Resources for people who test positive for HIV

• Utah HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care Program
• Comprehensive Resource Directory for HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C PDF
  A great resource for local HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis services and providers as well as information on available prevention services.
• Positive Living PDF and Vivir Positivamente PDF
  Produced by Seattle King County Health Department are excellent booklets to help you work through the early tasks of living with HIV. Written in a rich, experiential format, these guides will be a great resource for you to refer to again and again.

Weblinks

• The Body—Just Diagnosed

This website has links to things you should know including the basics of HIV/AIDS and just being diagnosed, information on HIV monitoring tests and treatment, dating issues, preventing other infections, anxiety, depression, diet and nutrition as well as how to tell others about your HIV status.

• AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGiS)

Follow the links on the left to Key Topics. Under that link is an HIV/AIDS encyclopedia including information on treatment, resistance testing, living with HIV and women’s issues.

• Day One

Written by Wynn Wagner, this article is a comprehensive step-by-step list of what is going to happen to you now that you just found out that you’re HIV positive. Written in an easy to follow, first hand way, if includes sections entitled “Five pointers for survival”, “It really isn’t a death sentence”, and other informational topics.

• 10 Ways to Take Care of Yourself When You Have HIV Disease

This is a great article from the Gay Men’s Health Crisis about living with HIV Disease and taking care of yourself.

• Project Inform—Newly Diagnosed

Practical information such as making decisions about therapies, building a cooperative doctor-patient relationship and an opportunistic infections chart make this site very informative.