U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.Visit www.hhs.gov.
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness DayNational Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness DayNational Native HIV/AIDS Awareness DayHIV Vaccine Awareness DayNational Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness DayCaribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness DayNational HIV Testing DayNational Latino AIDS Awareness DayWorld AIDS Day

Note: Suggestions or comments regarding this resource list, please contact Henry Ocampo, OMHRC, at 1-800-444-6472 ext. 282.

BROCHURES

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) has released a series of free Asian language-based publications focusing on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (STD).

  1. Living with HIV/AIDS - Provides an overview of the virus, as well as information on how to stay alive and healthy.
    CDCNPIN (Search by SKU number.)
    Available in:
    • Tagalog (SKU: E060)
    • Khmer (SKU: E061)
    • Vietnamese (SKU: E062)
    • Korean (SKU: E063)
    • Spanish (SKU: E035)
    • English (SKU: E034)

  2. HIV and AIDS: Are You at Risk? - Explains HIV transmission and prevention methods; dispels myths; discusses testing and lists resources.
    CDCNPIN (Search by SKU number.)
    Available in:
    • Tagalog (SKU: E064)
    • Khmer (SKU: E065)
    • Vietnamese (SKU: E066)
    • Korean (SKU: E067)
    • Spanish (SKU: E037)
    • English (SKU: EO36)

  3. HIV and Pregnancy: Ten Things You Should Know: For You and Your Baby - Explains risk behaviors associated with HIV transmission including ways to lower the risk of perinatal and neonatal transmission of HIV to infants.
    CDCNPIN (Search by SKU number.)
    Available in:
    • Chinese (SKU: E084)
    • Vietnamese (SKU: E085)
    • Spanish (SKU: E083)
    • English (SKU: E082)

  4. Teens and HIV and Other STDs: At Risk? Get Tested! - Discusses testing for STDs and HIV; high risk behaviors; and other issues.
    CDCNPIN (Search by SKU number.)
    Available in:
    • Khmer (SKU: E087)
    • Korean (SKU: E089)
    • Tagalog (SKU: E090)
    • Vietnamese (SKU: E091)
    • Spanish (SKU: E088)
    • English (SKU: D535)

Learn About HIV Testing - Describes HIV testing and who needs to be tested; HIV testing is structured and what one should do if one tests positive.
CDCNPIN (Search by SKU number.)
Available in:

  • Khmer (SKU: E097)
  • Vietnamese (SKU: E098)
  • Korean (SKU: E100)
  • Tagalog (SKU: E101)
  • Spanish (SKU: E099)
  • English (SKU: D520)

OTHER BROCHURES

Clinicians Guide to working with APIs living with HIV
A&PI Wellness Center
   apiwellness.org/pdf/clinicianguide.pdf  pdf logo

Development of Models and Standards for Bilingual/bicultural Services for APIAs
Topic: AAPI Health Issues- Access and Services
AAPCHO
Product Contact: Aya Chow, 510.272.9536 ext.100
Cost: Free
Availability: Limited in Small Quantities
Format: Report | Length: 54 pages
Developed: 1996 | Reprinted:
Languages: English

Taking Action: Improving Access to Health Care for Asians and Pacific Islanders
AAPCHO
Product Contact: Aya Chow, 510.272.9536 ext.100
Cost: $5.00 per unit
Availability: Limited Quantities
Format: Report | Length: 60 pages
Developed: 1995 | Reprinted:
Languages: English

HIV/AIDS Research Literature Guide
APIAHF, San Francisco
   apiahf.org/programs/hivcba/resources/publications/apiahf_annotatedbib2002.pdf  pdf logo

HIV Prevention Materials in API Languages: A summary review of Panel Findings
APIAHF, San Francisco
   apiahf.org/programs/hivcba/resources/publications/apiahf_HIVLanguageReview1999.pdf  pdf logo

API HIV/AIDS Timeline
APIAHF, San Francisco
   apiahf.org/programs/hivcba/resources/archives/timeline.htm

API HIV/AIDS Brochure lists online
   www.asianhealth.org/hiv-aids_languages.htm

 

CENSUS DATA

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month May 2006
   www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/006587.html

Asian & Pacific Islander in the U.S. March 2002
   www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-540.pdf  pdf logo

The Asian Population: Census 2000 Brief
   www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/c2kbr01-16.pdf  pdf logo

A Profile of the Nations Foreign Born Pop from Asia (2000 Update)
   www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/cenbr01-3.pdf  pdf logo

Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander pop: 2000
   www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-14.pdf  pdf logo

API Owned Businesses 1997
   www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/cenbr01-7.pdf  pdf logo

From the Mideast to the Pacific: profile of the nations Asian born pop
   www.census.gov/prod/2000pubs/cenbr004.pdf  pdf logo

 

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS Timeline - San Francisco AIDS Foundation
   www.sfaf.org/aboutaids/

Systematic Review of HIV Behavioral Prevention Research in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
   hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=kb-07-04-10

API's and HIV Testing
APIAHF, San Francisco
   www.apiahf.org/programs/hivcba/resources/publications/apiahf_hivtesting.pdf   pdf logo

Asian & Pacific Islander Americans and HIV/AIDS
APIAHF, San Francisco
   www.apiahf.org/programs/hivcba/resources/publications/apiahf_HIVFactSheet.pdf  pdf logo

What are Asian and Pacific Islander HIV prevention needs?
   apiahf.org/programs/hivcba/resources/publications/apiahf_HIVFactSheet.pdf  pdf logo

What are Asian and Pacific Islander HIV prevention needs?    (Tagalog version)
   www.apiahf.org/programs/hivcba/resources/facts/tagalogfs.pdf  pdf logo

HIV/STDs Knowledge, Behavior, and Risk Behaviors among Hmong- American Adolescents
   www.siecus.org/pubs/shop/volume4/shpv40070.html

HRSA: Asian and HIV/AIDS factsheet
   ftp.hrsa.gov/hab/asian_pacific_islanders_and_hivaids.pdf  pdf logo

HIV Insite: Profiling the HIV/AIDS epidemic in API communities
   hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kbr-07-04-10&doc=2098.46b7

HIV Insite: Systematic Review of Behavioral Prevention Research in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
   hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=kb-07-04-10

AIDS Action: Communities of Color and HIV - January 2002
   www.aidsaction.org/legislation/pdf/PolicyFactsCommunitiesofColor.pdf  pdf logo

Reducing Health Disparities in API Pop: A provider's guide to quality & culture seminar
   erc.msh.org/provider/informatic/AAPI_HIV-AIDS_Strengths.pdf  pdf logo

National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center
   www.nmaetc.org/

Healthy People 2010 and APIs
   www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/93/12/2093.pdf   pdf logo

HIV and Immigrants
   www.nationalimmigrationproject.org/HIV/2004HIVManual/2004hivmanual/

Profiling the AIDS Epidemic in API communities: Lessons from the Field
   hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kbr-07-04-10&doc=2098.46b7

Systematic Review of HIV Behavioral Research in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
   hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kb-07&doc=kb-07-04-10

 

CURRICULUM

A&PI Wellness Center
   apiwellness.org/ncb_cirriculum.html

  • APICHA One Session HIV/AIDS Interventions
  • APIs in CPGs
  • API Transgender Sensitivity Training
  • Basic Facilitation Skills Training
  • Basic Skills Peer Counseling
  • Coming Out Workshop
  • Hot, Healthy, and Keeping It Up! Manual
  • Making Meetings Work (or work that meeting!) Manual
  • One Session HIV Interventions Manual
  • Public Outreach: Street Fairs
  • Sex, Dating, and Relationships in the Age of AIDS Manual
  • Special Events
  • Starting an Asian/Pacific Islander Gay/Bisexual Men's Support Group Manual
  • Supervision Manual

South Asian Immigrant Women’s HIV/AIDS – Related Issues: An Exploratory Study of New York City - APICHA
   www.apicha.org/apicha/pages/publications/pub/021306APICHA.pdf  pdf logo

 

HIV/AIDS TREATMENT INFORMATION

Navigator Guide - APICHA
APICHA's Client Navigator Guide is a 54-page informative guide, available in eight languages- Bengali, Chinese, English, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese. As an empowering tool, it assists clients with information in their own language to make important decisions on medical treatment, nutrition and exercise, legal, and financial issues. The guide helps clients answer questions about living with HIV or AIDS.
   www.apicha.org/apicha/pages/publications/index.htm

PCP in APIs - APICHA
   www.apicha.org/apicha/pages/publications/pub_eckchinpcp.htm

 

ONLINE INFORMATION IN ASIAN LANGUAGES

Asian Community AIDS Services
The information provided in this Web site is available in Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog, and English.

  1. Overview of Anti-Retrovirals
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/overview.html

  2. Starting anti-HIV Medications
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/starting_med.html

  3. Participating in Clinical Trials
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/clin_trials.html

  4. Immunizations (Vaccinations) for People with HIV/AIDS
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/immunizations.html

  5. Treatment Interruptions
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/interruptions.html

  6. Reverse Transcriptasse Inhibitors
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/rt_inhibitors.html
    • Nukes or NRTIs
    • AZT (Retrovir, Zidovudine)
    • ddI (didanosine, Videx or Videx EC)
    • ddC (zalcitabine or Hivid)
    • d4t (stavudine, Zerit, Zerit XR)
    • 3TC (lamivudine, Epivir)
    • Abacavir (ABC or Ziagen)
    • Combivir (combination of AZT + 3TC)
    • Trizivir (combination of AZT, 3TC, and Abacavir)

  7. Non-Nukes or NNRTI
       http://acas.org/treatment/
    • Nevirapine (Viramune)
    • Delavirdine (Rescriptor)
    • Efavirenz Sustiva)

  8. NtRTI
       http://acas.org/treatment/
    • Tenofovir (Viread)

  9. Protease Inhibitors
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/protease_inhibitors.html
    • Saquinavir (Invirase and Fortovase)
    • Indinavir (Crixivan)
    • Ritonavir (Norvir)
    • Nelfinavir (Viracept)
    • Amprenavir (Agenerase)
    • Kaletra (Iopinavir + Ritonavir)
    • Atazanavir (Reyataz)

  10. Fusion Inhibitors
    T-20 (Fuzeon, Enfuvirtide)
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/fi/t-20.html

  11. Others
    Septra (Co-Trimoxazole)
       www.acas.org/treatment/drug_info/other_drugs/septra.html

  12. Health Concerns
  13. Monitoring Tests
  14. Nutrition
  15. Women's Health
  16. Complimentary Therapies

 

ARTICLES

HIV Prevention Among Asian NYC Immigrants
   www.thebody.com/bp/dec03/asian_immigrants.html

HIV and South Asians: Is there a problem?
   apha.confex.com/apha/129am/techprogram/paper_29259.htm

Integrating Buddhism and HIV Prevention in U.S. Southeast Asian Communities
   ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/loue.htm

 

INTERNATIONAL

HIV/AIDS in the Asia Pacific Region: Integrating Economic and Social Concern, especially HIV/AIDS, in meeting the needs of the region
   www.unescap.org/publications/detail.asp?id=700

HIV/AIDS: Where is the pandemic headed in the Asian Pacific Region?
   www.unescap.org/esid/hds/pubs/2251/c2.pdf  pdf logo

Time - Stalking a Killer, article
   www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020930/story.html

World Health Organization - HIV/AIDS in the Asia & Pacific Region
   www.who.int/hiv/strategic/en/wpraids2001.pdf  pdf logo

You and AIDS - A portal to HIV/AIDS for Asia Pacific
   www.youandaids.org/

HIV/AIDS in Asian: Why Worry?
XV International AIDS Conference, July 11-16, 2004
Bangkok, Thailand
   www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=1216

AIDS in Asia: The Continent's Growing Crisis
San Francisco Chronicle - November 17, 2002
   www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/17/MN71391.DTL

East-West Center - HIV/AIDS in Asia
   www.eastwestcenter.org/stored/pdfs/api068.pdf  pdf logo

WHO - HIV/AIDS and Development in Asia and the Pacific
   www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/aids_in_asia_pacific.pdf   pdf logo

Suggestions or comments regarding this resource list, please contact Henry Ocampo, OMHRC, at 1-800-444-6472 ext. 282.

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