- 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
Coping with illness, going into hospital, end of life issues
This chapter provides information on:
- Some ways to cope with illness.
- Some tips on how to manage if you have to go into hospital.
- Issues you need to think about if you are terminally ill.
- There are testimonies from two men, one writes about his experience of going into hospital for surgery, the other writes about his partner’s illness and death and how he responded to it.

