For the most current reports on the HIV/AIDS epidemic visit the Web sites below.

AIDSinfo
AIDSinfo is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) project that offers the latest federally approved information on HIV/AIDS clinical research, treatment and prevention, and medical practice guidelines for people living with HIV/AIDS, their families and friends, health care providers, scientists, and researchers. http://aidsinfo.nih.gov

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The CDC National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) is the U.S. reference, referral, and distribution service for information on HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). NPIN produces, collects, catalogs, processes, stocks, and disseminates materials and information on HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and TB to organizations and people working in those disease fields in international, national, state, and local settings. www.cdcnpin.org

CDC Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention provides leadership in helping control the HIV/AIDS epidemic by working with community, state, national, and international partners in surveillance, research, and prevention and evaluation activities. Most of CDC's HIV/AIDS prevention efforts are the responsibility of the Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID) National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP). Within this Center are the two Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP), charged with the mission of preventing HIV infection and reducing the incidence of HIV-related illness and death: The Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention_Intervention Research and Support (DHAP-IRS) and The Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention _Surveillance and Epidemiology (DHAP_SE). On this site, we find reliable statistics, fact sheets and guidelines that can help members understand the disease and respond effectively to the needs of their students, colleagues and families. www.cdc.gov/hiv

CDC Global HIV/AIDS. CDC created the Global AIDS Program (CDC GAP) in 2000 to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic by assisting resource-constrained countries to: prevent HIV infection; improve treatment, care and support for people living with HIV; and build vital capacity and infrastructure to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. CDC GAP's highly trained physicians, epidemiologists, public health advisors, behavioral scientists, and laboratory scientists support the national HIV/AIDS strategies of more than 60 countries in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and the Caribbean through its country and regional offices. www.cdc.gov/globalAIDS/default.html

Clinton HIV AIDS Initiative
President Clinton established the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative in 2002 to close the gap in access by negotiating lower prices for lifesaving antiretroviral treatment and by working with governments to improve the national healthcare systems required to deliver crucial medicines. CHAI has expanded its scope of work beyond ARVs to increase access to diagnostics and malaria medicines, as well as to address a variety of issues that must be overcome in order to turn the tide of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. www.clintonfoundation.org

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
MSF is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. MSF began treating people living with HIV in the 1990s and started antiretroviral treatment programs in Cameroon, Thailand and South Africa in 2000. MSF now operates HIV/AIDS programs in 32 countries and provides ARV treatment to more than 100,000 HIV-positive patients,including 7,000 children. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/hivaids

Education International
Education International is the global union federation representing teachers and education workers from pre-school to post-graduate levels around the world. EI's 394 affiliated organizations are active in 171 countries and territories, and their combined membership is about 30 million educators. Education International (EI) works in close cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) in the field of health education and more specifically on HIV/AIDS prevention. Recognizing the urgency for a broad, strong school health response to HIV/AIDS, EI and WHO joined by Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) work hand in hand with EI affiliates to prevent the further spread of the disease. This partnership led to the launch in 2001 of the EI/WHO/EDC Teachers Training Programme on HIV/AIDS prevention in schools. www.ei-ie.org/hivaids

Harvard AIDS Initiative
For two decades, HAI has been dedicated to promoting research, education and leadership to end the AIDS epidemic. As the number of AIDS cases continues to escalate disproportionately in Africa and other resource-scarce settings, HAI has directed its research efforts toward developing prevention and treatment strategies to stem the epidemic in these regions.  www.aids.harvard.edu

Human Sciences Research Council
The HSRC in South Africa is a "knowledge hub", bridging the gap among research, policy and action; thus increasing the impact of research. This is achieved through collaboration with key constituencies, including government, other research organizations, multinational agencies, universities, nongovernmental organizations and donor organizations. The Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health (SAHA) research programme specializes in research on the social determinants of health - HIV/AIDS and public health in general. The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) commissioned the HSRC to conduct this nationwide research assessing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among teachers, as well as issues such as the health status and attrition of educators. The results of the research suggest that the high number of educators living with AIDS is cause for serious concern. www.hsrc.ac.za

The Kaiser Family Foundation
The Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the United States. Kaiser develops and runs its own research and communications programs. It is a major producer of policy analysis and research as well as a "go to" clearinghouse of news and information for the health policy community. It produces fact sheets on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U. S. containing the latest data, including key trends over time, impact by region and population, and data on the U.S. government's response. www.kff.org/hivaids/us.cfm

Labor Responds to AIDS
More people are living and working with HIV than ever before. HIV has not gone away. Neither have the complex issues it raises. Does your workplace handle discrimination, return-to-work, or employee morale issues? CDC's Business/Labor Responds to AIDS (BRTA/LRTA) program is a resource for these and many other questions. The Labor Leader's Kit includes all the resources labor leaders need to build HIV/AIDS workplace programs. www.hivatwork.org/tools/labor.cfm

Save the Children
Save the Children supports hundreds of thousands of children affected by HIV. Save the Children takes on a comprehensive approach in addressing HIV/AIDS for children, spanning from prevention to care and mitigation with a focus on orphans and vulnerable children; youth at risk; and pediatric AIDS. Working with families, community groups, local governments and nongovernmental organizations, Save the Children strengthens local capacities to protect vulnerable children, prevent the spread of HIV, and care for community members infected with HIV/AIDS. To ensure a comprehensive and sustainable response to the epidemic as well as mitigate stigma and discrimination, Save the Children integrates HIV throughout various sector programs in education, health, food security and economic opportunities. www.savethechildren.org/programs/health/hiv-aids

Treatment Action Campaign
TAC is a South African AIDS activist organization founded by the HIV-positive activist Zackie Achmat in 1998. It is unique for combining the issue-specific targeted direct advocacy action and staffing counseling and care centers for HIV+ South Africans. www.tac.org.za

UNAIDS
UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, is an innovative joint venture of the United Nations family, bringing together the efforts and resources of 10 U.N. system organizations in the AIDS response to help the world prevent new HIV infections, care for people living with HIV, and mitigate the impact of the epidemic. www.unaids.org

UNESCO, HIV/AIDS Clearinghouse
The UNESCO Education Clearinghouse is a platform for sharing knowledge and information on the impact of HIV/AIDS on education. This site is designed as a tool to disseminate research and best practices for dealing with HIV/AIDS in education. http://hivaidsclearinghouse.unesco.org

World AIDS Day
Commemorated on December 1 of each year, World AIDS Day began in 1988 when health ministers from around the world met and agreed on the concept of the day as an opportunity for all of the world to come together to demonstrate the importance of AIDS and show solidarity for the cause. In 2008, this underlining principle of solidarity and awareness remains the same. And now, there are only two years to go for "the goal of universal access to comprehensive prevention programs, treatment, care and support by 2010." To achieve this goal, leadership and action is needed now. Governments must deliver on the promises they have made. Communities must encourage leadership of its members. Individuals must feel empowered to access treatment, to know their rights and take action against stigma and discrimination, and to know and use methods of prevention against receiving and transmitting HIV. Materials are available from both the World AIDS Campaign and Education International to help teachers introduce it in classrooms and activists in communities across the country. www.worldaidscampaign.org/

World Health Organization
As the directing and coordinating authority on international health, the World Health Organization (WHO) takes the lead within the U.N. system in the global health sector response to HIV/AIDS. The HIV/AIDS Department provides evidence-based, technical support to WHO member states to help them ramp up treatment, care and prevention services as well as drugs and diagnostics supply to ensure a comprehensive and sustainable response to HIV/AIDS. www.who.int/hiv