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HIV-positive people are being urged to take more responsibility for their health and healthcare planning, and to build strong partnerships with their doctors, under a new project by the National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA).
Launched this week, the Treataware Project, which consists of a national HIV info line, a website and a booklet, is a new information resource for people living with HIV and health professionals working with HIV-positive people.
According to Bill Whittaker, NAPWA treatments spokesperson, the project’s central aim is “to support a strong partnership between HIV-positive people and their doctors in health decision making”.
The Treataware website is Australia’s first searchable and independent website for clinical HIV trials. Developed over six years, Whittaker said the site would be useful for HIV-positive people seeking information about trials and in making clinical trial research more transparent. The site has gained strong support from the health and pharmaceutical industry, he said.
The Treataware booklet provides information on a range of issues, including HIV treatment options, monitoring and tests.
The HIV hotline, running initially as a pilot program, will operate from Monday to Friday, from 2pm-7pm. Whittaker said he hoped that the hotline will “provide a useful, friendly place for people with HIV to go to for treatment, care and support information”.
“The project provides an important new addition amongst positive people and amongst health professionals working in HIV,” Whittaker said.
Visit www.treataware.info or phone 1800 817 713 (freecall).
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