Question:
I need information on drugs used in the care and treatment
of individuals with HIV/AIDS, where can I start?
If you are interested in finding
out what and how drugs are used in the treatment of HIV/AIDS, a good place to
begin is the Johns Hopkins Medical Management of HIV Infection.
- From the
CHAIN Home Page, select Library.
- Scroll down the page and under the Book
section, select Medical Management of HIV Infection.
- Chapter III, "Disease Prevention:
Prophylactic Antimicrobial Agents and Vaccines", provides guidelines for
the use of drugs in the prevention of opportunistic infections.
- Chapter IV, "Antiretroviral Therapy",
covers the antiretroviral agents and recommendations for their use.
- Chapter VI, "Drugs: Guide to
Information",offers information about specific drugs including dosage forms & price,
relevant clinical trials data, side effects, drug interactions, cautions, and
contact info for patient assistance programs.
Next you can return to the
CHAIN Home Page and click on the Links option.
- Scroll down the page and under MEDLINEplus,
click on "AIDS".
- From the menu on the left side of the page, click
on "Treatment".
- Select "AIDS Treatment
Information Service (Dept. of Health and Human Services".
- Click on the "Drug Treatment" option
to find out about FDA approved drugs and counterfeit drug alerts. Click on
"Treatment Guidelines" to access recommendations for adult,
adolescent, pediatric, and perinatal drug therapies.
- Return to the
MEDLINEplus: AIDS--Treatment section for access to additional
information on drug therapies, including news releases regarding new
drugs.
Additionally, you can return
to the CHAIN Links page and select AIDS Education
Training Centers (AETC) National Resource Center--Links option.
- At AETC scroll down
and click on "AIDS/HIV Treatment".
- Links are provided to Guidelines via the
AIDS Treatment Information Service site (mentioned earlier) and the Medscape
site.
- A link to the online periodical "AIDS Treatment News" is also present,
and this resource offers information on new drugs and relevant updates
on currently used drugs.
For information on specific drugs, from the
the CHAIN Library page, go to the
Databases
section.
- Click on the "AIDSDRUG" link.
- Enter the specific drug name into the "Search Term" or
"Drug Name" search box.
- The information returned can include AIDS-related use of
the drug, drug interactions, adverse effects, contraindications,
a bibliography of further reading, and recruiting, current, and completed
clinical trials involving the drug.
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This page last updated 12/17/01
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