- 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
Mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
This chapter provides information on:
- How to prevent mother-to-baby transmission of HIV.
- How anti-HIV drugs should be used to prevent mother-to-baby transmission.
- The best mode of delivery to prevent mother-to-baby transmission.
- The importance of not breastfeeding.
- Two women write about their experiences of pregnancy and measures to prevent mother-to-baby transmission.
