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HIV Care in the Black Community

It's Our Community and It's Our Fight

Prevention And Testing: How To Talk With Patients

If A Patient Tests Positive

Common HIV-Care Myths Among Docs

Calling All Doctors

Fears vs. Facts

HIV DOCS SHARE TREATMENT SMARTS

Give and Get Support at www.POZ.com

Adhere To This

Resources For Non-HIV Docs

Resources For Your Patients

HIV Docs Share Treatment Smarts

HIV Medications and Pregnancy

 
Most Talked About

HIV: Behind the Music (47)

An HIV Doc's Dilemma (29)

Virtual Prevention: Fighting HIV Online (26)

Inmate Testing: Optional or Mandatory? (18)

Killer Gay Sex! (15)

Most Popular Lessons

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Shingles

The HIV Life Cycle

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)


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Resources For Your Patients

aidsmeds.com
An excellent HIV treatment resource online, including blogs by people with HIV.

BlackAIDS.org
Black HIV news, programs and community. Home of the Black AIDS institute and the African-American HIV University, training peer-treatment advocates.

BlackWomensHealth.org
Health information for black women.

CDC National Prevention Information Network
News and resources about prevention, testing and treatment of HIV and STDs,  including FAQs and statistics.

Real Health Magazine
A quarterly guide to black wellness, covering a range of health issues, including HIV, from the publishers of POZ.

TheBody.com
A wide range of information from prevention to treatment.


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