About This Site
I started AIDS Treatment News in 1986 and published it for over 20 years -- and want to share the resulting perspectives online. The new online services are:
- AIDS Treatment News Search Engine (above) and
- AIDS Treatment News Daily Alerts at www.aidsnews.org/now.
In the future we plan to add a group blog with several writers specializing in different aspects of AIDS. And we hope to revive the printed edition of AIDS Treatment News, and give that edition to a nonprofit that can maintain it.
AIDS Treatment News Search Engine
Search more than 150
major sites selected by AIDS Treatment News with a
standard Google search in the box above. Find almost anything as it
relates to HIV/AIDS, for example: Obama; "World AIDS Day"; testing; Trizivir;
integrase; "hepatitis C"; "monoclonal antibodies"; global; HIV
2009; prison; ADAP; PREP. [For mobile phone search, best use
www.aidsnews.org/m]
Why use this AIDS-specific search engine instead of an ordinary Google or other search?
- FOCUSED: You can search for Obama, for example, and get about 100 results, all AIDS-related and credible. An ordinary Google search finds about three hundred million (300,000,000) results for Obama. Enough said.
- EASY: It's exactly the same as an ordinary Google search, except that it's done in our search box above. So anyone who knows how to do a Google search will have no learning curve.
- CURRENT: We deliberately created our search engine to favor more recent information, especially 2008 and 2009. This is not perfect, and you will still see pages dated 2003 or 1995 for example, but there are far fewer of them to skip over.
- CREDIBLE: Our search avoids misleading agendas that may be dressed up to look credible -- including HIV denialism, and promotional sites with articles written mainly to sell particular drugs. Persons who are newly involved or otherwise non-expert can benefit most from a search engine that avoids most of the garbage that coexists with solid information on the Web.
- FREE: All of the results returned by our search engine are free (although a few have only an abstract that is free, and require a journal subscription for the full text). Almost all of our results are registration-free as well, so you can avoid that hassle.
- MOBILE: Our searches work well on a mobile phone or other device, even with a slow data connection, since most of the garbage returned by standard searches never appears. Perhaps more importantly, standard searches may require additional browsing to check the credibility of the pages returned; this is awkward with a slow connection. So you can get a quick background on a particular treatment, medical condition, issue, expert, organization, etc. -- even in a doctor's waiting room, on a bus, or almost anywhere. And you can usually read the text a PDF or other file that your phone will not handle, by clicking the link that Google provides for this purpose.
- ONE-STOP: Some large, important Web sites are too big and confusing to browse easily. And it can be hard to find the right sites to look through for your information. Our search engine does all this for you in about 2 seconds, for the 150+ sites we selected.
- ACTIVISM: This search engine lets anyone, even beginners, get a quick, reliable overview on just about anything AIDS-related that has been in the community or mainstream news -- with links to in-depth information if desired. We believe that this easy entry will help people take the first steps into activism, when they are moved to do so.
For all these reasons we think that a good AIDS-specific search engine is an excellent place to start, for a large number of questions about AIDS.
Daily Alerts, Selected by AIDS Treatment News
For daily alerts to news that we think is especially important, see www.aidsnews.org/now
This page updated on 2009-12-01