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The Journal of the American Medical Association provides a site made possible through an unrestricted grant from a pharmaceutical company(http://www.ama-assn.org/special/hiv/hivhome.htm). The information is readily available and delivered in a quick simple fashion. The main page presents a window with choices divided into categories. They provide professional papers whose intended audiences are probably professional medical people or individuals well versed in medical terms. The categories for lay people are available with clearly written text and provide links to several databases of medical terms, pharmaceuticals and their effects, treatment regiments and their efficacy, all from the main page. This makes the delivery of information easy and intuitive. The search engines provided are also intuitive and powerful. There is limited use of graphics which helps decrease the access time to each link. The information is timely and credibly given the organizations reputation. With the possible exception that it favors the medical community as its audience there did not seem to be a weakness to this site.

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