World Aids Database is an International Charitable Foundation, based in Geneva, for the purpose of documenting each AIDS patient and his/her progress toward health. Large case studies will clearly show what treatments are working and
which are not. These case studies of millions of AIDS-infected patients will be made readily available to researchers in efforts to first, combat the spread of HIV, and then to work on a cure for this plague.The availability of the information contained in the patient files of World Aids Database, maintained and stored in (neutral) Geneva, dramatically demonstrates the important ways in which information can improve people's lives. The best way to slow this global epidemic is to break down the barriers preventing researchers from sharing technology and information.
“AIDS database is one more weapon in the war against AIDS, using every available resource to help end the spread of the disease - clearly demonstrating on a huge scale, what is working and what is not, says John Rider, President of World Aids Database, US. In this way, the best treatment will be made available to patients, providing each a fighting chance to recover.”
Putting millions of AIDS patients into the AIDS Database will not only focus the forces of the research community on good data, but will also allow for mankind’s largest clinical case studies on HIV. Researchers, along with millions of Internet users, will access and share ideas and information, 24 hours a day.
Connecting researchers with resources and information beyond their reach benefits the public in ways never before possible. While representing a leap in making public information available – the WORLD AIDS DATABASE also demonstrates a tremendous advance in computer systems for networked-based search and retrieval methods within large databases.