| Newsletters/publications (often free to people with HIV) | |
|---|---|
| AIDS Treatment News | 1-800-TREAT-1-2; 415-255-0588 |
| AmFAR Treatment Directory Quarterly | 800 458-5231 |
| Being Alive | 213-667-3262 |
| BETA (Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS) | 800 959 1059 |
| Body Positive | 212 721-1346 |
| Common Factor | 1-800-488-COTT (Committee of Ten Thousand) |
| Critical Path | 215-545-2212 |
| Diseased Pariah News | 510-891-0455 (hilarious and too real!) |
| Notes from Underground | 212-255-0520 (PWA Health Group) |
| P.I. Perspectives | 800-822-7422 (Project Inform) |
| Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association | 202-835-3400 |
| Positively Aware (Glaxo Wellcome) | 312-404-8726 (Test Pos Aware Network) |
| POZ Magazine | 800-973-2376 |
| Provincentown Positive | 508-487-3998 |
| PWAC Newsline | 212-532-0568 |
| PWA Rag (Prisoners with AIDS Rag) | 404-946-9346 |
| Searchlight (Search Alliance) | 800-647-3272 or 213-930-8820 |
| Step Perspective | 800-329-4857 |
| TAGLine | 212-260-0300 |
| The Connection HIV Update | 708-808-3921 (CareMark) |
| Treatment Issues (GMHC) | 212-337-3695 (GMHC) |
| Treatment Review (ATDN) | 212-260-8868; network@atdn.org |
| Treatment Update | 800-263-1638 (Go Sean Hosein!!!) |
| Women Being Alive | 213-667-2735 |
| WORLD (Women Organized to Respond...) | 510-658-6930 |
| Hotlines and Information Sources | |
| AIDS Clinical Trial Information Service (ACTIS) | 800-874-2572 |
| AIDS Research Information Center | 410-783-0684 |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID)/NIH Bethesda Maryland | 1-301-496-5717 (if ACTIS doesn't help) and they have AIDS Clinical Trials Group data (ACTG) |
| Experimental Treatments Info Line | 800-MEDS-4-HIV 800-633-7444 (NY State only) 212-239-5523 |
| Florida AIDS Hotline | 800-352-2437 |
| Florida AIDS Legal/Defense Fund | 800-342-8011 |
| Lark Lands (Consultations) | 717-765-0699 |
| Social Security Administration | 800-772-1213 |
| Resource Information | |
| AIDS Action Baltimore | 301-837-2437 |
| AIDS Action Now (Toronto, Ontario) | 416-928-2206 |
| AIDS Project Los Angeles | 213-993-1362/1482/1483/1484/1529 |
| AIDS Treatment Data Network | 800-734-7104 |
| AIDS Treatment Resources | 212-268-4196 |
| ACT UP/Chicago | 312-509-6802 |
| ACT UP/Golden Gate | 415-252-9200 |
| ACT UP/Kansas City | 816-753-5930 |
| ACT UP/Los Angeles | 213-669-7301 |
| ACT UP/Miami | 305-787-1131 |
| ACT UP/Minneapolis | 612-374-9349 |
| ACT UP/New York | 212-564-AIDS |
| ACT UP/Philadelphia | 215-731-1844 (An excellent "HIV Standard of Care" is produced by them) |
| ACT UP/San Francisco | 415-563-0724 |
| ACT UP/Sidney (Australia) | 612-283-3550 |
| ACT UP/Washington, DC | 202-728-7530 |
| AIDS Treatment News | 800-373-2812 |
| AmFar | 212-719-0033 (Resource Directory of AIDS Treatments) |
| ARIC: AIDS Research Information Center | 410-783-0684 |
| CAN ACT | 718-522-4607 |
| Carl Vogel Foundation | 202-638-0750 |
| Committee of Ten Thousand hemophiliacs | 1-800-488-COTT |
| CRIA/NY | 212-924-3934 |
| Critical Path | 215-545-2212 |
| Direct AIDS Alternative Information Resources (DAAIR) | 212-689-8140 (alternative AIDS therapies buyer's club) |
| Experimental Treatments Info Line | 800-MEDS-4-HIV 800-633-7444 (NY State only) 212-239-5523 |
| Facts on Alternative AIDS Compounds and Treatments (FAACTS) | 415-548-9654 |
| GMHC | 212-807-6655 or 212-807-7660 |
| HEAL | 212-873-0780 |
| Healing Alternatives Foundation | 415-626-2316 |
| Housing Works | 212-966-0466 |
| Immune Enhancement Program | 415-252-8711 (Chinese meds) |
| Am. College of Chinese Medicine | 415-282-7600 |
| Marijuana AIDS Resource Service (MARS) | 202-328-6391 |
| PWA Coalition | 212-675-1415 (office) 212-675-1420 (Hotline) 800-828-3280 |
| PWA Voice | 415-553-2560 |
| Project Inform | 800-822-7422 |
| Seattle Treatment Education Project (STEP) | 800-869-7837 or 206-329-4857 |
| Treatment Alternatives Project (TAP) | 212-255-0520 |
| Computer bulletin board (bbs) of AIDS information | |
| AEGIS | 714-248-2836 |
| Critical Path | 215-465-1015 |
| HIVNET | (From the US, dial 011 first) 31-20-664-7461 |
| Immunet | 212-366-5666 |
| Indigent Patient Programs (where all or nearly all drugs are available | |
| Abbott | 800-688-9118 for clarithromycin (Biaxin) |
| Amgen | 800-272-9376 for G-CSF (Neupogen) |
| Astra | 800-488-3247 for foscarnet |
| Burroughs-Wellcome | 800-722-9294 for acyclovir, atovaquone, AZT, pyrimethamine, TMP/SMX (Bactrim) |
| Bristol-Myers | 800-788-0123 (d4T, ddI, Megace) |
| Eli Lilly | 317-276-2950 |
| Fujisawa | 800-366-6323 (aerosolized pentamidine) |
| Glaxo | 800-248-9757 for 3TC (lamivudine) |
| Hoffmann-La Roche | 800-285-4484 for ddC, ganciclovir, IFN- 2A |
| Immunex | 800-321-4669 for GM-CSF (Leukine) |
| Janssen | 800-544-2987 for itraconazole and ketoconazole |
| Merck | 215-540-8600 |
| Miles, Inc | 203-937-2000 for ciprofloxacin |
| Ortho Biotech | 800-441-1366 for erythropoeitin (Procrit or EPO) |
| Pfizer (other than fluconazole) | 212-573-3954 Arkansas: 800-221-3033 Kentucky: 606-255-7442) 800-869-9979 for flucon and azithromycin |
| Pharmacia | 800-795-9759 for rifabutin |
| Rhone-Poulenc | Jane Green, Director, External Affairs, R-P Rorer, Inc. 500 Arcola Road, Collegeville, PA 19426 |
| Roche Products | 800-526-6367 (teleprompt #2) |
| Roxane Labs | 800-274-8651 for dronabinol (Marinol) |
| Sandoz | 800-447-6673 for octreotide (Sandostatin) |
| Schering-Plough | 800-521-7157 for interferon alpha-2a (Intron) |
| 3M Pharms | 800-328-0255 |
| Upjohn | 616-329-8244 |
| Other Useful Numbers | |
| Canadian HIV Trials Network (Vancouver) | 604-631-5327 |
| Ontario Region | 416-978-6066 |
| National AIDS Hotline | 800-342-2437 |
| National AIDS Hotline (Spanish) | 800-344-7432 |
| National AIDS Hotline (TTY/TTD) | 800-243-7889 |
| National AIDS Clearinghouse | 800 458 5231 |
| National Trials Hotline | 800-TRIALS-A |
| National Trials Hotline/TTY-TTD | 800-AIDS-012 |
| National Sex. Trans. Diseases Hotline (STDs) | 800-227-8922 |
| National Herpes Hotline | 919-361-8488 |
| San Francisco AIDS Foundation | 415-863-2437 |
| San Francisco AIDS Foundation (N. CA) | 800-367-2437 |
| San Francisco AIDS Foundation (TTD/TTY) | 415-864-6606 |
| San Francisco Clinical Trials Directory (from SF Community Consortium (free) | 415-476-9554 |
| National Gay & Lesbian Crisis Hotline | 800-767-4297 |
| National Gay & Lesbian Crisis Hotline (NY,AK,HI) | 212-529-1604 |
| Centers For Disease Control (Stats/STDS) | 404-639-0511 |
| Centers For Disease Control (Stats/HIV) | 404-330-3020 |
| Centers For Disease Control (Stats/HIV) | 404-330-3021 |
| Centers For Disease Control (Stats/HIV) | 404-330-3022 |
ACT UP: Real Treatments for Real People
Last modified: 12/12/97
George Carter
copyright © 1997 G. Carter