Note: This web page provides links to basic information about living a healthy life with HIV, hepatitis C, or both. It also provides links to other Health Library pages with more detailed information on each topic.

General Information

• Strategies for Maintaining Your General Health (Project Inform) and Spanish version
• Strategies for Improving Immune Health (Project Inform)

Adherence (Sticking with Your Treatment Regimen)

• Adherence (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
• Keeping up with Your Meds (Adherence) (Project Inform) and Spanish version
• Adherence (AIDSmap)

For more information, see the Library’s Adherence web page.

Working with Your Doctor

• Choosing an HIV Care Provider (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
• Building a Patient/Doctor Relationship (Project Inform) and Spanish version
• You & Your Doctor (Poz)

For more information, see the Library’s Provider-Patient Relationship and Working with Your Doctor page.

Exercise

• Exercise and HIV (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
• Exercise: Get Active (Poz)
• Exercise [General Information] (AIDSmap)
• Planning for Exercise (AIDSmap)
• Types of Exercise (AIDSmap)
• Sustaining Exercise  (AIDSmap)
• Fuel for Exercise (AIDSmap)

For more information, see the Library’s Exercise and HIV page.

Diet and Nutrition

• Nutrition (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
• Why is Good Nutrition Important in HIV? (Tufts University Nutrition Infection Unit)
• Nutrition (AIDSmap)

For more information, see the Library’s Nutrition and HIV web page.

Mental Health Issues

• HIV, Mental Health, and Emotional Wellbeing (AIDSmap)
• Living with HIV: Emotional Needs and Support (Avert)
• Managing Your Health: Your Emotional Health (CATIE)

For more information, see the Library’s Mental Health and HIV and Stress and HIV pages.

Fatigue, Rest, and Sleep

• Fatigue (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
• Feeling Tired (Fatigue and Anemia) (Poz) and Spanish version
• Fatigue (AIDSmap)
• Sleep (AIDSmap)

For more information, see the Library’s Fatigue, Sleep Problems, and HIV page.

Sexual Health

• Sexual and Reproductive Health (AIDSmap)
• Sex and HIV (AIDSmap)
• It’s Your (Sex) Life: Your Guide to Safe and Responsible Sex (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Safer Sex for the HIV Positive (TheBody) – web page with links to many articles and fact sheets

For more information, see the Library’s Sexual Health web page.

Recreational Drugs and Addiction

• Drug Use and HIV (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
• Injecting Drug Use (AIDSmap)
• Harm Reduction and HIV (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version
• Safer Injection Materials (Harm Reduction Coalition)

For more information, see the Library’s Recreational Drugs, Addiction, and HIV page.

Smoking

• Smoking (AIDSmap)
• Smoking and HIV (AIDS InfoNet) and Spanish version

For more information, see the Library’s Smoking and HIV page.

Wellness and Hepatitis

• A Guide to Healthy Living with HCV (HCV Advocate)
• Hepatitis C Treatment is Finished, so Now What? (Hepmag)
• Liver Basics (Hepmag)
• Nutrition and Exercise (Hepmag)
• Alcohol and Drugs (Hepmag)
• Immunizations (Hepmag)
• Over-the-Counter Remedies (Hepmag)
• Natural Remedies (Hepmag)