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Title: "New Treatments for HIV: A guide for people with HIV"

Author(s) and Affiliations: New York State Department of Health, AIDS Institute

Target Audience: Adults living with HIV/AIDS

Topic: Anti-Retroviral Therapy

Reading Level (SMOG Test): 10th Grade

Language: English and Spanish

Brief Synopsis/Description: This booklet informs people living with HIV/AIDS about combination anti-retroviral therapy. The booklet defines combination therapies, viral load testing, CD4 testing and types of protease inhibitors. It provides suggestions for people to consider when initiating therapy to assist them in making informed choices about treatments for HIV.

Brief Synopsis of NRC Consumer Reviews: The reviewers agreed that this resource might be most helpful to people newly diagnosed with HIV or for those initiating antiretroviral therapy. Reviewers commented that the text and reading level is "very simple, concisely presented and provides basic information." One reviewer found that this is not necessarily "new" information for all consumers, but it is very "readable and easy to understand." According to another reviewer this resource provides the reader with a "sense that these things (medications) can help" and that there "are choices available." The reviewers suggested that case managers, HIV peer educators, outreach workers and physicians, distribute this piece to patients.

Date of Most Recent Revision/ Update: April 1999

Next Planned Update: 2001

Publisher: New York State Department of Health, AIDS Institute

Copyright Information: Not Copyrighted

Permission to Reproduce? Yes Permission to Distribute? Yes

Type of Material: Booklet

Style and Format
Text
 5 pages
Tables
 3
Figures 0
Color Yes
Other Graphics None

Cost per copy: One free sample copy free of charge to any requestor

Multiple copies: Free of charge to New York State residents and organizations. Out of state organizations are charged fees to cover production, shipping and handling costs.

Shipping Cost: Based on order

Ordering Contact:

To request a single, sample copy of this booklet or to request a New York State Department of Health HIV/AIDS Consumer Materials Catalog and Order Form send a fax to: (518) 473-8814 or an e-mail to: hivpubs@health.state.ny.us Please be sure to include the publication title and number you are requesting. The publication number for this booklet is: 9287/English; 9286/Spanish.

To view the booklet in pdf (acrobat) format:
English, click here.
Spanish, click here.

To download the free Acrobat Reader, click here.




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