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Funds for NGOs.org is an online initiative working for the sustainability of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by increasing their access to external funders, resources and skills. It uses online technologies to spread knowledge about organisational sustainability, promote creative ideas for long-term generation of institutional funds for development interventions, improve professional efforts in resource mobilisation and advocate for increased allocation of donor resources for building the skills and capacities of NGOs.

This online resource can help doctors select the most effective combination of anti-HIV drugs for patients with extensive experience of antiretroviral therapy. The HIV Resistance Response Database Initiative is a not-for-profit organisation with the mission of improving the clinical management of HIV infection through the application of bioinformatics to HIV drug resistance and treatment outcome data. The RDI has three specific goals: to be an independent repository of HIV resistance and treatment outcome data; to use bioinformatics to explore the relationships between resistance, other clinical and laboratory factors and HIV treatment outcome; and to develop and make freely available a system to predict treatment response, as an aid to optimising and individualising the clinical management of HIV infection. The HIV Treatment Response Prediction System is based on a computer model that includes information gathered from 65,000 HIV-positive patients across the world.

Help promote open access research in your work environment by downloading one or the posters on this webpage by Biomed Central, a United Kingdom-based publisher specialising in publishing open access online research. You can print the posters out and display them prominently around your lab, your department and your library to raise awareness of the need for open access research, as well as encourage your colleagues to submit their papers to BioMed Central's journals, which are all open access, so their research will be available to everyone free of charge.

This operations manual provides guidance on planning and delivering HIV prevention, care and treatment services at health centres in countries with high HIV prevalence. It gives an operational framework to ensure that HIV services can be provided in an integrated, efficient and quality-assured manner. It is based on the decentralised public health approach to scaling up HIV services in resource-constrained settings, which includes simple, standardised regimens and formularies; standardised supervision and patient monitoring approaches; as well as integrated delivery of care at primary health centres within a district network. This manual is written as a learning aid and job aid for the health centre team, and in particular the health centre manager (often an in-charge nurse). The authors, however, contend that district management teams, which supervise and support health centre services, should also find this manual helpful, as should national Ministries of Health and other partners responsible for planning and supporting the decentralisation of HIV services.