'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice' is an email newsletter for doctors,
nurses, other health care workers and community treatment advocates working
in limited-resource settings, to be launched, free of charge, on Thursday 13
March 2003.

The newsletter is published by NAM, the UK-based HIV information charity
behind www.aidsmap.com [2]. The newsletter will be edited by Julian Meldrum, NAM
's international editor, .

A voluntary advisory panel, of 23 medical practitioners (from the public,
private and NGO sectors), academic researchers and people from community
organisations, working in middle-income and low-income countries, is central
to this newsletter.

The panel will guide the development of the newsletter and comment on key
issues from their experience of implementing HIV and AIDS treatment. Further
volunteers are welcomed.

Further information (including a web-based archive) is available at:

http://www.aidsmap.com/main/hatip.asp [3]

*To subscribe, please follow the instructions below, and do NOT reply to
this email.

GOALS OF HIV & AIDS TREATMENT IN PRACTICE
Our goal is to consider, in practical terms, how appropriate and effective
treatment, including but not limited to ARVs, can become a reality for all
who need it.

We acknowledge in this title that for medicines to be effective in the real
world, other things are important besides the supply of drugs. These begin
with the relationships between treatment providers and people with HIV.
Beyond this, effective treatment depends on wider patterns of practical and
psychological support and care within families and communities.

While the political and international financial context is very important
for access to treatment and care, other forums exist for discussion of those
issues and so they will not be covered in 'HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice'
, except as links to aidsmap news stories.

SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE NEWSLETTER:
**Each issue will review one major topic in HIV & AIDS treatment. In the
first few issues, we will be looking at implementing co-trimoxazole
prophylaxis, fixed-dose ARV combinations, and treating active TB while
giving ARVs at the same time.
**You can order further articles, providing more detail and supplementary
information, to be sent to you by e-mail. This reduces the amount of time
you have to spend on the internet.
**Each newsletter will contain specialist comment from doctors with
expertise in delivering ARVs and AIDS treatment in resource-limited
settings.
**Each edition will contain up to date information on ARVs and how they are
being used in resource-limited settings.
**All articles are medically reviewed to ensure accuracy, balance and
relevance.
**The newsletter is NOT sponsored by any pharmaceutical company.

WHO IS IT FOR?
* anyone directly involved in providing HIV and AIDS treatment in limited
resource settings
* anyone planning the development of treatment and care services in limited
resource settings

FREQUENCY
This e-mail newsletter is due to appear twice every month.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
If you have web access, sign up here:
http://www.aidsmap.com/components/subscribe.asp [4]

For people who have internet email access only, please send an email with
your name, email address and the country in which you work to:

with the words "add HATIP list" in the 'subject' line.

REPRODUCTION AND TRANSLATION
While the newsletter is only available in English and by email (or from a
web-based archive), permission for republication and distribution in
different formats and translation into different languages is freely granted
to community-based and not-for-profit organisations, provided the source is
acknowledged and an electronic copy of any translation is supplied to NAM.

ABOUT NAM
NAM was established in 1987 and has been publishing information on HIV
treatment for people with HIV and health care professionals since 1991. NAM
also runs an award-winning website
http://www.aidsmap.com [2]
in partnership with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and the British HIV
Association.

NAM originally stood for `National AIDS Manual`, the UK's first
comprehensive guide to HIV prevention, care and services. NAM now publishes
more than a dozen directories and manuals each year.

For more information about NAM and its services, use the link below:
http://www.aidsmap.com/about/nam/about_nam.asp#NAM [5]