ARIC is a private, non-profit medical infromation service located in Baltimore that works closely with Johns Hopkins AIDS Services. They provide an AIDS Medical Information Service Hotline accessible to anyone through E-mail, mail, and telephone, offering current, medically accurate treatment and research information in layman's language to Persons with HIV/AIDS and their care providers. They also publish a 500 page (plus) Encyclopedic AIDS Medical Glossary and a quarterly newsletter.