NAM is an HIV treatments information provider. We specialise in providing information on HIV treatment and healthy living to people with HIV and those who care for and support them. If you want information on another aspect of HIV and you can't find it on aidsmap.com, one of the organisations listed below may be able to help further. Alternatively, you can contact us and we will do our best to signpost you to the information you require.

Unfortunately NAM cannot offer personalised advice or counselling. However, there are many other organisations that will be able to help you if contacted directly.

Helplines in the UK

THT Direct
THT Direct can provide support, advice and information on a wide range of topics for people living with or affected by HIV in the UK. They cannot give medical advice, but can talk to you about starting and sticking to treatment, as well as sending out publications.

You can call THT Direct on 0845 1221 200 between 10am and 10pm on Monday to Friday, and from 12 noon to 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. You can also contact them by email at info@tht.org.uk or make an appointment to see someone face to face.


i-Base
i-Base have a specialist HIV treatment phone line that is open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 12 noon to 4pm. It can be contacted on 0808 800 6013. Staff at i-Base can also answer questions posted online or emailed to questions@i-base.org.uk 

Internet 
The internet provides access to an enormous amount of treatments information from online medical journals to mailing lists which act as global electronic discussion groups, for example on haemophilia, treatment activism or treatment side-effects.

www.aegis.com
The most extensive collection of links on AIDS, with searchable electronic versions of many newsletters and a vast catalogue of news stories, plus discussion forums. www.aidsonline.com

An influential medical journal sponsored by the International AIDS Society, with free access to abstracts, which provide a summary of the key findings of research. Full text access only available to subscribers.

www.avert.org
AVERT is an international HIV and AIDS charity based in the UK, with the aim of AVERTing HIV and AIDS worldwide.

www.clinicaloptions.com/hiv
A site targeted at HIV medical professionals.

www.hivandhepatitis.com
This site concentrates on news and conference reports, largely targeted at medical professionals.

hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite  
The electronic version of the AIDS Knowledge Base, a textbook developed by physicians at San Francisco General Hospital. The site also contains databases on trials, drug interactions and side effects, as well as news stories and a library of reports on prevention issues.

www.iasociety.org
Website of the International AIDS Society which includes daily news. The site also makes available abstracts of conferences organised by the International AIDS Society including the International AIDS Conference.

www.medscape.com/hiv
Another site designed to provide doctors with continuing medical education on HIV.The site also provides daily news and conference coverage.

www.thebody.com
An extensive collection of articles from HIV newsletters and other publications around the world, and an exclusive ‘Ask the Experts’ forum for you to put questions to the leading doctors.

www.unaids.com
United Nations AIDS Programme − information about the activities of the programme, access to policy documents and records of UNAIDS-sponsored interventions; statistics on the global epidemic.

www.dipex.org/hiv
The DIPEx HIV module is a unique public-access website containing video clips of interviews in which 50 people describe their experience of HIV.

For more information about other HIV organisations around the world, please use our online searchable database of HIV & AIDS Services Worldwide