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  • HIV and you

    • Your diagnosis
      • Newly diagnosed
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      • Long term diagnosed
      • Born with HIV
        • Children
        • Teenagers and young adults
      • Diagnosed while pregnant
      • Haemophilia and HIV
    • Your healthcare
      • How the NHS works
      • Your HIV clinic
      • Your GP
      • Dental care
      • Your healthcare rights
      • Confidentiality
      • Immigration and healthcare
      • When you're not happy
      • GP and dentist recommendations
      • Changes to health services
        • HIV treatment and care
        • Public health and HIV prevention
        • Health and Wellbeing Boards
        • Accessing HIV care
        • HIV services changes in South London
    • Your treatment
      • HIV treatment
      • Not on treatment
      • Starting treatment
        • Thinking about starting treatment
      • Types of treatment
      • Taking medication
        • Adherence
      • Dealing with side effects
      • Staying proactive
      • Resistance
      • Clinical trials
      • Changing your treatment
      • Interaction with other drugs
      • HIV medication listing
      • Changes to HIV drug prescribing in London
    • Simple science
      • What is HIV?
      • The HIV test
      • The immune system
      • What's happening?
      • Stages of HIV infection
      • How is HIV passed on?
      • How is HIV not passed on?
      • Facts and figures
    • Relationships
      • Talking to your partner
      • When your partner is HIV negative
      • When your partner is HIV positive
      • Blame
      • Children
      • Faith
      • Long way from home
      • Supporting someone with HIV
      • Stigma
      • Break-ups
      • Losing someone

  • Telling people

    • Who to tell?
    • Friends
    • Family
    • Sexual partners
    • Healthcare and insurance
    • Employers
    • UK Border Agency
    • Schools and colleges
    • Law
      • Background to prosecution and the law
      • How the law works
      • When prosecutions succeed
      • When prosecutions fail
      • How do you prove it?
      • I've been accused
      • I want to complain
      • I've been asked to be a witness
      • Thinking on prosecutions

  • Staying healthy

    • Mental health
      • Self confidence
      • Depression
      • Anxiety
    • Eating and drinking
      • Nutrition
      • Problems with food
      • HIV treatment and nutrition
      • Supplements
    • Alcohol and drugs
      • Alcohol
      • Smoking
      • Drug use and mental health
      • Treatment and drugs
        • Links between drugs and HIV
        • Risky combinations
      • Problematic drug use
    • Exercise
      • Fitness
      • Daily activities
      • Combatting fatigue
      • Fitness goals
      • Exercise and nutrition
      • Improving your body shape
    • Sleep
      • HIV and sleep
      • Medications and sleep
    • Sex
      • Are you ready for sex?
      • Sex and risks
      • Staying safe
      • Why stay safe?
      • Multiple sex partners
      • Telling people that you are HIV positive
      • Viral load
      • Public sex environments
      • Risks for trans people
    • STIs
      • Gonorrhoea
      • Chlamydia
      • Herpes
      • Hepatitis
      • Nonspecific urethritis NSU
      • Syphilis
      • Genital warts
      • Pubic lice
      • LGV
    • Coinfection
      • Hepatitis
        • About hepatitis
        • Hepatitis A
        • Hepatitis B
        • Hepatitis C
      • Tuberculosis
    • Parenthood
      • Thinking about having a baby
        • Thinking about pregnancy
      • Conception
        • Self insemination
        • Sperm washing
      • Contraception
        • Emergency contraception
      • Preventing mother to baby transmission
        • How mother to baby transmission occurs
        • HIV treatment during pregnancy
      • Support while you are pregnant
        • Antenatal care
      • After the birth
      • Terminating a pregnancy
    • HIV and your body
      • Ageing and HIV
      • Blood pressure
      • Bone density loss
      • Brain impairment
      • Cancer
      • Diabetes
      • Heart problems
      • Kidney problems
      • Menopause
      • Menstruation

  • Your rights

    • Benefits
      • Benefits and HIV
      • What am I eligible for?
        • Disability Living Allowance
        • Employment Support Allowance
        • Housing Benefit
        • Jobseekers Allowance
        • Public funds
        • What is my partner eligible for?
      • Study and benefits
      • Welfare benefit cuts
        • Disability Living Allowance
        • Employment Support Allowance
        • Housing Benefit
        • Tax Credits
    • Housing
      • Disrepair
      • Illness
      • Community care
      • Homelessness
      • Social housing allocation
    • Going back to work
      • Training
      • Telling your employer
      • CVs
      • Benefits and work
    • At work
      • Discrimination at work
      • Taking medication at work
      • When you're ill at work
      • Being sacked for absence
    • Equality Act 2010
    • Immigration
      • What are your rights
      • Treatment
        • Hospital bills
        • NHS rules
      • Asylum seekers
    • Travel
      • Entry restrictions
      • Travelling with medication
        • Before you go
        • At the airport
        • While you're away
        • Emergencies
      • Travel insurance
        • Insurance companies
      • Vaccinations
      • Malaria
    • Ageing
      • Pensions and retirement
      • Residential care
      • Wills
      • Advance decisions
      • 50 plus

  • Services

    • THT Direct
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      • Have you taken a risk?
      • Is your partner at risk?
    • HIV Health Trainer
    • Your myHIV account
      • Community forums
      • Online Health Training
      • Online advice
      • Online counselling
      • My medication & reminders
      • My CD4 count & viral load
      • Ask a Health Trainer
      • My personal notes
      • My appointments
      • My favourites
      • My life check
      • Your stories
    • Local services and clinics
    • Online services
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  • News

    • Latest news
      • iPad prize draw
      • Parenting Solutions: fertility treatment or adoption
      • Walk for Life
      • London patient survey
      • The Hardship Fund
      • Walk for Life Hardship Fund update
      • London groups
      • Guardian Public Service Awards
      • Clever Dick
      • What's after 'What next?'
      • Can't Explain - music video
      • Refugee mentoring project
      • Media Survey
    • Positive Update
      • Issue 1 June 2011
        • Whats new
        • More about myHIV
        • Get exercising!
        • London prescription changes
        • HIV and your heart
        • News in brief
      • Issue 2, August 2011
        • Positive Dating
        • Is your Lifecheck completed?
        • Positively UK conference
        • New HIV drugs
        • Treatment as prevention
        • News in brief
      • Issue 3 October 2011
        • World AIDS Day 2011
        • Adjustments in the workplace
        • Quinet's Ugandan adventure
        • Lorraine's story
        • Starting HIV treatment
        • News in brief
      • Issue 4 December 2011
        • Quinet's Ugandan Adventure
        • Refugee mentoring scheme
        • Life expectancy
        • Low risk of resistance
        • Inflammation
        • News in brief
      • Issue 5 March 2012
        • Walk for Life
        • Back to Work scheme
        • Welfare reform
        • HIV and diabetes
        • Steve's story
        • News in brief
    • Positive Update - gay men
      • Issue 1 June 2011
        • Positive dating
        • London Pride
        • Condom usage
        • Superinfection
        • Volunteers needed!
        • News in brief
      • Issue 2 September 2011
        • Tackling the spread
        • PrEP: a new prevention tool?
        • PrEP: an opinion
        • Gonorrhoea is getting nastier
        • HIV testing poll
        • News in brief
      • Issue 3 December 2011
        • Tim's story
        • Looking after your health during party season
        • Your sexual health over the New Year
        • Cruising with protection
        • Positive ageing
        • Condoms and viral load
        • News in brief
      • Issue 4 April 2012
        • Walk for Life
        • New hepatitis C treatment
        • Serosorting
        • Sams story
        • Joshua's story
        • News in brief
    • Positive Update - African communities
      • Issue 1, July 2011
        • HIV, African women, and pregnancy
        • Looking after yourself
        • Preventing transmission
        • Eating the African way
        • Telling your child about HIV
        • News in brief
      • Issue 2 October 2011
        • HIV testing in Uganda
        • World AIDS Day 2011
        • Memory's story
        • Accessing care in pregnancy
        • Kaletra and children
        • News in brief
      • Issue 4 May 2012
        • London patient survey
        • New HIV treatment
        • New US treatment guidelines
        • TB and HIV
        • Superinfection
        • News in brief
    • Positive update - young people
      • Issue 1, August 2011
        • Life in my Shoes
        • Taking your pills
        • Livia's Story
        • Talksafe
        • Transition clinics
        • The latest HIV news and developments.
      • Issue 2 November 2011
        • World AIDS Day 2011
        • Looking after yourself over the festive season
        • Your sexual health during party season
        • Relationships
        • Quinet's Ugandan Adventure
        • News in brief
      • Issue 5 March 2012
        • Walk for Life
        • Benefit changes
        • Joshua's story
        • Young people's support group
        • HIV and Vitamin D
        • News in brief

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