- 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
Side-effects
This chapter provides information on:
- The types of side-effects you might experience when taking anti-HIV drugs.
- When side-effects might develop.
- Three major side-effects which can develop in people taking HIV drugs called lipodystrophy, peripheral neuropathy and nausea.
- Four men write about their experiences of side-effects.

