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- namlife : an introduction
- Just found out you're HIV-positive?
- HIV, the basics
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Telling people you are HIV-positive
- Why it can be good (and sometimes not so good) to tell people you have HIV
- Practicalities of telling somebody
- Telling your partner
- Telling sexual partners
- Telling ex-partners
- Telling your family
- Telling your friends
- Telling your employer
- Telling healthcare professionals
- Telling your children
- More information and advice on telling people you're HIV-positive
- Getting HIV treatment and care
- Key tests to monitor HIV - CD4 and viral load
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HIV treatment
- Treatment, not a cure
- When to start treatment
- Starting HIV treatment
- Anti-HIV drug classes and names
- First combination
- Which nucleosides/nucleotide?
- Questions to ask your doctor before starting treatment
- Changing treatment if your viral load becomes detectable
- Changing treatment due to side-effects
- Treatment for those who have taken a lot of HIV drugs in the past
- Treatment breaks
- Interactions
- More information and advice on HIV treatment
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Taking your treatment - adherence
- What does taking your treatment involve?
- Why taking your treatment properly is important
- The minimum number of doses you need to take
- How to boost your chances of taking your treatment correctly
- Late doses
- Support from your clinic
- Some tips to help you take your treatment
- More information and advice on taking your treatment
- Side-effects
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Sex
- HIV, sex and you
- Dealing with sexual problems
- HIV, sex and the law
- Sexual health
- Sexual health check-ups
- Protecting your own and other people's sexual health
- Use of anti-HIV drugs to prevent infection with HIV
- Undetectable viral load and infectiousness
- Reinfection
- More information and advice on sex and sexual health
- Having a relationship with an HIV-negative partner
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Mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
- Mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
- Preventing mother-to-baby transmission with anti-HIV drugs
- Safety of treatment to prevent mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
- Preventing mother-to-baby transmission of HIV - delivery
- Preventing mother-to-baby transmission of HIV - infant feeding
- More information and advice on having a baby
- Emotional wellbeing and mental health
- Symptoms and illnesses
- Complementary therapies
- Daily health issues
- Nutrition and HIV
- Exercise
- Stigma and discrimination
- Money
- Housing
- Travel
- Work
- HIV and the law
- End-of-life issues
- Finding information and support
- Questions answered
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Stories
- Starting treatment wasn't as scary as I thought!
- The sex police
- Getting into the habit
- Life on HIV treatment - a personal perspective by Michael Carter
- My life with HIV, by Maureen
- An emotional rollercoaster
- Time will tell, by Paul
- Rob
- My journey
- Lorraine's story
- Pamella
- Change of direction, by Eric
- Taking the rubbish to the dump, by Mike
- Will you marry me?
- The bus of doom, by Caroline Guinness
- 20 years and counting
- Grateful? I don't think so, by Susan
- Telling people, by Alan
- Anciciaria's story
- Starting treatment - by Christopher
- Finally undetectable! by Edwin
- 'I just take the tablets and get on with my life'
- Jewelled friends, by Alan
- Headaches, by Martin
- Surving non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, by DBM
- TB - my experiences by Nick
- Living with HIV and hepatitis C coinfection and haemophilia, by Paul
- The luxury of hypochondriacs, by Caroline Guinness
- Matilda
- Bun in the oven
- The Ikea approach
- Billy
- Going into hospital, by Christopher
- 'Russ, not Russ who is HIV-positive'
- A problem below stairs...
- My hero! By Philip
- Bored and horny
- Holiday hassles and HRT, by Caroline Guinness
- Anger
- It takes two to tango
- Artlife
