Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 18:19:49 -0400 From: "Flynn Mclean" Subject: New Educational Materials 06/04/96 CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse Educational Materials Database NEW MATERIALS June 4, 1996 The Clearinghouse's Educational Materials Databases contain bibliographic information about more than 14,000 brochures, videos, booklets, and other materials with education/prevention messages. NAC ONLINE users can search these databases by selecting "Clearinghouse Databases" from the NAC ONLINE main menu. When asked to enter a database name, specify "UNPB" (which stands for unpublished materials) to search all materials, regardless of availability; "CNPB" (which stands for current materials) to search only materials currently available from the distributor; or "ANPB" (which stands for archival materials) to search only materials which are no longer available. To access the NAC ONLINE BBS, set your communications software to dial (800) 851-7245, and set the options for 8 data bits, N parity, 1 stopbit, full duplex, and complete a new user questionnaire. Only non-profit organizations, government agencies, educational institutions, and health departments are given full access to NAC ONLINE and the NAC databases. Over the weekend, 14 newly catalogued materials were loaded to the UNPB Educational Materials Database. This brings the total number of materials on the Database to 17,447. Document 1 AN AD0019954. TI Silent Bomb. FM 84 - Videorecording. Audiovisual Material. AC 325 - Families of AIDS Patients. 327 - Friends. 445 - HIV Positive Persons. 490 - Women With HIV/AIDS. 650 - Law Enforcement and Correctional Agencies. AV Victory Entertaiment, Incorporated 10153 1/2 Riverside Dr. Ste. 422 Toluca Lake, CA 91602. (818) 980-3200. AB This video dramatizes the experience of a policewoman, Stephanie, who learns that she is HIV positive following a blood transfusion. Stephanie was shot in pursuit of a criminal, and received the transfusion during surgery for her bullet wounds. When Stephanie's HIV status becomes known to her coworkers in the police department, she is isolated by her colleagues and reassigned to office duty. As a result, Stephanie resigns and retreats from her friends and family. Stephanie's brother encourages her to attend a support group and live life to the fullest. Eventually she and her partner of 10 years reconcile, and Stephanie comes to terms with her HIV status. MJ Attitude modification. Blood transfusions. Discrimination. Employment. Friendship. Peer support. Support groups. Workplaces. Document 2 AN AD0019959. TI HIV / AIDS Facts to Consider: 1996. FM 32 - Monograph. Print Material. AC 250 - Legislators. 304 - Administrators. 638 - State Government Agencies. AV National Conference of State Legislatures 1560 Broadway, Ste. 700 Denver, CO 80202-5140. (303) 830-2200. ISBN: 1-55516-705-5; Price: $20.00 per copy in 1996. AB This report presents an overview of the facts and issues for policy and program development with regard to HIV/AIDS. The report serves as a reference guide to many current facts, including statistics, morbidity and mortality rates, funding, treatment, caseload trends, and state policies. The report also includes information about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and tuberculosis (TB). It includes an overview of HIV/AIDS, with an explanation of the difference between HIV and AIDS, and a description of each. Information on disease transmission, survival rates, populations affected, pharmaceutical research, and testing is also provided. MJ Information sources. Statistics. State health policies. Surveillance. Epidemiological reporting. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Tuberculosis (TB). Morbidity rates. Mortality rates. Document 3 AN AD0019965. TI Directory of National Helplines. FM 20 - Directory. Print Material. AC 300 - General Public, Consumers. AV Pierian Press P.O. Box 1808 Ann Arbor, MI 48106. (313) 434-5530. ISBN: 0-87650-346-6. AB This directory includes helpful social, economic, health, and environmental telephone lines as well as travel services. The directory contains information for more than 500 services, 1,300 access points for those services, and titles of several hundred publications and documents available from those services. The helplines in this directory provide services to runaway children; work to prevent domestic violence; provide AIDS counseling and monitor related research; dispatch response teams to handle toxic spills and other environmental emergencies; and help provide enabling technologies to persons with physical disabilities. Each entry includes the service name and phone numbers, operating times, and a brief description of services provided. MJ Information dissemination. Information sources. Libraries or clearinghouses. Hotline operation. Health education.