The HIV/AIDS population in the Reno/Carson Nevada area will win with a new program out of Savitt Medical Library, University of Nevada, Reno under a subcontract with PSRML. Targeting the caregivers in this region, Terry Henner, Head of Information & Education Services, will lead a team of Savitt Medical Library and Washoe Medical Center Library staff. They will promote the use of World Wide Web resources to better enable AIDS caregivers to locate the most current, relevant information in support of their patient care.
WHINN targets the two service agencies of Reno, the Northern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services (NN HOPES) and the HIV/AIDS Service Providers of Northern Nevada (SPNN). Staff from the organizations will be trained to use AIDS resources on the Web including PubMed, AIDSLINE, AIDSTrials, and AIDSDrugs; and will be linked to document delivery service through Loansome Doc. Together, staff from the agencies and Savitt Medical Library will create a Website to give participants centralized access to evaluated HIV/AIDS resources. Patricia Charles, Associate Director of the Nevada Area AIDS Education & Training Center wrote in support of the project, "HIV/AIDS care is changing so rapidly that health professionals will benefit through the efficiency of Internet access. Sometimes the only barrier to not using these resources is the fact that someone has not been trained. I believe that...we can bring health professionals into a new world of possibilities for receiving HIV/AIDS information."
PSRML will again be offering outreach subcontracts for projects such as WHINN that will improve information access to unaffiliated health professionals and consumers. An announcement will be broadcast through the RML Listserv.