- 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
Just found out you're HIV-positive?
This chapter provides information on:
- Why it's important to know that you have HIV.
- Some commonly asked questions following an HIV diagnosis.
- Details of how to get HIV treatment and care.
- Some basic information on key tests to monitor HIV.
- Details of THT Direct and the National Sexual Health Helpline.
- Five people – two women, a heterosexual man and two gay men contributed testimonies about finding out they had HIV.
