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December 2, 2009
Annual Evidence Update on HIV/AIDs - 30 November 2009
Annual Evidence Update on HIV/AIDs (NHS Evidence - infections)
www.library.nhs.uk/infections
The launch of the second Annual Evidence Update on HIV coincides with World AIDS Day on 1st December 2009.
This year's focus is on HIV and children, due to the publication in 2009 on guidance around the testing of children with HIV positive parents. Sub topics within this include:
* Mother to child transmission
* HIV testing in children
* Management of HIV in adolescents and children.
Experts in the field provide summaries on these subtopics, and links to other useful websites are also available.
Feedback about the resources included in this update is welcome.
Background to the NHS Evidence Specialist Collections and Annual Evidence Updates
The specialist collections 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 specialist collection 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 December 2, 2009 9:51 PM