Centers for Disease Control National AIDS Clearinghouse

Site:
http://cdcnac.aspensys.com:86/

Category:
Health and Medicine

Review (in 1996):

The Centers for Disease Control have set up this central repository for AIDS information, and boy, are they thorough. In addition to offering help on getting into the big databases of AIDS-related information (like the "Culturally-Specific Education Materials", or the "Resources and Services Database", the CDC also publishes a daily summary of AIDS articles in major U.S. news publications (like The Washington Post). These stories range from treatment reports to personal profiles of those afflicted.

On our last visit, we read about a prison inmate in Florida with AIDS who recently had his sentence commuted. News releases from the clearinghouse are also included, along with the addresses for a mailing list and an FTP site where AIDS-related documents are kept.

They also point you to actual humans (reference specialists) who can help you get to the data.

As reviewed in the 1996 "World Wide Web Top 1000" - a review of the Top 5% of all Web Sites in 1996.