The first public, online database to collect HIV
treatments information launched officially on June 15, 1999. The registry is
designed to follow the use of treatments by people with HIV from around the
world.
People with HIV are encouraged to submit information
about their own treatment strategies, and can also search through information
supplied by others. The URLs for the search and submit forms are available
currently through: href="http://www.infoweb.org/treatment/treatment.html"> face=Arial
size=3>http://www.infoweb.org/treatment/treatment.html color=#0000ff>
(Click the appropriate links to submit or
search).
"This is the first such database online. It is
anonymous and it is the only one designed by and for PWAs, as opposed to
researchers, pharmaceutical companies, or government agencies", said Kevin
Flynn, science writer for the HIV InfoWeb, hosts and initiators of the project.
"The form was built entirely on input from a wide range of PWAs and webmasters
of prominent non-profit websites, who submitted their own information as part of
the testing. Comments were solicited and received from around the world, as this
will not be just an English language database."