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i-Base website
The fully searchable website is designed to be fast to access, easy to use, and simple to navigate.
http://www.i-base.info
All i-Base publications are available online, including editions of the treatment guides. The site gives details about i-Base, the UK Community Advisory Board (UK-CAB), our phone service and meetings, as well as access to our archives and an extensive range of links. It can be used to order publications and regular subscriptions to be delivered by post or email (as PDF files).
The site also includes a web-based Q&A section for people to ask questions about their own treatment:
http://www.i-base.info/questions/index.html
RSS news feed has been introduced for HIV Treatment Bulletin for web and PDA access - we welcome your feedback on this new way to provide treatment updates.
A section on Education, Advocacy and Training includes our training manual for advocates with eight 2-hour modules that include questions and evaluation. Training modules start with basics, including CD4, viral load and other monitoring tests, combination therapy and side effects, and include overviews of the main opportunistic infections. There is a module on pregnancy and another module on IV drug users and treatment.
An average of 6000 pages are served from the site each day.
NEW publications
i-Base announcements list
A new free email News and Announcements list is now available. By subscribing [free] to this list you can be kept up-to-date on new and revised publications from i-Base. This is an announcement only list with low traffic, mainly to announce new and updated publications and services. Messages will contain a link to a PDF file of the publication and/or a link to the web version.
To subscribe please fill out this form
Training manual – revised, updated and now fully online
This established training resource has been revised and updated and is now online in new format.
http://www.i-base.info/education
The Training Manual for Advocates provides entry-level curriculum relating to HIV and treatment.
It is made up of 8 modules for learning about aspects of HIV care has been updated and published online as an interactive resource. It provides entry-level curriculum relating to HIV and treatment.
http://www.i-base.info/manual/en
Sections include:
1. Immune system and CD4 count
2. Virology, HIV and viral load
3. Introduction to antiretrovirals (ARVs)
4. Side effects of ARVs
5. Opportunistic infections and coinfections
6. HIV and pregnancy
7. Drug users and HIV
8. Clinical trial design and the role of advocates
9. How to read science
Each module includes learning objectives, non-technical review material, test questions, an evaluation and a glossary.
We hope this will be useful for training advocates and other related healthcare workers as well as for HIV-positive people who want to know more about aspects of their healthcare.
The training manual was previously only available online as a PDF document and has been widely translated. Earlier editions are available in Russian, Portuguese, Hindi and Nepalese as are available as PDF files.
Generic clinic forms
We have also posted online a set of generic clinic forms, developed with the Royal Free Centre for HIV Medicine, which may be a useful resource for other hospitals.
These PDF files include record sheets to track CD4 and viral load results, cardiovascular risk, hepatitis, first patient visit, patient update, day case and summary notes.
http://www.i-base.info/clinicforms/index.html
Please contact the i-Base office if you would like help adding your own hospital or Trust logo to these forms.
Report assessing the treatment information needs African people in the UK living with HIV
This report by Winnie Sseruma and i-Base includes an analysis from workshops held last year and details African use and experience of current treatment information resources.
http://www.i-base.info/pdf/africantreatmentneeds.pdf
i-Base Book: “Why we must provide HIV treatment information”
Photography by Wolfgang Tillmans
i-Base has worked as a treatment literacy project for over six years. Over this time we have always produced copyright-free material and encouraged other organisations to use, translate and adapt our material. Through this work, we have been very lucky to develop links to advocacy projects outside the UK.
A meeting held in Cape Town last year, focused on raising the profile of treatment literacy. One result from the meeting is a publication “Why we must provide HIV treatment information”.
With text provided by activists from 25 countries and 50 full colour photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans, this limited edition 100-page publication is being sold by i-Base to raise funds to help support our international treatment literacy projects.
UK CAB: reports and presentations
The UK Community Advisory Board (UK CAB) is a network for community treatment workers across the UK that has been meeting for three years. Each meeting includes two training lectures and a meeting with a pharmaceutical company or specialist researcher.
The CAB has a separate website, where reading material, reports and presentations from these meetings are posted.
World CAB - reports on international drug pricing
Two reports from meetings between community advocates and pharmaceutical companies, that focused on pricing issues and global access to treatment, and that are now available online.
Both are available to download as a PDF file form the i-Base website.
http://www.i-base.info/wcab/index.html
Introduction to combination therapy
June 2008 edition
This non-technical patient guide to treatment explains combination therapy, how well it works, who can benefit from it, when to start taking it, some differences between treating men and women, side effects, the best combinations, changing treatment, taking part in drug trials, your relationship with your doctor, the importance of adherence, and how to avoid drug resistance.
Printed and/or PDF versions of earlier versions of this booklet are available in other languages.
Guide to hepatitis C for people living with HIV: testing, coinfection,
treatment and support
May 2007 edition
This is a new i-Base guide. It is a non-technical patient guide to Hepatitis C and coinfection with HIV.
This booklet mainly covers treatment related aspects of coinfection including transmission, natural history, tests and monitoring, HCV treatment and side effects, research into new drugs and living with coinfection. It also includes contributions from a wide range of people with direct experience of coinfection. The online version of this guide includes additional text.
Guide to changing treatment: what to do when your treatment fails
September 2008 edition
This is a non-technical patient guide to changing treatment, drug resistance and what to do if treatment fails. It is updated to include recent advances in new treatments and strategies, especially in relation to use of new and expanded access treatments.
This booklet helps patients in discussions with doctors, and covers what can be done if viral load starts to rise, and the importance of considering or finding out why the current combination failed, treatment strategies and new pipeline treatments.
Guide to HIV, pregnancy & women’s health
Juyl 2007 edition
Updated and revised in April 2005, this patient guide helps women get the most out of HIV treatment and care before, during and after pregnancy. It should help whether on therapy or not and includes information for the mothers health and for the health of the baby.
The guide gives information on medication, Caesarean section and breastfeeding, as well as details of other sources of help. It is aimed at people in a wide range of circumstances including positive women thinking about having children and pregnant women who have recently been diagnosed HIV-positive.
Guide to avoiding & managing side effects
May 2008 edition
This is a comprehensive 72-page A5 guide that is aimed at helping anyone using HIV drugs to get the most out of their treatment, the most out of their relationships with their doctor and other health professionals, to get better medical care to improve their health and, most importantly, to enjoy a better quality of life.
Translations of i-Base guides
Original material published by i-Base can be translated and reprinted, and has so far been produced in over 35 languages.
More information about this process is available on the i-Base website.
In addition, PDF files of some of the translated publications are available on the i-Base site.
Please be aware that some of these translations are form earlier editions of the treatment guides, and check the publication date before relying on all information.
Languages currently include: Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech/Slovak, Croatian, French, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Kosovo, Macedonian, Nepali, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian and Spanish.
http://www.i-base.info/about/downloads.html
Albanian
Intoduction to combinatioin therapy - Jun 08
Bosnian
Introduction to combination therapy - May 07
Bulgarian
Introduction to combination therapy - May 06
Avoiding & managing side effects -
May 06
HIV, pregnancy & women’s health - Mar 06
Introduction to combination therapy - May 06
Chinese
Avoiding & managing side effects - Aug 02
Changing treatment: second line & salvage therapy - Aug 02
Introduction to combination therapy - Aug 02
Croatian
Introduction to combination therapy - May 07
Czech/Slovak
Introduction to combination therapy - Jun 07
Changing treatment: second line & salvage therapy - Jun 05
French
HIV, pregnancy & women’s health - April 06
Avoiding & managing side effects - Jun 06
Introduction to combination therapy - Jun 01
Greek
Changing treatment: second line & salvage therapy
- Mar 03
Introduction to combination therapy - Nov 01
Hindi
Treatment training for advocates: a manual - 2006
Introduction to combination therapy - 2006
Guide to Changing treatment - 2006
Avoiding & managing side effects - 2006
HIV, pregnancy & women’s health - 2006
Indonesian
HIV, pregnancy, & women’s health - 2006
Further treatment information in Indonesian
http://www.spiritia.or.id
Italian
Introduction to combination therapy - Jun 06
Avoiding & managing side effects - Oct 03
Changing treatment - Oct 03
HIV, pregnancy and women’s health - Jun04
Kosovo
Introduction to combination therapy - May 07
Macedonian
Introduction to combination therapy - May 07
Nepali
Treatment training for advocates: a manual - 2006
Guide to Starting Treatment - 2006
Guide to Changing treatment - 2006
Avoiding & managing side effects - 2006
HIV, pregnancy & women’s health - 2006
Polish
Treatment training for advocates: a manual - 2007
Portuguese
Introduction to combination therapy - Sep 05
Guide to Changing treatment - 2007
Avoiding & managing side effects - 2005
Treatment training for advocates: a manual – 2006
Romanian
Guide to Starting Treatment - 2007
Guide to Changing treatment - 2005
Side Effects Guide - 2005
HIV, pregnancy & women's health - 2005
Russian
ARV4IDUs Vol 1 Issue 1 - Jul 07
ARV4IDUs Vol 1 Issue 2 - Oct 07
Introduction to combination therapy - May 2006
HIV, pregnancy and women’s health - April 05
Treatment training manual - 2006
Hepatitis C for people living with HIV May - 07
Serbian
Introduction to combination therapy - 2007
Slovak
Guide to Changing treatment - 2007
Spanish
Guide to HIV and Hepatitis C - May 07
HIV, pregnancy and women’s health - May 06
Avoiding & managing side effects - Nov 02
Introduction to combination therapy - Nov 00
Treatment ‘Passports’
These popular booklets are for HIV-positive people - whether newly diagnosed or positive for a long time - to keep a record of health and treatment history. Like all i-Base publications, they are available free as single copies, or in bulk.
HIV Treatment Bulletin (HTB)
This journal is a review of the latest research and other news in the field. HTB is published 10 times a year in a printed version, in a pdf file that we can email to you, and on our website.
The printed version is available at most HIV clinics in the UK and is available free by post.
Treatment information request service - 0808 800 6013
i-Base offers specialised treatment information for individuals, based on the latest research.
We can provide information and advice over the phone, and we can mail or email copies of the latest research studies relevant to the caller.
For further details, call the i-Base treatment information free phone line on 0808 800 6013. The line is usually staffed by positive people and is open Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 12 noon to 4pm. All calls are in confidence and are free within the UK.
Online Q&A service
A new ‘question and answer’ service has been added to the i-Base
website. Questions can either be answered privately, or if you give permission,
we will post the answers online (omitting any personally identifying information).
Find HTB on AEG
AEGiS.org - the longest established and largest global resource of online HIV information - includes HTB in the regular journals that it puts online. You can find us at:
http://www.aegis.org/pubs/i-base/2006
The AEGiS daily email news service also carries i-Base conference reports.
Order i-Base publications via the internet, post or fax
People with internet access can use our website to order and receive publications.
You can access our publications online or subscribe to receive them by email
or by post; and you can order single copies or bulk deliveries by using the
forms at:
http//www.i-base.info/forms/index.html
Copies of publications can also be ordered by post or fax using the form on the back page of HTB. These methods of ordering are suitable for all our publications: HIV Treatment Bulletin (HTB), Treatment ‘Passports’ and all our guides to managing HIV and additional reports.
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