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November 26, 2008
HIV/AIDS Annual Evidence Update - November 2008
HIV/AIDs (Infections Specialist Library)
http://www.library.nhs.uk/infections
The Infections Specialist Library launched its first Annual Evidence Update on 24 November. This has been timed to coincide with World HIV/AIDS Day on 1 December. The National Library for Public Health (http://www.library.nhs.uk/publichealth) will be presenting a complementary evidence update on Behaviour change in high-risk populations.
There is a vast amount of literature on HIV/AIDS, so this Annual Evidence Update is using the UK National Guidelines for HIV testing 2008 published by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, the British HIV Association and the British Infection Society as the starting document. Experts in the field have provided summaries on some of these subtopics, and links to other useful websites arel also provided. We welcome feedback about the resources included in this update - please contact us if you would like to comment.
The National Library for Health (NLH) Specialist Libraries have been developed to identify and meet the information needs of particular communities of practice. They are web-based collections containing clinical and non-clinical information on the major health priority areas. Each NLH Specialist Library identifies and provides access to quality assessed information of relevance to the community that it serves. An aspect of this involves the production of Annual Evidence Updates, which aim to highlight the best current evidence for selected healthcare topics. Annual Evidence Updates consist of the good quality evidence from a search of research evidence on a particular topic over a 12 month period, plus user-friendly summaries written by relevant experts, and links to guidelines, secondary research and primary research, if applicable. All information included in Annual Evidence Updates has been subject to rigorous selection criteria
Posted by S.Austin at November 26, 2008 1:27 PM
Comments
I'm pleased you sent through this link as we don't always have time to go back to websites like the HPA or NLH. At first glance this look like a good overview of the current evidence around HIV.
Posted by: Angela Star at November 26, 2008 3:59 PM