Notices to Readers
AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service
The AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service (ACTIS)
provides current information on federally and privately sponsored
clinical trials being conducted to evaluate drugs and therapies
to treat all stages of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
infection in adults and children and to treat related
opportunistic infections. ACTIS is a Public Health Service
project provided collaboratively by CDC, the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA), the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, and the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
The ACTIS database includes information on more than 300
clinical trials and more than 100 drugs being tested. Information
is available on the purpose of the study protocol, the location,
the eligibility requirements, the exclusion criteria, and the
names and telephone numbers of contact persons. ACTIS provides
information on all AIDS clinical trials sponsored by the National
Institutes of Health and on studies of all treatments undergoing
clinical testing for effectiveness in privately sponsored trials
approved by FDA.
ACTIS is a resource for health professionals and for HIV-
infected persons and their families. All calls are completely
confidential. Health specialists provide information to callers
over the telephone and can, on request, send callers a printout
of a customized search of the clinical trials database. A
bilingual health specialist is available for Spanish-speaking
callers. ACTIS information can also be accessed through two
online databases, AIDSTRIALS and AIDSDRUG, available through NLM.
ACTIS can be reached by calling (800) 874-2572 ([800]
TRIALS-A); fax: (301) 738-6616; TTY/TDD: (800) 243-7012;
international line: (301) 217-0023. ACTIS is operated by CDC's
National AIDS Clearinghouse.
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