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)