Patient Education Information

CDC Recommends Routine HIV Testing - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommend HIV screening for all patients ages 13 through 64. Read more about it at this link.

How to Protect Yourself from AIDS - The Food and Drug Administration has produced this easy-to-read fact sheet.

HIV and AIDS: How to Reduce Your Risk - FamilyDoctor.org provides this information.

HIV Infections: The Basics - The Journal of the American Medical Association has created this information.

HIV Testing - Click here for information about HIV tests and locations where the tests are performed.

Fact Sheets on AIDS and HIV - These fact sheets are provided by the staff at AIDS.org.

The Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource. Treatment and Drug Glossaries and Databases - Information pertaining to HIV/AIDS terms, drug profiles, and multiple databases can be accessed from this site.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Brochures - Brochures on risk factors, prevention, and opportunistic infections are available at this web site. Many have Spanish language versions.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Fact Sheets - Fact sheets available at the site include topics such as prevention, transmission, and research.

Drugs, Alcohol and HIV/AIDS - Read this pamphlet to see how these three problems are often intertwined.

Healthy Minds - The American Psychiatric Association explores this topic in depth.

HIV:Coping With the Diagnosis - The physicians at the American Academy of Family Physicians have created this fact sheet.

MEDLINEPlus Encyclopedia - The Health Illustrated Encyclopedia from MedlinePlus includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Please check the alphabetic listing for the topic you want.

Nutrition and Exercise When You Have HIV - The physicians at the American Academy of Family Physicians have created this fact sheet.