HIV/AIDS Resources

• Library on AIDS
• HIV Wisdom for Older Women
• HIV/AIDS and Prevention Options for Women
• HIVSTOPSWITHME
• Managing Desire
• National Center for HIV, STD & TB Prevention
• Stepping Stones
• AGAP: Awareness Group on AIDS Prevention
• AIDS Council Project H.O.P.E.
• Black AIDS Institute
• Black Coaltion for AIDS Prevention
• Friends For Friends
• National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
• AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition
• Capitol Area Vaccine Effort
• Dogwood Center
• HIV Testing
• HIV Vaccine Trials Network
• HIV Vaccines Site
• International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
• Needle and Sex Education Outreach Network (NEON)
• Surviving AIDS: Search for a Vaccine

• AIDS & Sex Education from AVERT, in the U.K.
• AIDS & Young People from AVERT, in the U.K.
• Asian AIDS/HIV Information covering more than a dozen Asian communities
• Asian Harm Reduction Network from Chiangmai, Thailand
• HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies research on the prevention of HIV transmission
• National Prevention Information Network from the U.S. CDC

EVENT REVIEW DEC 18 2002

Physician and former deputy governor of Cross River state in the second republic, Dr. Offoboche has indicted medical doctors for the spread of HIV/AIDS besides the identified source of the dreaded disease.
Dr Offoboche who said this recently at the launching of the SAC-AIDS project sponsored by Concerned Youths and SPUTE Travels at the NICON Hilton Hotel, Abuja said doctors often overlook infected blood if they are faced with the choice of saving a life or allowing it to die in an emergency situation.In such dilemma, he averred, doctors prefer to use infected blood with the hope that the blood could give some ten or more years of life to the patient.

The physician, who is now on private practice, also blamed laboratory experts for the lapses and called on the government to compel HIV/AIDS test on all Nigerians.In his speech at the occasion, proprietor of Winners Diagnostic Centre and claimant to cure of HIV, Dr. Jacob Abdullahi emphasized on the education of the youth and the working class as well as the involvement of the family and religious organizations in this regard.
Dr. Abdullahi said “women are the most susceptible group to this disease A man may have sex with an infected woman and may not pick the HIV virus but a man that is infected can easily pass the virus through one deposit of the seminal fluid. So women and children are prone to this”.

HIV/AIDS in Africa is a plague of a severity unparalleled in recent human history Africa has more than two thirds of all HIV/AIDS cases with some African countries having over 250/a of the population infected. There were 3.8 million new infections in sub-Saharan Africa in the year 2000. In economic terms, it is estimated that AIDS cost 1% of the economic growth every year”, she said.

At least 17 million Africans’ she stressed, have died of HIV/AIDS and several more are expected to die in the next few years against the backdrop of poor health care delivery in Africa caused “by lack of resources occasioned by the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAP) of the 1980s and 1990s adding that medicines mostly sourced from abroad are often expensive.