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Managing Your Health : A Guide for People Living with HIV or AIDS
Book Description:
CATIE champions and supports innovation and excellence in knowledge exchange for the prevention of HIV transmission, and the care, treatment and support of people with HIV by:
• collaborating with and building the capacity of front line organizations to use knowledge effectively to respond to the HIV epidemic;
• supporting and connecting people with HIV, other individuals, and organizations to develop, synthesize, share and apply HIV knowledge;
• acting as a central contact point for the flow of comprehensive, accurate, unbiased, timely and accessible HIV information and community-based knowledge.
Table of Contents
Foreword
How to use this book
Dedication
1. You’ve just been diagnosed with HIV…
2. HIV … the basics
3. Your healthcare team
4. Healthy living
5. Complementary and alternative therapies
6. Your emotional health
7. Your sexual health
8. Positive Prevention
9. Monitoring your health
10. Treatments
11. Side effects and symptoms
12. HIV-related infections and cancers
13. Hospital stays
14. HIV and rehabilitation
15. Women and HIV
16. Children and HIV
17. Immigrants, refugees and non-status people with HIV
18. HIV and aging
19. Access to treatment
20. Money matters
21. Legal issues
22. Housing
Acknowledgements
Copyright
Glossary