Doctors advise that the typical period of time between first contact and a positive test indication is about 90 days.

The following are links to various web sites of interest containing more information about Aids, HIV-1 and HIV-2

The Johns Hopkins University on behalf of its Division of Infectious Diseases and AIDS Service.

ĘGIS & the Sisters of Saint Elizabeth. ĘGIS presents published material, reprinted with permission and neither endorses nor opposes any material.

And Aids and HIV Information Resource. The Body is a service of Body Health Resources Corporation, 250 West 57th Street, New York

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Information about HIV and Aids with links to articles, speeches and news releases.

Direct link to the Aids section of Health Canada, containing information and more links.

The Canadian HIV/AIDS Clearinghouse section is the largest documentation centre on HIV/AIDS in Canada.

The aim of the BBC World Service Aids Project is:  -To provide accurate and useful information about AIDS to the general public, including those most at risk.  -To increase awareness of the main risk factors. -To inform listeners about how to practice safer sex, and about other means of preventing the spread of HIV infection.  -To dispel some of the myths about AIDS.  -To explore the experiences of sufferers and their families.  -To explain how AIDS can be treated.   -Ultimately to help limit and reduce the spread of AIDS.

Founded as part of the activist group AIDS Action Now!, CATIE became an independent, non-profit community-based organization in 1991.

Inspiration, information and advocacy for people living with AIDS.  Project Inform has been at the front lines in the fight against HIV and AIDs since 1985—when reliable information about the disease and its treatment was nearly impossible to obtain.