HIV living
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Fight HIV and AIDS with better nutrition
How important is a balanced diet for those living with HIV? Tips to help you deal with various conditions that may affect your nutrition.
How important is a balanced diet for those living with HIV? Tips to help you deal with various conditions that may affect your nutrition.
How ART treatment is saving lives
The treatment of HIV infection as a chronic manageable disease, instead of a fatal one, has become a reality thanks to ART treatment.
The treatment of HIV infection as a chronic manageable disease, instead of a fatal one, has become a reality thanks to ART treatment.
How HIV can affect your pregnancy
With advances in HIV treatment and the correct nutrition, risk of passing the infection to your unborn child have been greatly reduced to less than 1%.
The risk of passing HIV from mother to baby can be as low as 1 in 100 when the correct steps are taken.
How to stay negative when at risk of becoming HIV+
There are drugs available and new innovations like an implant, as well as tips that go a long way to reducing the risk of spreading HIV.
Take the relevant precautions and prevent transmission against the HIV virus.
Relationships in this HIV and AIDS era
People living with HIV and AIDS live in fear of rejection and fear disclosing their status to those around them for fear of being judged and discarded.
Dating and HIV. Both sides of the story. What are the associated risks?
Side effects of HIV treatment
These unwanted effects are often mild, but sometimes they are more serious and can have a major impact on health or quality of life.
The common long and short term side effects of HIV treatment (ARV’s) and how to handle them.
Substance abuse and HIV: A risky business
HIV and substance abuse have been very closely linked.
Educate yourself on the dangers and risks substance abuse has on HIV and transmission thereof.
The benefits exercise has on HIV
People diagnosed with HIV/AIDS can live long, healthy lives, if they get medical care and take care of their bodies and this includes getting regular exercise.
What is the role and importance exercise plays when HIV positive? Control some of the long-term side effects of HIV treatment.
The dangers of delaying ART treatment
When to start Antiretrovirals and the reasons behind why you should not delay treatment.
When to start Antiretrovirals and the reasons behind why you should not delay treatment.
The stigma surrounding HIV and why
HIV is not just a medical issue – it’s also a social one.
HIV is not just a medical problem, it’s also a social one. What are the consequences of the HIV stigma and how bad is it in South Africa?
When non-adherence to ARVs is a risk to your health
Adherence counselling.
Intentional and unintentional adherence to HIV medication (ARV’s) can result in serious consequences to your health.
A medical breakthrough for HIV: is a cure “reachable”?
If not treated correctly, HIV can evolve into a condition known as AIDS.
HIV can remain dormant in your body.
First two-drug combination pill for HIV treatment
HIV treatment usually involves pills containing two inhibitors with important functions.
Before this landmark development, it was impossible for HIV patients to cover all of their needs through a single pill.
How to Manage the Risk of Diabetes When HIV positive
Your lifestyle, including the food you eat, really does impact your health.
We understand that coping with HIV is challenging enough for any patient, but the risk of acquiring Diabetes must not be forgotten.
10 Ways to stay healthy when you’re HIV-positive
Treatment is the beginning. The rest is a lifestyle.
A treatment plan is vital but a few lifestyle changes can intensify positive outcomes.
What a ‘good’ nutritional plan looks like, when coping with HIV
Three rules to eat by for a stronger immune system.
Know what to eat for good nutrition.
Your eating and ARV treatment
It’s a partnership.
Coping with your diagnosis itself is a major uphill climb.
Finding the right care close to you
Finding the right type of care provider near you is easier than you think.
Find out everything there is to know about palliative and hospice care from AllLife Insurance.