- 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
Mental health
This chapter provides information on:
- The now rare HIV-related mental disorders.
- Mental health problems such as distress, depression and anxiety.
- Mental health side-effects of anti-HIV drugs.
- Four men write about their experiences of mental health problems.
