When I was diagnosed with HIV in August, 1992, I went on a — well I guess you wouldn't call it a man-hunt exactly — but a search anyway to find information about the disease. At that time people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS had about a 4-year window of survival, which must have been somewhere in the back of my mind when, around 1996 I went into a pretty severe depression. I dropped out of the musicians' union, quit the orchestra I was playing in and more or less withdrew from playing, though I continued to teach. I imagine I wasn't very pleasant to live with (you can ask Andy about that).
After a couple years I realized that I missed playing the flute, that there must have been some reason I'd gotten my doctorate in the damned thing, and I'd sort of lost track of that in all the years of flute study. In an odd way, receiving the diagnosis of this life-threatening disease eventually brought me to a place where I realized how important the flute specifically, and music in general are to me. So I rejoined the union, began to pick up the pieces of my freelance career and to give recitals again. If you're interested in what I'm doing these days, please visit my "about me" page.
I wouldn't wish such a diagnosis on anyone, but in a way it was a blessing in that it helped me realize what was really important to me. I am glad to say that I am now (generally) fairly happy, relatively healthy, and able to share the fruits of my AIDS info search with you.
French-language AIDS info
Spanish-language AIDS info
- Abbott Pharmaceuticals Product Division
- About HIV/AIDS
- AIDSmeds.com/
- Great site for drug info, medicine interactions and much more.
- Comprehensive listing of daily HIV/AIDS news items
- A good collection of resources in English with one Spanish language page listed.
- Comprehensive listing of daily HIV/AIDS news items
- AIDS and HIV
Resources from Boston University
- AIDS Action Committee - MA
- AIDS.org
- Aids resources
- AIDS Action Committee - MA
- from, oddly enough, warts.org
- AmFAR
- ANTIBODY RESOURCE© Page: The source for antibody information.
- Biotechnology Information Institute
- ANTIBODY RESOURCE© Page: The source for antibody information.
- Publisher of the Antiviral Agents Bulletin
- AIDS
Project Los Angeles
- ARIS of Santa Clara County
- http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/Default.aspx
- CDC - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) Home Page
- ARIS of Santa Clara County
- Prevention URL
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
- CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service
- Clinical trials info
- Clinical Trial Info
- International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations
- CME Gateway
- the premier resource for online continuing medical education. CME GATEWAY features a CME Directory, online CME courses, online CME publications, access to free MEDLINE search, disease - specific resource centers and links to other important medical and government sites, associations, pharmaceutical companies, travel information and search engines.
- Critical Path Project
- Latebreaking news, clinical trials, treatments alternative and otherwise
- Cryptosporidiosis:
A Guide for Persons with HIV/AIDS
- International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
- DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists)
- Edward King's AIDS Pages
- Fenway Community Health Center
- International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
- Boston-based treatment center
- Gay Men's Health
- GMHC: Treatment Issues Index
- Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection
- Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative
- HIV | InSite
- HIV ReSources-Homepage - Nutrition Resources
- HIV Sequence Database WWW Home Page
- HIVnALIVE WebSite by Positively HIV
- HIVNET Information on HIV and/or AIDS Server
- Immunet AIDS Bookstore
- Institute for Traditional Medicine/WELCOME
- GMHC: Treatment Issues Index
- provides education, conducts research, and offers therapeutic programs with a focus on natural healing techniques
- International
AIDS Society - USA
- JRI Health InfoWeb
- Good source for info and links
- Marty Howard's HIV/AIDS HomePage
- Medical Foundation for AIDS & Sexual Health
- MedWeb: Alternative medicine
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report --- Recommendations & Reports
- NAMES Project
- National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project
- Natiional Institutes of Health Webpages
- Info on basic science, prevention, vaccines, clinical trials and more
- New
England Journal of Medicine On-line - Home Page
- NIAID Home Page
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- www.aidsinfonyc.org
- LSU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit Homepage
- patientslikeme.com
- LSU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit Homepage
- A social networking site - also has info re MS, ALS, Parkinsons, etc.,
- poz.com
- POZ Magazine
- Pozlink - the Protease Inhibitor Treatment List (PI-TREAT).
- Project Inform
- SOUNDPRINT New Front Page
- Pozlink - the Protease Inhibitor Treatment List (PI-TREAT).
- This site has great, concise renderings of page information to be used in Comments field of HIVINFO
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Spanish Language Aids Information
- Prevención
- Spanish-language prevention information
- Project Inform Información en español
- SPECIALTY
LABORATORIES
- Stadtlander Homepage
- Steve Schalchlin's Survival Site
- Stopaids
- The Body: A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Information Resource
- The HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Network
- The Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
- The Terrence Higgins Trust
- The Women's Place - Information On HIV And AIDS For Women (Way back page)
- THECURE.ORG - INFORMATION
- UK National AIDS Manual
- UNAIDS
- Welcome to Gangbang's HomePage (Way back page)
- Welcome to SHANTI
- Welcome to the Harvard AIDS Initiative
- www.aidsnyc.org
- www.broadcast.com/radio/Talk/WOR/
- Stadtlander Homepage
- Living Well With HIV & Hepatitis radio show archive
- Yoga
for HIV/AIDS
French language information
- AIDES ILE-DE-FRANCE, 247, rue de Belleville, 75019 Paris
- French language AIDS information
- Accueil
- French language information
