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Thursday, February 7, 2008

'AIDS InfoNet' consortium of HIV and AIDS related e-books

`AIDS InfoNet' is a consortium of HIV and AIDS related e-books (please see list at the end) offering free and perpetual access for National AIDS Control Organization, all state AIDS Control
Societies and 281 MCI approved medical colleges in India. UNAIDS has pioneered this initiative in tandem with its commitment to provide reliable technical information to decision makers and thus help in the delivery of an effective response.

AIDS InfoNet consists of e-books from reputed publishers, covering a range of important issues relating to HIV and AIDS. Advantages of the consortium are multifold, e.g., it is possible to share the licenses for subscribed books across several institutions where users can access them from the place of their convenience. The facility also allows information search across the book collection, bypassing individual book indexes/contents page as in the case of paper books.

It even allows one to track the usage, thereby allowing efficient decisions on further purchases etc.

The consortium was released by Mr. Naresh Dayal, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on 20 December 2007 at New Delhi. The information on accessing the consortium has been dispatched to all the institutions more than a month ago. Information dissemination within the institution often takes time (as also there is a possibility of the letter getting mis-delivered).

*Subscribed titles
1. A generation at risk: The global impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children; Foster, Geoff.; Levine, Carol.; Williamson, John; Cambridge University Press

2. Addressing HIV/AIDS in East Asia and the Pacific {Health, nutrition, and population series}; World Bank

3. AIDS epidemiology: A quantitative approach {Monographs in epidemiology and biostatistics; v. 22}; Brookmeyer, Ron; Gail, Mitchell H.;Oxford University Press (US)

4. Beyond condoms: Alternative approaches to HIV prevention;O'Leary, Ann.;Springer Science & Business Media

5. Cardiovascular disease in AIDS; Barbaro, Giuseppe.; Boccara, Franck.; Springer Science & Business Media

6. Community interventions and AIDS; Trickett, Edison J.; Pequegnat, Willo.; Oxford University Press (US)

7. Courting rights: Case studies in litigating the human rights of people living with HIV {UNAIDS best practice collection}; Elliott, Richard; WHO

8. Deterministic and stochastic models of AIDS epidemics and HIV infections with intervention; Tan, W. Y. ;Wu, Hulin.; World Scientific Publishing Co.

9. Handbook of pediatric HIV care {2nd ed.}; Zeichner, Steven L.; Read, Jennifer S.; Cambridge University Press

10. HIV prevention among young injecting drug users;United Nations Publications

11. HIV/AIDS and information; Stanton, Theresa.; Arski, Yuri.; Taylor & Francis Routledge

12. HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in India: Modeling the costs and consequences {Health, nutrition, and population series}; Over, A. Mead.; World Bank

13. Human immunodeficiency virus: A medical dictionary, bibliography, and annotated research guide to internet references; Parker, James N.; Parker, Philip M.; Icon Group International, Inc

14. Human retrovirus protocols: Virology and molecular biology {Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.); v. 304}; Zhu, Tuofu.; Humana Press

15. Learning from HIV/AIDS {Biosocial Society symposium series}; Ellison, George; Parker, Melissa; Campbell, Catherine; Cambridge
University Press

16. Legal and ethical aspects of HIV-related research {Language of science}; Loue, Sana; Plenum Press

17. Micronutrients & HIV infection {Modern nutrition (Boca Raton, Fla.)}; Friis, Henrik; CRC Press

18. Population, reproductive rights and reproductive health with special reference to HIV/AIDS: A concise report; United Nations Publications

19. Positive prevention: Reducing HIV transmission among people living with HIV/AIDS; Kalichman, Seth C.; Springer Science & Business Media

20. Preventing HIV/AIDS in young people: A systematic review of the evidence from developing countries {Technical report series (World Health Organization) ; 938};Ross, David A.; Dick, Bruce.; Ferguson, Jane.; WHO

21. Privacy and disclosure of HIV in interpersonal relationships: A sourcebook for researchers and practitioners {LEA's communication series}; Greene, Kathryn.; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

22. Psychosocial and public health impacts of new HIV therapies {AIDS prevention and mental health}; Ostrow, David G.; Kalichman, Seth C.; Springer Science & Business Media

23. Rethinking AIDS prevention: Learning from successes in developing countries;Green, Edward C; Greenwood Publishing Group

24. Safer sex in personal relationships: The role of sexual scripts in HIV infection and prevention {LEA's series on personal relationships} ; Emmers-Sommer, Tara M.; Allen, Mike; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

25. Social networks, drug injectors' lives, and HIV/AIDS {AIDS prevention and mental health}; Friedman, Samuel R.;Springer Science & Business Media

26. Textbook of pediatric HIV care; Zeichner, Steven L.; Read, Jennifer S.; Cambridge University Press

27. The AIDS pandemic: Complacency, injustice, and unfulfilled expectations {Studies in social medicine}; Gostin, Larry O.; University of North Carolina Press

28. The encyclopedia of HIV and AIDS {Facts on File library of health and living; 2nd ed.};Watstein, Sarah; Stratton, Stephen E.;Facts on File, Inc.

29. War on drugs, HIV/AIDS, and human rights {Sourcebook on contemporary controversies} ; Malinowska-Sempruch , Kasia.; Gallagher, Sarah.; International Debate Education Association

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