[procaare] HIV & AIDS Treatment In Practice: new e-newsletter

["Julian Meldrum" <procaare@healthnet.org>]

HIV & AIDS Treatment In Practice: a new e-mail newsletter
- Julian Meldrum, UK
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'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors, nurses, other
health care workers and community treatment advocates working in limited-resource
settings, to be launched, free of charge, on Thursday 13 March 2003.

The newsletter is published by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity behind
www.aidsmap.com. The newsletter will be edited by Julian Meldrum, NAM 's international
editor, julian@nam.org.uk <mailto:julian@nam.org.uk>

A voluntary advisory panel, of 23 medical practitioners (from the public, private and NGO
sectors), academic researchers and people from community organisations, working in
middle-income and low-income countries, is central to this newsletter.

The panel will guide the development of the newsletter and comment on key issues from
their experience of implementing HIV and AIDS treatment. Further volunteers are welcomed.

Further information (including a web-based archive) is available at:
http://www.aidsmap.com/main/hatip.asp

*To subscribe, please follow the instructions on that page, or set out below, and do NOT
reply to this email.

GOALS OF HIV & AIDS TREATMENT IN PRACTICE

Our goal is to consider, in practical terms, how appropriate and effective treatment,
including but not limited to ARVs, can become a reality for all who need it.

We acknowledge in this title that for medicines to be effective in the real world, other
things are important besides the supply of drugs. These begin with the relationships
between treatment providers and people with HIV. Beyond this, effective treatment depends
on wider patterns of practical and psychological support and care within families and
communities.

While the political and international financial context is very important for access to
treatment and care, other forums exist for discussion of those issues and so they will not
be covered in 'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice', except as links to aidsmap news stories.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE NEWSLETTER:

**Each issue will review one major topic in HIV & AIDS treatment. In the first few issues,
we will be looking at implementing co-trimoxazole prophylaxis, fixed-dose ARV
combinations, and treating active TB while giving ARVs at the same time.

**You can order further articles, providing more detail and supplementary information, to
be sent to you by e-mail. This reduces the amount of time you have to spend on the
internet.

**Each newsletter will contain specialist comment from doctors with expertise in
delivering ARVs and AIDS treatment in resource-limited settings.

**Each edition will contain up to date information on ARVs and how they are being used in
resource-limited settings.

**All articles are medically reviewed to ensure accuracy, balance and relevance.

**The newsletter is NOT sponsored by any pharmaceutical company.

WHO IS IT FOR?

 * anyone directly involved in providing HIV and AIDS treatment in limited resource
settings

 * anyone planning the development of treatment and care services in limited resource
settings

FREQUENCY

This e-mail newsletter is due to appear twice every month.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE

If you have web access, sign up here:
<http://www.aidsmap.com/components/subscribe.asp>

For people who have internet email access only, please send an email with your name, email
address and the country in which you work to: hatip@nam.org.uk <mailto:hatip@nam.org.uk>

with the words "add HATIP list" in the 'subject' line.

REPRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION

While the newsletter is only available in English and by email (or from a web-based
archive), permission for republication and distribution in different formats and
translation into different languages is freely granted to community-based and
not-for-profit organisations, provided the source is acknowledged and an electronic copy
of any translation is supplied to NAM.

ABOUT NAM

NAM was established in 1987 and has been publishing information on HIV treatment for
people with HIV and health care professionals since 1991. NAM also runs an award-winning
website, <http://www.aidsmap.com> in partnership with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance
and the British HIV Association NAM originally stood for `National AIDS Manual`, the UK's
first comprehensive guide to HIV prevention, care and services. NAM now publishes more
than a dozen directories and manuals each year.

For more information about NAM and its services, use the link below:
<http://www.aidsmap.com/about/nam/about_nam.asp#NAM>

Julian Meldrum
E-mail: julian@nam.org.uk
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