- 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
Adherence
This chapter provides information on:
- The importance of taking your anti-HIV drugs properly to its effectiveness.
- The minimum number of doses of anti-HIV treatment you need to take.
- Some things which might help you take your drugs properly.
- Why taking doses of your medication can be as bad as not taking them at all.
- Support your clinic should offer you.
- Some practical adherence tips.
- There is a testimony from a man about his attitude towards adherence.

