- Introduction - Living with HIV
- Just found out you're HIV-positive?
- HIV, the basics
- Telling people you are HIV-positive
- Getting HIV treatment and care
- Key tests to monitor HIV - CD4 and viral load
- Anti-HIV treatment
- Adherence
- Side-effects
- Symptoms and illnesses
- Mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
- Complementary therapies
- Daily health issues
- Coping with illness, going into hospital, end of life issues
- Nutrition and HIV
- Exercise
- Mental health
- Sex
- Money
- Travel
- Work
- HIV and the law, by James Chalmers
- Finding information
HIV, the basics
This chapter provides:
- An explanation of the difference between HIV and AIDS.
- How HIV is transmitted.
- What the HIV test looks for.
- The different stages of HIV infection.
- How anti-HIV treatment can mean a longer and healthier life.
- There are two testimonies, one from a woman and one from a man, explaining how HIV has affected attitudes towards their life-expectancy.
