PI Action alerts & updates ... 1996
Late Breaking HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Available
by Accessing Project Inform’s Enhanced Website
Web Site Made Possible By Committed Group of Volunteers &
Staff & Generous Funding From The Telesis Foundation
www.projectinform.org
Project Inform, one of the United States’ leading HIV/AIDS
treatment information and advocacy organizations, announced today
that its extensive educational and public policy information is
now available on the World Wide Web at http://www.projectinform.org.
Chosen by Internet World as one of the “Best of 1995”
(Internet World, January, 1996), this site offers a wide range of
treatment information for HIV/AIDS and related opportunistic infections
including:
- the Project Inform “Introductory Packet for HIV/AIDS Treatments”;
- Fact Sheets summarizing specific HIV disease and treatment topics;
- the PI Perspective, Project Inform’s periodic treatment
and policy journal; and
- Spanish translations of Project Inform publications.
In addition, the web site is frequently updated with:
- late breaking treatment information
- educational meeting announcements; and
- policy alerts from Project Inform’s Treatment Action Network
(TAN), the largest national grassroots network of individuals
lobbying on HIV/AIDS research and treatment issues.
Creating the Project Inform web site has been a year-long effort
by a committed group of volunteers and staff. The project was given
an enormous boost by a $25,000 grant from the Telesis Foundation
in 1995. That grant, which was sponsored by Steve Coulter, Area
Vice President—Bay Area, of Pacific Telesis, enabled Project
Inform to secure the professional skills and equipment necessary
to bring the web site to a functioning reality. Also crucial to
the success of this project was Anne Clarke Ronce of Clarke Ronce
Associates, who helped secure additional funding and in-kind support.
Key volunteers involved in the project include Paul Buckley, Grahame
Perry and Dave Thomson.
Two Ways To Access Project Inform ONLINE
World Wide Web
- The Internet address on the World Wide Web is http://www.projectinform.org
and can be reached using browser software on one’s computer.
This server is located in San Francisco, CA.
- HIVNET is the European arm of GENA, the Global Electronic Network
for AIDS. A text-only version of Project Inform materials is available
on this service located in Amsterdam, Holland. HIVNET can be reached
using the Gopher software on one’s computer by specifying
gopher.hivnet.org as the server. Connections to HIVNET can be
made using Web browser software with the addresses: gopher://gopher.hivnet.org/
and http://www.hivnet.org.
Project Inform, founded in 1985, is a national, non-profit community
based organization working to alter the course of the AIDS epidemic.
Its mission is:
- to provide vital information on the diagnosis and treatment
of HIV disease to HIV-infected individuals, their caretakers and
their health care providers;
- to advocate for enlightened regulatory, research and funding
policies to speed the development of promising treatments and
to make those treatments available to all HIV-infected individuals;
to inspire people to make informed choices amid uncertainty and
to choose hope over despair.
Through its toll-free treatment information hotline, information
publications, nationwide educational town meetings and research
and treatment advocacy programs, Project Inform serves over 70,000
constituents annually.
For access questions, Project Inform can be reached via email at
web@projectinform.org or call the Project Inform HIV/AIDS Treatment
Information Hotline at 800-822-7422 (in the San Francisco Bay Area
or internationally, 415-558-9051). For questions about treatment
for HIV disease or related opportunistic infections, call the Hotline.
