- 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
- Treatment, not a cure
- When to start treatment
- Starting anti-HIV treatment
- Anti-HIV drug classes and names
- First combination
- Which nucleosides/nucleotide?
- Questions to ask your doctor before starting treatment
- Changing treatment if your viral load becomes detectable
- Changing treatment due to side-effects
- Changing treatment due to lipodystrophy
- Salvage therapy
- Treatment breaks
- Further reading
- Personal Stories
- 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
Anti-HIV treatment
This chapter provides information on:
- When anti-HIV treatment should be started.
- The names of the different anti-HIV drugs.
- Which drugs are recommended for first-line HIV treatment.
- Some questions you might want to ask your doctor before starting treatment.
- When and why you may want to change HIV treatment.
- What options are available for people who have taken a lot of anti-HIV drugs.
- Treatment breaks.
- There are five first-hand accounts of life on anti-HIV treatment, four by men and one by an anonymous author.
- Treatment, not a cure
- When to start treatment
- Starting anti-HIV treatment
- Anti-HIV drug classes and names
- First combination
- Which nucleosides/nucleotide?
- Questions to ask your doctor before starting treatment
- Changing treatment if your viral load becomes detectable
- Changing treatment due to side-effects
- Changing treatment due to lipodystrophy
- Salvage therapy
- Treatment breaks
- Further reading
- Personal Stories
