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Managing Your Health

The must-read handbook on living with HIV

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Table of Contents

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	Managing Your Health
	Acknowledgements
	Thanks
	Dedication
	Disclaimer
	Modules in the Series
	Introduction
	How to use this book
	A holistic approach to health
	Community-based health philosophy
	Advocacy
	Problems with health care in Canada
	A word about language
	Reaching AIDS groups
	Life After Diagnosis
	Hooking up to AIDS groups
	Stigma
	Who to tell
	Family, partners, and friends
	Other people with HIV
	Your doctor
	Other people you deal with
	Sexual partners and people you share needles with
	Emotional and Spiritual Support
	HIV and your emotions
	Prejudice and your emotions
	Stress
	Emotional effects of infections and medication
	Thinking about death
	Talking with other people living with HIV/AIDS
	Counselling
	Spirituality
	Getting involved through activism and volunteering
	Your Immune System and HIV
	What are germs?
	Your immune system
	Your lymphatic system
	The cells of your immune system
	The stages of HIV infection
	Primary HIV infection
	Seroconversion
	Asymptomatic HIV infection
	Symptomatic HIV infection
	AIDS
	Keeping Track of Your Health
	Tests for HIV infection
	Blood tests
	Tests of immune system cells
	Viral load
	Other blood tests
	Other tests
	Types of tests for infections
	Pulmonary function tests (PFTs)
	Nervous system tests
	Tests specific to women
	Tests specific to men
	Health-care Professionals, Hospitals, and Home-care Services
	Doctors
	Finding a doctor
	Your first appointment with a new doctor
	What you can expect from your doctor
	What your doctor can expect from you
	Making the most of your appointments
	Dentists
	Gynecologists
	Obstetricians
	Community Health Representatives (CHRs)
	Finding a complementary therapist or practitioner
	Hospital HIV clinics
	Centres locaux de services communautaires (CLSC)
	Community health centres
	Hospital stays
	Being admitted (checking in)
	Things to take with you
	Things your friends or family can bring or do
	Food
	Visitors
	Nurses
	Doctors
	Social workers
	Pastoral care workers
	Leaving the hospital
	Home care programs
	Care teams
	Hospices
	House calls
	Other in-home help services
	Health Options
	Treatment isn't the whole story
	Treatments during pregnancy
	Treatments for children
	Treatments for people with hemophilia
	Treatments for drug users
	Anti-HIV treatments
	Reverse transcriptase inhibitors – nucleoside analogues
	Side effects of nucleoside analogues
	AZT, side effects and interactions
	ddC, side effects and interactions
	ddI, side effects and interactions

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