs prevention; includes audio of sample dialogues for talking about safer sex and condom use with partners. (Information is geared to people of all sexual orientations, and some is explicit.)
See also the listings for Chapters 6 (contraception) and 17 (immunity and infection).
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