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SEA-AIDSFLASH
Number Five - 2 April 1996
The bi-weekly electronic news digest on HIV and AIDS
for the South East Asia Region
(Subscriber total today: 305)
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CONTENTS
- Key information sources now included in AIDSFiles
- Media coverage and press releases from the region
- New information and resources available in SEA-AIDSFiles
- New HIV/AIDS electronic mail resources and Internet services
- Forthcoming events, meetings and training
- How to retrieve materials from SEA-AIDSFiles
KEY INFORMATION SOURCES NOW INCLUDED IN AIDSFILES
Several review documents covering the general topic of HIV/AIDS have been
added to the SEA-AIDSFiles archives recently. For example, the
comprehensive review and bibliography "The Relationship between the Human
Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome" that is
listed below in the new information section. During the next few weeks
further titles will be added so that a collection of 'reference' information
will be available by e-mail to all sea-aids members. If you have
suggestions for information or materials that you think should be included
in this (or any other) section of the archives, please let us know. If you
are retrieving these materials by e-mail, it may take some time - some of
them are large files.
MEDIA COVERAGE AND PRESS RELEASES
Regionally-relevant clippings from: March 15 to April 2 1996 (31Kb;
news10.txt) including:
HIV Subtypes Raise Vaccine Anxieties (03/02/96)
Leading AIDS Researcher Warns of Second Epidemic (03/22/96)
On Every Argentine Cellblock, Specter of AIDS (03/22/96)
HIV Subtypes And Disease Transmission: Scientists Taking A Hard Look At The
Data (03/28/96)
Clinical Trials Begin In Thailand Of HIV Treatment Proposed By Dr. Jonas
Salk (03/28/96)
Tuberculosis Rise Adds to Vietnam's AIDS Problem (03/20/96)
Tuberculosis, Uncontrolled (03/19/96)
China arrests four for heroin trafficking (03/19/96)
Theme For World AIDS Day Announced By UNAIDS (03/18/96)
Virus Research Drawing International Attention (03/29/96)
Case for Behavioral Studies for AIDS Prevention (03/16/96)
U.S. to give final refuge chance to Lao refugees (04/01/96)
Mekong development area (03/30/96)
Implications Of HIV Variability Still Uncertain (04/01/96)
New Technology Saves Millions, Extends Vaccine Outreach Programs Announces
PATH (04/01/96)
The Tuberculosis Emergency (04/01/96)
Why Heterosexual Sex May Spread Some HIV More Easily (04/01/96)
Cambodia to make formal request for ASEAN membership (04/02/96)
To obtain a copy of these clippings send an e-mail to:
ftpmail@inet.co.th with the following in the text of the message:
open
get /pub/sea-aids/news/news10.txt
close
NEW INFORMATION AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN SEA-AIDSFILES
The following information/materials have recently been added to the
SEA-AIDSFiles archives (see
below for retrieval instructions):
AIDS Next Catastrophe for Cambodia
Article published in the Jakarta Post on 1 December 1995 (World AIDS Day) by
Tony Kahane
(esgen1.txt; 8.6Kb)
The Relationship between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome (a *big file* of 94Kb; revw2.txt)
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National
Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland (September 1995). This
comprehensive review covers the natural history of HIV infection and related
conditions, epidemiological issues, current scientific disputes and much
more. It is accompanied by an extensive bibliography that is a useful
resource in itself.
(Accompanying bibliography: 78Kb; revw3.txt)
Two further general reviews have also been added to the archive, they are:
HIV and its Transmission
Source: CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse and HIV/AIDS Media Handbook.
ANCA/AFAO, 1994.
(11.5Kb; revw4.txt)
AIDS and Opportunistic Infections.
Source: sci.med.aids FAQ and HIV/AIDS Media Handbook.
ANCA/AFAO, 1994.
(11.8Kb; revw5.txt)
HIV Prevention and Care: Teaching Modules for Nurses and Midwives. These
teaching modules were first produced by the WHO Global Programme on AIDS in
1993. The various sections are archived as separate files, as indicated below:
Introduction, teaching guide and foreword (20.2Kb;care.txt)
MODULE 1 Epidemiology and Transmission of (18.2Kb; care1.txt)
MODULE 2 HIV Infection and HIV-related Illness (23.4Kb; care2.txt)
MODULE 3 Prevention of HIV Transmission in Health Care Settings (28.6Kb;
care3.txt)
MODULE 4 The Psychosocial Impact of HIV Infection
on the Individual and the Community (16.9Kb; care4.txt)
MODULE 5 Developing Counselling Skills (15.7Kb; care5.txt)
MODULE 6 Patient Education (23.5Kb; care6.txt)
MODULE 7 Nursing Care of the Adult with HIV-related Illness (18.7Kb;
care7.txt)
MODULE 8 The Impact of HIV Infection and
HIV-related Illness on Women (19.8Kb; care8.txt)
MODULE 9 Nursing Care of the Infant or Child with
HIV-related Illness (19.8Kb; care9.txt)
MODULE 10 Terminal Care in HIV-related Illness (13.2Kb; care10.txt)
MODULE 11 Education of Traditional Practitioners to Prevent
HIV Transmission through Skin-Piercing Practices (6.4Kb; care11.txt)
APPENDIX 1 WHO Counselling Guidelines for HIV Testing (25.0Kb; care12.txt)
Protective immunity against HIV infection: has nature done the experiment
for us?
Shearer GM, Clerici M (17.8Kb; pvres3.txt)
Following today's announcement that Cambodia is to formally request
membership of ASEAN, a recent editorial article from the Cambodia Times
(February 18 - March 2 1996) titled: ASEAN: Is Cambodia fully prepared? has
been made available (9.1Kb; govlg2.txt)
NEW HIV/AIDS ELECTRONIC MAIL RESOURCES AND INTERNET SERVICES
PROMED: A listserver on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The
listserver has currently more than 4,000 subscribers
in 80 countries. To subscribe to promed or promed-digest (all daily
postings as a single message) send a message to majordomo@usa.healthnet.org
with the following text:
'subscribe promed' or 'subscribe promed-digest'.
HEALTH-GIS is a new electronic discussion forum on Geographic Information
Systems a section of the Division of Control of Tropical Diseases, World
Health Organization, Geneva. Discussion is bilingual in French and English.
HEALTH-GIS is for anyone interested in the application of GIS for health.
The objective is to promote exchange of information regarding projects,
methodologies, partners in countries, availability of databases, maps,
software, sources of finances, etc. You can SUBSCRIBE by sending the
following message to: majordomo@who.ch
subscribe health-gis your-first-name your-last-name
PROCAARE (Program for Collaboration Against AIDS and Related Epidemics): The
goal of this electronic conference is to provide a forum for discussion
among researchers and clinicians both in the industrialized and the
developing world. This moderated conference will ensure that the researcher
and physician in the developing world will have rapid access to current
information and to a body of experts from around the world.
To subscribe to the ProCAARE conference, send E-mail to:
majordomo@usa.healthnet.org
and include the following in the text of your message:
subscribe procaare
end
The sea-aids services are aimed specifically at those who have only e-mail
access. However, if you also use the netscape internet browser and would
like a set of AIDS-specific bookmarks, send an e-mail to:
france.unescap@udn.org
and include the word 'bookmark' in the message text.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS, MEETINGS AND TRAINING
A Summer Institute in Tropical Medicine and Public Health is being organized
by the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and School of
Medicine from July 8-August 30, 1996. For further information send an
e-mail to: hroth@phnet.sph.jhu.edu
DON'T FORGET to send sea-aids details of forthcoming events and activities
in the region. This might include meetings, seminars, forthcoming study
tours, training opportunities or electronic events. Details should be sent
to: tfran@mozart.inet.co.th
INSTRUCTIONS FOR RETRIEVING FILES
[YOU COULD PRINT THIS SECTION FOR FUTURE REFERENCE]
The materials mentioned above are stored in a computer. The computer is
like an electronic filing cabinet - it has drawers and files. You have to
tell it which drawer to open and which file to select. Following each of
the document descriptions above there is a number and a file name given in
brackets e.g., (8.8Kb; news4.txt). The number shows the size of the file
(8.8 kilobytes in this case), and the filename first shows the name of the
drawer (in this instance 'news') and then gives the file number (for this
file it is 4). To obtain a copy of this document you send an e-mail to:
ftpmail@inet.co.th with the following in the text of the message:
open
get /pub/sea-aids/news/news4.txt
close
Other files can be retrieved using the same general format for your message.
For example:
open
get /pub/sea-aids/drawername/filename
close
Because these requests are answered automatically by computer, you must be
very careful to copy the
format of the message carefully (including spaces and slashes).
If you would like further instructions for retrieving files in this way,
send an e-mail to:
majordomo@lists.inet.co.th
with the following in the text of the message:
get sea-aids retrev.idx
For a list of all the materials available in the archives send an e-mail to
the same address with the following in the text of your message:
get sea-aids listing.idx
If you would like a list of the subject areas used for classification of
materials send the following message:
get sea-aids categ.idx
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if you need any help using
these services.
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