AVERT - AVERTing HIV and AIDS

This site consists of 17 main sections as described below. These descriptions are only an outline: to find more detailed information, please use the search facility underneath the menu bar on the left.

Main sections

The following sections can be accessed from this page or the home page, as well as through the top-left menu on every page.

Section	Section contents
Africa	Pages about individual African countries and Africa as a whole, plus answers to frequently asked questions about AIDS in Africa.
America	HIV & AIDS in the USA, pages about African Americans, local AIDS service organisations, testing and prevention in the USA.
Countries & Regions	Detailed info about HIV and AIDS epidemics in specific countries and regions around the world, including China, India, Brazil and others.
Education	All about HIV & AIDS education including lesson plans; plus information about sex education that works, AIDS and schools, and where to find printed resources.
Epidemic	Information about the world HIV/AIDS epidemic: affected groups, initiatives that are fighting AIDS, the latest global news, and scientific topics such as HIV structure and origins.
Gay and Lesbian	"Am I gay?", coming out, lesbian safe sex, number of gay people, homophobia, gay men, sex and relationships, defining homosexuality, resources, HIV/AIDS and young gay men.
History & Pictures	History of AIDS from 1981 to the present, plus galleries of photos and pictures relating to HIV/AIDS, and a large interactive photo library.
Prevention	Strategies to prevent sexual HIV transmission including lots about condoms. Also prevention strategies for pregnant women, health care workers and injecting drug users.
Quizzes	A fun section with HIV/AIDS quizzes (general, statistics and harder questions), condoms quiz, pregnancy quiz, sex quiz and World AIDS Day quiz.
Sex	Answers to frequently asked questions about sex, contraception, condoms, pregnancy, oral sex, the age of consent and young people's issues.
Statistics	The latest HIV & AIDS statistics for the world, USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Africa, Europe, India, South East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
STDs	A series of pages about the most common sexually transmitted diseases, their signs, symptoms and treatment, with STD information for young people and an STD booklet. Also STD statistics for the UK, USA and worldwide.
Stories & Views	A selection of stories and opinions, sent in to us from around the world and covering a wide range of subjects including living with HIV, sex education, and coming out.
Teens	A section for young people covering sex, birth control and contraception, AIDS, puberty, sexually transmitted diseases, being gay or lesbian, and holiday romances.
Transmission & Testing	How you can and can't be infected with HIV, symptoms, testing, and advice for those who have recently been diagnosed as HIV positive.
Treatment & Care	Antiretroviral drugs, treatment of opportunistic infections and caring for people with AIDS, in both well-resourced and resource-limited communities. Also information about access to antiretroviral treatment.
UK	HIV & AIDS in the UK including history, FAQs, helplines, community organisations, latest UK news, immigrants and migration, and sex education legislation.

Other pages

There are also other pages that can be accessed from the top of each page:

Page	Page contents
home	Our homepage.
about AVERT	A page about us, the charity responsible for this site: what else we do, how you can help us and how we are organised.
contact us	How to send enquiries about HIV and AIDS, plus details for press and funding enquiries.
donate here	In this page you can find information about donating money to help AVERT, so we can continue our valuable work.
help & advice	Where to find anwers to personal questions and who else to contact for help.
site guide	Some pointers to help visitors navigate the site.

The following pages are accessed from the bottom of each page:

Page	Page contents
disclaimer	Information for the site user.
copyright	Details of what may and may not be copied from the site, and how to make a copyright request.
site information	Information about this site, its statistics, history and creators.
link to us	AVERT welcomes links and we have a page of free banners which you can add to your website.
other websites	Links to lots of other useful websites.