Press room ... 1996 archive

Late Breaking HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Available
by Accessing Project Inform’s Enhanced Website

April 22, 1996

San Francisco, CA—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 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 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.