A Woman S Guide To Living With Hiv Infection

Written by three experts with extensive experience helping people with HIV/AIDS, this trusted resource is the complete guide to better physical and emotional health for women living with HIV or AIDS. It covers the full range of health and emotional issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing topics of special interest to women, including gynecologic disorders, reproductive choices, contraception, and pregnancy. The world of HIV/AIDS diagnosis and therapy is changing dramatically. At-home testing is now available, people exposed to the virus may be able to get immediate treatment, and the number of dominant classes of HIV treatment has increased from four to six. This new edition of A Woman’s Guide to Living with HIV Infection includes the latest information on diagnosis and treatments as well as recent findings about pregnancy and HIV, starting treatments when you have HIV-related complications, liver health and hepatitis, and sexual health.

The complete guide to better physical and emotional health for women living with HIV or AIDS. It covers the full range of health and emotional issues faced by people with HIV while also addressing topics of special interest to women, including gynaecologic disorders, reproductive choices, contraception, and pregnancy.

There are now more people living with HIV in the UK than ever before. In 2015, an estimated 101,200 people in the UK were living with HIV, 13% of whom were unaware of their infection. More than 6,000 people were newly diagnosed with HIV in 2015. This book can help people recognise signs and symptoms of HIV and AIDS. It can also help people identify and avoid risky behaviors that may lead to an HIV infection. Seeking to remove the unknown from this mysterious disease, this book clears up what HIV is, and how it is identified and treated. It also explains other sicknesses you can get when you are HIV positive. Most importantly, it talks about how to stay well and live a productive life after finding out that you are HIV positive. It is a helpful resource not only for people who have been diagnosed with HIV or AIDS but also for their friends and family members.

Although the AIDS epidemic has generated worldwide concern, very little attention has been paid to its impact on the increasing numbers of women who have been infected. Women with HIV disease are in many ways a unique group - their clinical symptoms can differ from those of men, and because they are the ones who bear and usually care for children, they have different psychosocial concerns and needs. This book - written by experts in the fields of law, medicine, nursing, public health, social work, ethics, and psychiatry, and enriched by personal accounts from women who have been living with the disease - is a guide to the medical and social treatment of women with HIV.