Subject index - Patients, family and professional experience of health and illness... all in one place : Healthtalkonline

Full list of topics

Experiences of health care :
Getting a diagnosis
Getting health and social care
Making decisions about treatment
Taking anti-HIV drugs
Challenges of anti-HIV drugs

Looking after yourself :
Coping with mental health problems
Dealing with your thoughts
Talking about it
Becoming informed
Gaining power and strength
Spirituality and religion
Holistic health

Disclosure, discrimination and other challenges :
Secrecy and telling people
Support groups
Dealing with difficulties, finances and benefits
Work and routine
Prejudice, stigma and discrimination
Telling children and parents

Negotiating Sex :
How people became infected
Casual sexual encounters
Sex in relationships
Telling sexual partners

Looking ahead :
Living now & in the future
Illness and death
Finally, what people with HIV want you to know

Search the whole site
Search in this condition

HIV

Subject index

Clip
Chronic health issues >> HIV >> Aged 46-55 >> Interview 38 >> Believes that basic sex education in schools is failing many young people.

Although he has developed a lot of resistance to anti-HIV drugs, he is currently doing well on T20, TMC114 (as part of a trial), FTC, tenofovir and abacavir, and has an undetectable viral load.

Chronic health issues >> HIV >> Aged 20-30 >> Interview 49 >> He did not gain the knowledge and skills he needed to have safe sex.

Clint progressed to Aids defining illnesses relatively quickly. Fortunately, combination therapy had come in by then, and his original combination (Combivir, efavirenz and nelfinavir) is still effective today.

Mail to a friend