This section includes existing knowledge initiatives and possible knowledge transfer vehicles related to health and learning and HIV/AIDS.

AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGIS) is a web site that brings together news and information on all aspects of HIV/AIDS from around the world. This includes basic information, prevention, exposure issues, treatment, drug resistance, and living with HIV/AIDS. There is also an “Ask the Doc” electronic forum and electronic community bulletin boards.
See http://www.aegis.com/ (International)

AIDS/HIV Information is a web site that provides links to other web sites that are online resources of information about AIDS and HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment, education and outreach. Many are updated daily with the latest news on drugs and research.
See http://kerlins.net/scott/AIDS.html (Canada)

AIDSLINE “is a database of information about the medical/scientific literature similar to MEDLINE. It contains over 140,000 entries which describe journal articles, conference abstracts and since 1995 the newsletters of organizations which deal with HIV/AIDS treatments. Each AIDSLINE entry contains the article's author, title, information about the journal it was published in and in many cases an abstract summarizing the article.
AIDSLINE is maintained by the National Library of Medicine in the United States.”
See http://www.aegis.com/search (United States)

Canadian HIV/AIDS Information Centre is an information centre, a program of the Canadian Public Health Association. It has a mandate to “provide information on HIV prevention, care, and treatment to community-based organizations, health and education professionals, resource centres and others with HIV and AIDS information needs in Canada.” The Centre works to strengthen program and service delivery. The web site
includes a wide range of downloadable documents on all aspects of HIV/AIDS. It also has a library database that one can borrow from http://www.aidssida.cpha.ca/ (Canada)

Federal Initiative to Address AIDS in Canada “is an evolution from the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS and builds on the recommendations from the Standing Committee on Health; lessons learned from past federal HIV/AIDS strategies; and consultations with stakeholders, provinces and territories.” This web site is sponsored by the Public Health Agency of Canada. It includes information on funding, care and treatment, human rights, specific groups and research, etc.
See http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/aids-sida/hiv_aids/federal_initiative/initiative/index.html (Canada)

Health Care Information Services provides hundreds of AIDS links.
See http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/aids.html (Canada)

HIV and Poverty in Canada is a web site hosted by the Canadian AIDS Society (CAS). It contains tools, resources and information about HIV and Income in Canada.
See http://www.hivandpoverty.ca (Canada)

HIV Community-based Research Network is a site operated by the Community-Based Research Centre (CBRC) in Vancouver, Canada. It supports a global network of people using research to guide community action on HIV prevention, treatment and care. It is a virtual centre to share experience and build capacity. It contains a large collection of reports and articles on general HIV/AIDS as well as specific topics and groups, and
research and articles on capacity building.
See http://cbr.cbrc.net (Canada)