Project Inform Offers HIV Treatment Information Via the Internet and Online
BBS Services.
June 10, 1995
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º Introduction º
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Project Inform, a leader in HIV/AIDS treatment information since 1985, is
offering our treatment information via the Internet, Computer BBS and
HandsNet, a growing network of almost 4,000 community based organizations.
The information available is
o Introductory Treatment Packet
o Fact Sheets
o Project Inform Publications (PI Perspective and the Briefing Paper) .
o Notes on P.I.’s Town Hall Meeting
We’ve still converting some of our information. Hopefully, the remaining
fact sheet should be available in the next few months.
Where can I get this stuff?
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º INTERNET ACCESS º
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*** NEW: We’ve just started to offer full WWW information ***
If you are on the INTERNET, you can retrieve Project Inform materials from
the HIVNET system in Amsterdam, Holland. You can
WWW: point to http://www.hivnet.org/
GOPHER: connect to gopher.hivnet.org
FTP: connect to ftp.hivnet.org
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º DIAL IN ONLINE SERVICES º
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There are several Online Services (BBS’) where you can get P.I. Information
off of.
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º OUTLINE º
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The Outline Online Service is in the San Francisco area. You can reach it
via modem at (415)554-0431 or phone at (415)554-0555. While Outline’s focus
is on providing HIV related information, it has many other resources of
interest to the gay and lesbian community.
Outline has also ported our treatment information over their Pride
International Network to their Santa Cruz, New York, Milwaukee, Eugene,
Seattle, Los Angeles and Moscow BBS’.
While you can call Outline with any communications software. We recommend
that you download the First Class Windows software is highly recommended
(you can do when you logon for the first time). With this software, Outline
is really easy to use. It has a GUI interface (icon based – point and
click). It is one of the easiest service that I’ve found to use.
Outline asks for donations to help with it’s operating costs.
Project Inform’s information is found in "The HIVE" folder under "Project
Inform".
ACCESS TO HIV INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FREE OF CHARGE, logon using PUBLIC as
the login id.
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º AIDSNET / HandsNet º
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AIDSNet is a subscription BBS for HIV Service Providers, activists,
political, and policy groups. It has many purposes of which treatment
information is only one. HandsNet serves not only HIV related groups but a
range of other social service and social justice (political) organizations.
HandsNet provides local dial-in numbers from around the countries. HandsNet
also uses a GUI (icon based – point and click) interface making it easy to
navigate and send and retrieve information. For information about
HandsNet/AIDSNet subscriptions, call (408) 257-4560. To access Project
Inform materials on HandsNet go to AIDSNet / Treatment / Project Inform.
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º The AEGIS BBS º
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The AEGIS BBS is located in San Juan Capistrano (CA). It is the Hub for the
AEGIS Network. It contains two area where Project Inform information is
kept. To download Project Inform’s publications go into the Download area To
find Fact Sheets you can perform a search in the "QuickSearch’ area. Project
Inform fact sheets that are composed of several articles from different
publications have not been stored in the database.
You call into the HIV/AIDS Info. BBS by dialing 714-248-2836.
For information about accessing AEGIS, call 714-248-5843.
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If you have additional questions about PI Online! call our hotline for
additional information.
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You can contact Project Inform through our Internet Email address:
PINF…@HOOKED.NET