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AUTHORITATIVE AIDS JOURNALS AVAILABLE ONLINE AS LEAD IN TO PBS PBS
 in full Public Broadcasting Service

Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural,
 BROADCASTS

Complimentary online access to the medical journals for AIDS Patient Care and STDs (www.liebertpub.com/apc) and AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses (www.liebertpub.com/aid) is available from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers (www.liebertpub.com) until June 8th, as a lead in to "The Age of AIDS" PBS broadcasts on May 30th and 31st, 2006. To view archival issues, click on the Journal websites above and then select Read a Free Issue on the journal's home page.

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, now in its 22nd year, was the first biomedical bi·o·med·i·cal
adj.
1. Of or relating to biomedicine.

2. Of, relating to, or involving biological, medical, and physical sciences.
 journal to address AIDS/HIV, well before they were designated a threat to public health. "Mathilde Krim Mathilde Krim, Ph.D. (born July 9, 1926, Como, Italy)[1] is most famous for her role as the founding Chairman of amfAR, a well-known association for AIDS research. Biography
Dr. Krim received her Ph.D.
, PhD, the founder of amfAR (http://www.amfar.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/record.html?record=200), urged me to create such a journal to serve as a critical forum for researchers and foster advances that would lead to effective therapies. Two years later, we also began publication of a complementary journal, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, which provides clinicians, nurses, health care workers and administrators with information about the latest treatment protocols, new drugs, and therapeutic options for patients with AIDS/HIV. Both journals have outstanding editorial boards comprised of researchers and clinicians around the globe," said Mary Ann Liebert.

An exclusive interview with former President Clinton about AIDS/HIV, the progress and problems of prevention, treatment, and eradication in Africa and on a global basis appeared last fall in AIDS Patient Care and STDs (http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/apc.2005.19.xiii)

To ensure that important research and clinical information is available to those who may not have access to it, these publications are available electronically, for free, in Africa, and parts of Asia, Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , Eastern Europe Eastern Europe

The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991.
, and the former Soviet Union. "Providing developing nations with access to this cutting-edge research is critical, especially given the current AIDS epidemic in Africa," said Liebert. "Knowledge is prevention in itself."

AIDS Patient Care and STDs (www.liebertpub.com/apc), Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Laurence, M.D., Director, Laboratory for AIDS Virus AIDS virus
n.
See HIV.
 Research, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal peer-reviewed journal Refereed journal Academia A professional journal that only publishes articles subjected to a rigorous peer validity review process. Cf Throwaway journal.  that is included in the Brandon/Hill library recommendation list of the top 141 medical journals. The journal spans the full spectrum of HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States.  disease, diagnosis, treatment, salvage therapies for resistant HIV, prevention, and education.

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses (www.liebertpub.com/aid), Editor-in-Chief, Eric Hunter, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology, Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta, GA, is a highly respected, worldwide journal that covers the multidisciplinary study of retrovirus-associated diseases with emphasis on HIV.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Human Gene Therapy, Viral Immunology, and the book Medication Adherence in HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome . Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 60 journals, newsmagazines, and books is available at www.liebertpub.com.
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