AIDS TREATMENT NEWS - October 11, 2007
John S. James

Summary: See our selection of treatment news updated every day at www.aidsnews.org/now -- free, ad-free, and registration-free. You can scan AIDS treatment developments in a few minutes a week, right on the Web page -- or subscribe by email or RSS if you wish.

We greatly improved our free, ad-free, and registration-free AIDS Treatment News Daily Alerts during August and September 2007.

We select important news each day from anywhere on the Web. You can see at a glance what's going on, all in one place -- and click for in-depth information if you want. You can scan AIDS treatment and related news in a few minutes a week, and read more on any stories you choose.

This writer, who founded AIDS Treatment News in 1986 and has published it for 20 years, selects usually five to ten stories from more than 100 published in English each day by news media, medical journals, AIDS community newsletters, organizations' action alerts, and other sources. Most focus on treatment, but we also link to a few articles on prevention, policy, access to care, political action, and non-AIDS medical developments likely to interest our readers.

To check recent treatment news just visit www.aidsnews.org/now. If you want more information on any story, click either the title, or the news-source name below it.

You can publish comments on any of these stories. Comments to recent stories (posted in the last day or two) get the most attention.

If you prefer to receive the news through a daily email message, or through RSS, scroll down to find the appropriate subscription box in the right-hand column of www.aidsnews.org/now. [Note: when using the email or RSS feed, you can save time by clicking the news source (in italics) instead of the article title, to go directly to the original; the title goes indirectly, to create usage statistics, and we value your convenience more than our statistics. On the Web page itself both links are direct (and do get counted), so it makes no difference which you click.]

Suggested Web Sites

The right-hand column of www.aidsnews.org/now lists about 100 Web sites that we most recommend to our readers. These are in two alphabetical sequences: a list of major categories for easy browsing (each line begins with a dash, '-') -- followed by a longer list of sites by name.

Hundreds of other sites deserve to be on this list, but we wanted to limit the size to about 100. For a list of over 750 AIDS-related sites by category, visit www.aidsinfonet.org/factsheet_detail.php?fsnumber=999

Note on News Aggregation

For most people, the main obstacle to following specialized news is the time required to find and look through the ten or 20 articles that are not valuable to them for each one that is. The Web needs human editors who do this for their readers. And many who distrust corporate media will find some news feeds worth reading.

News feeds collecting AIDS action alerts (global, national, or for a state, city, or other region, or focused on a particular issue or theme) could help greatly in organizing public response to the epidemic. New or changed alerts can reach people immediately with the latest strategy and in-depth information (since it is much faster to select and link to an existing article than to research and write a new one). These feeds can serve people everywhere, developing a cadre of educated activists with a knowledge base in common. AIDS Treatment News could help organizations or individuals create them.

You could start a news feed for any specialty you know, for little or no money (besides our time, we have spent $0.00 financing our entire Daily Alerts project). You can have any number of expert volunteers get their own passwords and contribute to the same news feed from anywhere in the world, while you keep control of who can publish. Your news feed can link to videos, photos, or interactive databases as easily as to written articles.

You can help by spreading the word to people who may want to know about AIDS Treatment News Daily Alerts, or about creating their own news feed. The latest update of this article will be kept here at www.aidsnews.org/now. Or just send them the news link, www.aidsnews.org/now

2007-10-20
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