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IMPORTANT WEB SITES
This site will be periodically updated. Please also review the members of the FIAR C/SAB for links to other important organizations. If you have suggestions for sites to add to this list, please do not hesitate to contact FIAR by email to fiar@verizon.net.

For specific studies, see Current CAM Studies as well as a list of FIAR's studies.

For information on our partners, please see Gandeepam and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In addition, FIAR is working with the Blue Diamond Society in Nepal.

Clinical Research Groups

• AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
• AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA)
• AIDS Research Alliance of America
• American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
• Beth Israel: HIV Clinical Studies
• Brooklyn AIDS Task Force
• Brown University: BRUNAP Home Page
• Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research; see also the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education and Research Network of Alberta
• Pathways to Complementary Medicine - New England's largest holistic medicine clinic.
• The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY. See also their Project List.

  Nutrition

• HIVResources: Nutrition and HIV/AIDS
• HIV ReSource Review Abstracts
• Positive Nation (UK)

  HIV/AIDS Sites

• ACT UP/New York: AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
• AEGIS - the largest data warehouse dedicated to HIV disease
• AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition (ATAC): for mentoring new treatment activists. We recruit!
• AIDS Treatment Data Network
• AIDSVote.org is a joint project supported by dozens of the nation's leading HIV/AIDS service, advocacy and research organizations.
• Bailey House: New York City HIV/AIDS Housing Resource Database
• Blue Diamond Society, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Brooklyn AIDS Task Force
• CATIE: Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
• Centerwatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
• CHAMP: Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project.
• Clinton AIDS Foundation - amazing work bringing the price of antiretroviral drugs and needed diagnostics down.
• Critical Path AIDS Project. Treatment, resources, prevention and access information. An excellent site!
• Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD)
• Gay Men's Health Crisis
• The Harm Reduction Coalition and their Hepatitis C "sister site" at the Hep C Project.
• History of AIDS by Sarah Fall (not affiliated with any organization).
• HIV Fitness page by Timothy M. Brewi, BA, DTR with information on selecting personal trainers; also an excellent LINKS page.
• HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council of New York
• The HIVTools Research Group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, cHIVTools web-site
• Nelson vergel's Lipodystrophy page
• Matthew Cusick who is working to help people with HIV/AIDS fighting the injustice of job discrimination. Cirque de Soleil fired him simply because he is HIV+.
• Medibolics has information on dietary supplements and anabolic steroids.
• National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Program (NATAP)
• New Mexico AIDS Infonet
• New York Academy of Medicine
• Positively Positive, the personal journey of Bradford McIntyre
• Positives For Positives, Cheyenne, Wyoming
• Program for Wellness Restoration (PoWeR)
• Project Inform. Treatment Information and Advocacy
• Survive AIDS (formerly known as ACT UP/Golden Gate)
• Tennessee AIDS Support Services Inc. (TASSI)
• Test Postive Aware Network
• Treatment Action Group (TAG)
  
• Websites related to managing antiviral side effects (see also Houston Buyers' Club and New York Buyers' Club below for relevant links):
  IBASE UK
  The Body/Side Effect Management
  The New York Buyers' Club has documents on complementary and alternative means for managing side effects.

  U.S. Government Agencies

• Food and Drug Administration
  FDA - Dietary Supplements
• IBIDS International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
• Laboratory of Drug Discovery Research and Development, National Cancer Institute
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• NIH Office of Dietary Supplements
• NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• PubMed (access to U.S. Medline database)
• AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS)
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  Herbs and Botanical Medicine

• Alternative Medicine Homepage from the University of Pittsburgh. See also their List of Databases and page on HIV/AIDS.
• A collection of sites dedicated to unconventional and holistic therapies for the treatment of HIV/AIDS from about.com on Alternative Therapies.
• AGRICOLA: AGRICultural OnLine Access is a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library, USA
• Alternative Medicine Foundation
• American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP)
• American Botanical Council: http://www.herbalgram.org
• American Herbalists Guild
• American Herbal Pharmacopoeia
• American Indian Ethnobotany Database Foods, drugs, dyes and Fibers of Native North American Peoples
• Devan Nambiar's Home Page with links to excellent articles on HIV/AIDS, botanical and traditional medicine.
• DrWeil.com: Andrew Weil's website.
• The Gatherer: A search engine for multiple plant use databases.
• HerbMed: Electronic evidence-based resource for herbal information, with hyperlinks to clinical and scientific publications and dynamic links for automatic updating.
• Herb Research Foundation
• Herb Society of America
• Jim Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
• Medherb.com
• Michael Moore's Home Page from the director of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine.
• Michael Tierra's Planetary Herbology
• National Center for the Preservation of Medicinal Herbs
• Phytopharmacognosy
• People and Plants Online: Applied ethnobotany, promotes sustainable use of plant resources, and the reconciliation of conservation and development.
• Phytotherapies.org for herbalists, professionals.
• PLANTLAX: Mexican organization, emphasizing sustainable development of botanicals.
• Plants for a Future: from Leeds University, UK, the Species Database
• Rocky Mountain Herbal Institute: information on Chinese herbs
• Thangkas--the herbs of Tibetan Medicine from Blue Beryll
• TibetMed™,Alternative Medicine Foundation: schools, conference and resources
• Tibetan Medicine and Astrology, The Office of Tibet, the official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in London
• For an intriguing article on the use of mercury in Tibetan medicine.
• Tropical Plant Database
• United Plant Savers: The mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the US and Canada.
• Wildcrafting for Beginners

  General Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ICAM) Sites
  

• ALTVETMED: Veterinary medicine site.
• American Academy of Environmental Medicine information for environmentally triggered illnesses.
• Ask Dr. Weil:top-rated program on the HotWired Network, main feature of program is where Dr.Weil answers your questions every day.
• Association of American Indian Physicians, links to Native American health, plant, medicine, food and herb resources.
• CAM Glossary: description of complementary and alternative medicine terminology, Foundation for the Advancement of Innovative Medicine
• Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention: research division of the College of Maharishi Vedic Medicine, Fairfield, Iowa
• A Dictionary of Alternative-Medicine Methods, Jack Raso, M.S., R.D. from the American Council on Science and Health
• HANS The Health Action Network Society: registered non-profit charity in Burnaby, BC Canada, mandate is to provide information about alternative health care.
• National Center for Homeopathy
• National Indian Health Board, Denver, Colorado: "represents Tribal Governments operating their own health care delivery systems
• Natural Health Village newsletter addressing natural/alternative health issues and a town hall addressing legislative/jurisprudence issues
• Naturopathic Medicine Network: guide to natural medicine and alternative health care, contains newsletter, naturopathic physicians directory, natural pharmacy.
• Naturopathic Resources and Doctors, British Columbia Naturopathic Association
• The Physicians' Association for Anthroposophical Medicine "holistic and human-centered approach to medicine using modern medicine's anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, and diagnosis and the knowledge of the laws of the living organism these studies were outlined by Rudolf Steiner"
• PostiveHealth Article Index: contains a wide variety of articles on CAM modalities and systems with many articles containg links to web resources (not as in HIV+).
• Savvy Patients contains extensive information from mainstream and alternative medicine, including an excellent LINKS PAGE TO ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE.
• Understanding Chinese Medicine, Doc Misha's Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine: basic information Chinese Medicine with resources on choosing a practitioner, accredted schools, insurnace companies
• World Health Organization: Facts Sheets - Traditional Medicine
• World Health Organization: Publications - Traditional medicine



Acupuncture

• Acupuncture: Point of Interest, C. Seiwert, HMS Beagle, BioMedNet: overview with links
• American Oriental Bodywork Therapy Association with information on various forms of Asian bodywork therapy (such as acupressure, various forms of shiatsu, traditional Thai massage, etc.)
• Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture in Canada: links to schools, professional societies, patient resources and information on Traditional Chinese Medicine with a Canadian focus
• Healing People Acupuncture homepage
• The National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine: "common forum for discussion and development of research, education, and scientific excellence in acupuncture and oriental medicine"
• Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (with campuses in San Diego, New York and Chicago)
• USAcupuncturists.com: "established to provide trustworthy information about Traditional Chinese Medicine, including acupuncture, herbology, tui-na and other forms of treatment, to the community" with information on state licensing regulations.



Buyers' Clubs:

• Boston Buyer's Club: 1-800-435-5586.
  
• Houston Buyer's Club
• The NEW YORK BUYERS' CLUBS
  is open--and the 2005 Catalog is available!
• The
• Direct Access Alternative Information Resources (DAAIR) is closed but the web page and information they have is still up.

  Direct Action/Global Issues
  For more direct action, particularly to help people around the world have access to inexpensive medication, please see a variety of sites including the most remarkable

• ACT UP/New York, the very FIRST chapter of the AIDS Action to Unleash Power, which was formed in March, 1987. For other ACT UP chapters around the world, CLICK HERE.
• Doctors Without Border (international) and Doctors Without Borders, US
  
• Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM): includes traditional medicine
• Cheaper Diagnostic Methods: A useful resource on some of the issues is the Afford CD4 campaign.
  See also the Meeting Report, sponsored by GMHC and others.
  
• Consumer Project on Technology
• AIDS Action (re marketing costs included as "R&D").
• ICASO: Information on Compulsory Licenses
• SAATHI: Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection in India. See also Listserves list below.
  
• South Asia Against AIDS Foundation - www.SAAAIDS.org
  
• CITTA, an organization dedicated to developing hospitals, schools, clinics and resource centers to help some of the poorest areas in the world. Through Citta's Executive Director, Michael Daube, FIAR's director met Sunil Pant from Kathmandu, Nepal. Such human connections are the basis for creating change in the world! See the Nepal Project as well as the Blue Diamond Society for more information about how these unlikely meetings have blossomed.
  

  List Serves
  A variety of list serves provide daily information and correspondence on AIDS- and hepatitis-related issues around the world.
  
  

• Critical Path has several excellent ones including
  aidsact (general discussion of AIDS activist issues);
  atac (AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition) as a mentoring program for new treatment activists;
  pozhealth (discussion of issues relating to lipodystrophy);
  treatment (general treatment issues),
  healthGAP (discussion of access to medicines in developing nations) and
  
  
  For example, AIDSACT is an electronic mailing list for AIDS activists (established after the Vancouver AIDS Conference in 1996) providing a means of communication for AIDS activists who address AIDS as a POLITICAL crisis. To subscribe to AIDSACT, send a message to:
  
  listproc@critpath.org
  with no subject and a one-line message body in the form
  subscribe AIDSACT First Last
  where "First" and "Last" are your first and last names.
  
  
• Africa AIDS: To join, send a blank message to join-af-aids@healthdev.net
  
  
• Centre for International Ethnomedicinal Education and Research: an international network of ethnobotanical researchers and provides a public discussion forum and listserv to exchange information on the safe and effective use of medicinal plants.
  
  
• IPhealth (intellectual property rights as they relate to access to medicines for HIV, opportunistic infections and so forth):
  List-Subscribe: http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/ip-health
  
  
• South Asians Against the HIV Infection (SAATHII):
  To subscribe, send a blank message to: saathii-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
  
  
• AIDS-India list:
  See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIDS-INDIA
  
  
• Southeast Asian AIDS network:
  To join send a blank message to join-sea-aids@healthdev.net
  

  Journals and Professional Publications
  

• eBMJ [British Medical Journal]:Complementary Medicine articles
• Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.: indexed in MEDLINE and provides a table of content service
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine: the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated entirely to the scientific, rational evaluations of unconventional health claims. See also Health Care Reality Check
• Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients: " regular columns on different aspects of alternative health care: homeopathy, nutrition, exercise, women's health, phytomedicines and the constantly changing politics of alternative medicine. Reviews of current alternative medical literature and newly published books relating to health and healing are also included, as well as an extensive Letters-to-the-Editor section, calendar of events and health-related classified advertising."

Other Sites of Interest


• The Institute for Authentic Process Healing (IAPH)
• Landmark Healthcare, Inc. a nationwide alternative managed care company specializing in the provision of clinically supported alternative care therapies
• Milbank Memorial Fund: Enhancing the Accountability of Alternative Medicine, January 1998

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