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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks, About HIV Topic: Healthy living

To take care of your health, you need to consider a range of health issues, not just HIV. An active and healthy lifestyle will reduce your risk of having other health conditions on top of HIV.

Cancer

Smoking, not immunodeficiency or lung disease, increases lung cancer risk for patients with HIV

News
17 January 2012
Bone & joint problems

Vitamin D May Improve Bone Health in Those Taking Anti-HIV Drug

Editor's pick
National Institutes of Health press release
12 January 2012
Side effects

Limited evidence that vitamin D supplements of any benefit for patients with HIV

News
10 January 2012
HIV treatment for children & young people

ART improves impact of therapeutic feeding in malnourished infants with HIV

News
4 January 2012
Mental & emotional health problems

Study identifies issues affecting the quality of life of patients living with HIV

News
4 January 2012
Nutrition

Ugandan HIV/AIDS patients grapple with poor nutrition

Editor's pick
Key Correspondents
3 January 2012
Alcohol

Sexual health teams 'should offer alcohol advice'

Editor's pick
BBC
3 January 2012
Money

Kenya families facing HIV and high food prices make tough choices on who gets fed

Editor's pick
Washington Post
22 December 2011
Alcohol

Alcohol increases desire for sex without condoms: systematic review

News
21 December 2011
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Earlier deaths in people with HIV due to drugs, alcohol, co-infections, poorly controlled HIV - not rapid ageing

News
12 December 2011
Improving HIV care

MP moots HIV feeding scheme

Editor's pick
New Era
5 December 2011
Dating, relationships & feelings

Serodiscordant relationships for Africans in the UK often marked by uncertainty and disempowerment

News
25 November 2011
Cancer

HIV Infection Not Associated With Lung Cancer

Editor's pick
Medscape (requires free registration)
18 November 2011
Access to healthcare

MALAWI: Painkillers Prescribed for Malaria Amid Drug Shortage

Editor's pick
Inter Press Service
16 November 2011
Cancer

Lung cancer is biggest killer in study of non-AIDS-defining cancers

News
22 October 2011
Nutrition

ZIMBABWE: Food voucher scheme benefits HIV-positive people

Editor's pick
IRIN Plus News
20 October 2011
Mental & emotional health & wellbeing

Help when you're troubled: getting the right psychological support

News
13 October 2011
Health problems & ageing

Growing pain

News
13 October 2011
Starting treatment

Overweight patients have best gains in CD4 cell count twelve months after starting HIV therapy

News
11 October 2011
Tuberculosis & HIV

TB smoking toll 'could reach 40m'

Editor's pick
BBC Health
5 October 2011
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Viral load increasingly features in safer-sex discussion and decisions by HIV-positive gay men and their partners

News
15 September 2011
Quality of life

HIV Neuropathy Pain Patch Reaches for FDA Approval

Editor's pick
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
9 September 2011
Neurological & cognitive problems

HIV Neuropathy Pain Patch Reaches for FDA Approval

Editor's pick
AIDSMeds
9 September 2011
Employment

Fluctuating symptoms have major impact on quality of life and fitness to work, survey finds

News
7 September 2011