- 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
Key tests to monitor HIV - CD4 and viral load
In this chapter you’ll find information on:
- The importance of tests to assess how HIV is affecting you.
- CD4 cell counts, a key test used to assess the health of the immune system that is used to help guide decisions about when to start HIV treatment and to monitor how effective HIV treatment is.
- Viral load tests, which measure the amount of HIV in the blood and are used along with CD4 cell counts to decide when to start HIV treatment.
- An explanation of what an ‘undetectable' viral load is.
- Other blood tests to monitor your health.
