The Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project is funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) through the New England Regional Medical Library. The Alumni Medical Library, Boston University Medical Center, in collaboration with the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), is facilitating access to biomedical information on HIV and AIDS by providing information skills training to health consumers. The Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project grant runs from October 2001 - March 2003.

The Alumni Medical Library serves the faculty, staff and students of the Boston University Medical Center, including the School of Medicine, the School of Public Health, the School of Graduate Dentistry, and the hospitals of the Boston Medical Center. The AIDS Program of the Boston Public Health Commission provides funding and monitoring of AIDS Service Organizations/Community Based Organizations (ASO/CBOs) programs in Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire.

The Boston AIDS Information Outreach Project provides consumers and the affected HIV/AIDS community with training workshops in accessing Internet-related, MEDLINEplus and other AIDS information resources, and in searching the National Library of Medicine's databases (MEDLINE, the AIDS subset) via PubMed and ACTIS (AIDSTRIALS and AIDSDRUGS). The Boston AIDS Information Outreach Program also provides document delivery via Loansome Doc and Alumni Medical Library Interlibrary Loan, facilitating document delivery during the period of the project by providing the service at reduced, in-house rates.

Additionally, AIDS-focused Web pages have been developed on the Alumni Medical Library's Website, providing training materials, Web links, and other information useful to Eastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire HIV/AIDS consumers.