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Women, Children, and HIV CD-ROM targets developing countries
02 July 2004. A posting from gender-AIDS ([email protected]).
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With the aim of reaching the thousands of health care workers in developing countries who do not have ready access to the Internet, a CD-ROM containing the latest information on HIV/AIDS will be disseminated to the 19,000 delegates attending the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok in July.
The CD-ROM, prepared by the University of California - San Francisco (UCSF) Center for HIV Information, is the third and latest edition of "Women, Children, and HIV: Resources for Prevention and Treatment," a leading information resource for international care providers, researchers, and policy makers focusing on mother-to-child transmission of HIV. It includes most of the information that is already available on the Web site http://WomenChildrenHIV.org
"We developed the CD-ROM out of need," said Arthur Ammann, MD, UCSF adjunct professor of paediatrics and a medical editor on the project. "Researchers in the developing world realized that Internet access was not available in rural areas. It was too expensive, and where it was available, time access was very limited." The need for such information is great, Ammann said. In 2003, almost 62 percent of AIDS patients were women, most of them in developing countries.
The CD-ROM, a compilation of the latest information on HIV/AIDS, including treatments, drugs and standards of care, provides data from a variety of countries, allowing healthcare workers to learn from best practices in other regions. There are training modules for medical practitioners, a library of treatment guidelines and research articles, and templates of educational brochures and posters designed for patients and communities. The CD-ROM contains approximately 5,000 pages of text, selected from a variety of sources.
Excerpted from: http://www.eurekalert.org |
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