- 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
Symptoms and illnesses
This chapter provides information on:
- Symptoms commonly seen in people with HIV.
- AIDS-defining illnesses.
- Cancers seen in people with HIV.
- Hepatitis coinfection in people with HIV.
- Six HIV-positive people write about their experiences of illness.
