International Aids Relief

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Overview of AIDS

Wikipedia's AIDS page provides a wide variety of information on the subject. If you are unsure about what exactly AIDS is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids will give you a excellent overview of the crisis.

Each of the following links also have a great deal of information on the crisis:

http://www.aids.org/factSheets/101-what-is-aids.html

An excellent website in regards to AIDS. It is extremely organized, as it provides information by region, as well as a very in depth (but easy to read) overview of the crisis.

http://www.avert.org/aids.htm

International AIDS Relief and Information by Region

American AIDS Relief and Information

HIV and AIDS in America

General information about AIDS in the United States. Includes important statistics, preventative measures, treatment options, and details how far the U.S. has come since AIDS started spreading in the 1980's. Hannah Witt

http://www.avert.org/america.htm

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The U.S. President's Plan for Aids Relief

This link provides information to President Bush's (and the American Government's) efforts to improve the quality of life of the millions facing AIDS in Africa. Over the next 5 years, $15 Billion dollars will be provided in order to prevent further spread of the disease, as well as care for and medicating people who have already been diagnosed. Matt Duffy

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030129-1.html

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The U.S. Government's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: PEPFAR

Includes information about the PEPFAR plan, the latest results of the program, the countries the program is helping, and the President's annual report to Congress. Interesting site with lots of information about specific countries and what the U.S. is specifically doing to aid other nations. Hannah Witt

http://www.pepfar.gov

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World Vision: Building a Better World for Children

Gives an alternative approach to AIDS relief. "The Hope Initiative is an unprecedented campaign to address the needs of children, families, and communities that have been devastated by the global HIV and AIDS pandemic." Pasha Tabatabai

http://www.worldvision.org/Worldvision/comms2.nsf/stable/hope_child_sponsorship?Open&campaign=1193510&cmp=KNC-1193510&source=goog&keyword={keyword}

European AIDS Relief and Information

HIV and AIDS in United Kingdom

General information about AIDS in the United Kingdom. Includes important statistics and trends in the U.K. Hannah Witt

http://www.avert.org/uksummary.htm

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HIV and AIDS in the Ukraine

The article discusses the prominence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in Ukraine. It is stated that the country has been labeled AIDS capital of Europe for an estimated 477,000 inhabitants having the virus, which was a few hundred cases only in 1994. In details, 75 percent of the infected are not aware of their status while 46 people daily are infected, aging between 20 and 40. Information about the causes and prevention of the disease is elaborated. Hannah Witt

 http://proxy.foley.gonzaga.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=26475842&site=ehost-live

Database: Academic Search Premiere

Other Regions AIDS Relief and Information

Aids in Africa

This website provides an overview of the AIDS crisis. There is information about the numbers of deaths and other affects AIDS has made in Africa. FoAlso the website provides information on the efforts (and lack thereof) of African leaders. Matt Duffy

<a href="http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/AIDS.asp">

The United Nations Millennium Project (2005) describes the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a ‘global catastrophe, threatening social and economic stability in the most affected areas, while spreading relentlessly into new regions’. Multilateral institutions under the leadership of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS and World Health Organization have been charged with coordinating the worldwide response. Yet with attention and funding diverted between bilateral, regional and multilateral aid providers, and little discernible success in containing the global epidemic to date, it remains an open question whether traditional global institutions are able to effectively combat HIV/AIDS. It is argued that bilateral relationships are still heavily relied upon at present as traditional multilateral arrangements struggle for resources and political attention. The critical questions discussed here are whether global institutions should, can and will respond effectively to the HIV/AIDS crisis. This analysis finds that the most readily organised and deployed global response will likely involve an alliance of public and private agencies that can escape some of the domestic, political and organisational constraints inherent in existing HIV/AIDS funding arrangements. Ultimately, newer hybrid arrangements that have emerged recently, like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, may offer a more enduring global regime to control the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The corollary is that UN agencies alone in their traditional form, hampered by multilateral practicalities, will be less effective. Hannah Witt

[An international public health crisis: can global institutions respond effectively to HIV/AIDS?]

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Statistics

This website provides a multitude of statistics, surveys,and census from the American people. Furthermore it provides a basic overview of the United States' plan for AIDS relief. Topics addressed include: PEPFAR, laboratories,women and children's health, related diseases, preventative measures, and solutions to the current AIDS epidemic.

In order to examine the magnitude of this problem, it is important to have the most up to date facts on the AIDS epidemic. The website provides a constantly updating death toll of the number of people who have died from AIDS, and how many have been infected by HIV. As of Saturday, March 29th, the total number of deaths 34,542,000 and 51,037,000 infected. Caitlin Hafla/ Matt Duffy

http://www.kwanzaakeepers.com/africa-aids-death-count/africa-aids-death-count.htm

This website provides very organized and current world AIDS statistics. My Tran

http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm

This site gives the breakdown of the US assistance to AIDS relief in Africa. Also, there is the priorities of the US gov't in helping Africa. Everything here is basic background info, but necessary to understand the relief effort as a whole. Pasha Tabatabai

http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/

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Medicine, Treatment, and Prevention

An extensive amount of importance stressed in AIDS Relief involves the treatment, medical help, and education available to those people who are already diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. This website contributes the basic knowledge of research and therapeutics for patients. Caitlin Hafla

http://www.thewellproject.org/en_US/Treatment_and_Trials/index.jsp

http://www.centerforaids.org/?gclid=CK29tIqdypICFRyXiQodAX0hnA

The BBC news weighs in on the improvement of AIDS treatment. There is still no "cure," however, a combination of medicines can help to slow the disease.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/background_briefings/aids/342330.stm

Plan for AIDS Relief

The President Plan for Aids Relief

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030129-1.html

This link provides information to President Bush's (and the American Government's) efforts to improve the quality of life of the millions facing AIDS in Africa. Over the next 5 years, $15 Billion dollars will be provided in order to prevent further spread of the disease, as well as care for and medicating people who have already been diagnosed. Matt Duffy

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[The U.S. Government's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: PEPFAR]

Includes information about the PEPFAR plan, the latest results of the program, the countries the program is helping, and the President's annual report to Congress. Interesting site with lots of information about specific countries and what the U.S. is specifically doing to aid other nations. Hannah Witt

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http://www.worldvision.org/Worldvision/comms2.nsf/stable/hope_child_sponsorship?Open&campaign=1193510&cmp=KNC-1193510&source=goog&keyword={keyword}

Gives an alternative approach to AIDS relief. "The Hope Initiative is an unprecedented campaign to address the needs of children, families, and communities that have been devastated by the global HIV and AIDS pandemic."Pasha Tabatabai

PEPFAR facts

[USAID Health]

Provides links to multiple fact sheets pertaining to PEPFAR. Pat Moore

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http://www.pepfar.gov/press/fourth_annual_report/99738.htm

This website provides more information about the Presidents emergency plan for AIDS relief. It is an outline of PEPFAR and some statistics of the trends of AIDs.

(Sarah McNurlin)

Aids in Asia

http://www.avert.org/aids-asia.htm#top

This website gives a semi-detailed general information about how prevalent AIDS is in asia, their plan to fight AIDS, and estimates of AIDS population in different Asian countries. My Tran

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