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Positive Living
A Positive Woman's Survival Kit (1999)
"Published by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), ""A Positive Woman’s Survival Kit"" is written by and for women living with HIV/AIDS. This kit is designed primarily for women in countries with few resources therefore the authors chose not to focus on treatments which are not widely available. The first part of the kit focuses mainly on the voices of positive women. The second part consists of Fact Sheets which provide readers with more information on specific subjects"
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A Practical Guide to Nutrition for Persons Living with HIV Disease (1998)
Explains the problem of weight loss and how to deal with it as well as how to eat to stay healthy and get the nutrients you need.
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Assessment of Nutritional Status for Adults, Using Weight and Height (2005)
Explains how to calculate body mass index (BMI) and when to take action based on changes in BMI. Includes a BMI reference table that helps you determine where you fall in the range of underweight to normal to overweight.
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Behavior Management in Clinical HIV Care: Part II Secondary Prevention of HIV (2003)
Materials from a CD-ROM prepared for the NY/NJ Faculty Development Meeting. This was developed to help train physicians and other providers in developing skills to work with patients in HIV prevention. It includes information on adult learning theory and training and presentation skills, sample PowerPoint slides and background information on behavior change theory, and games and role plays.
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Boosting your energy (2003)
Part of a series. Lists a number of causes of fatigue and ways to deal with them.
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Building Resilience in Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (2003)
"A guide to psychosocial support for children. It’s designed to help parents, caregivers and teachers understand children who are caring for a sick parent, who have lost a parent, and/or who themselves are HIV positive. It provides practical advice on supporting children who have experienced loss, and suggests helpful discussions and games. "
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Contraception for Women on First-Line Antiretrovirals (2005)
"A summary of WHO's guidance, fleshed out so that it's more useful for providers."
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Coping with Chronic Illness (1996)
"In their own words, people with chronic illness describe how they've learned to cope with a changed life. Beginning with the shock, guilt and anger of diagnosis; learning to accept, solve problems and cope; and finally adapting to a changed sense of self. The chronological sequence opens with fear and grief, but concludes with hope."
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Fact Sheet: Nutrition (2001)
This fact sheet explains how HIV/AIDS affects appetite and weight loss and offers plenty of helpful advice on how to make eating enjoyable.
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Food and Nutrition Counselling for PLWHA on Antiretroviral Therapy: A job aid for counselors and antiretroviral therapy (ART) service providers (2005)
"Provides step-by-step information to help counselors and service providers to counsel on nutrition and HIV for PLWHA on ART. It can be used to prepare a client for ART, to counsel clients who are taking ART, and during subsequent follow-up and home visits to ART clients. It can also be used in training counselors and ART service providers."
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Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance: Technical Note No. 7: August 2003: Technical Notes: Food and Nutrition Implications of Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource Limited Settings (2003)
This technical note provides information and guidance about the food and nutrition implications of ART and how to manage the effects of these implications in resource limited settings. The purpose of the document is to assist program planners, groups developing guidance on care and support, service providers, and networks of people living with HIV/AIDS to understand and address ART interactions with food and nutrition. The information presented here can also help managers of programs that include ART components to incorporate food and nutrition counseling and other interventions as needed. While this document is not designed for direct use by community-level health workers, it can be used to support the development of communication materials such as counseling aids, as well as training materials.
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Food, Health, and You - Living with HIV (2004)
Explains how to ear healthy, including planning meals better, how to gain weight, how to lower your cholesterol and ways to avoid getting sick from spoiled foods.
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Good For You! (2005)
"This provides tips on how to increase food intake and eat a variety of foods, how to practice good hygiend and how to live a positive lifestyle."
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Good Oral Health is Important (2004)
"Explains the importance of oral health in HIV, explains oral health problems such as gum disease, and gives tips on prevention and care."
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Growing up together in India (2004)
"Using a rights-based approach, this booklet examines how to care for and support children affected by HIV/AIDS. Sections on the first five years, ages 6-12, and ages 13-18."
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HIV & Psychiatry: A Training and Resource Manual (1997)
This manual is designed to aid in HIV/AIDS psychiatry training. Includes case studies and multiple-choice questions.
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HIV & Sex (2004)
Part of an information series for HIV-positive people. This booklet is an introduction to sexual health for people with HIV. It explains why sexual health is important and the steps you can take to protect your own and other people's sexual health. It provides a brief introduction to common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and their potential health implications. Reinfection (or superinfection) and sexual problems are also covered
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HIV and your mouth (2003)
Part of a series. Explains how HIV may affect the oral environment and what PLHA can do to promote oral health.
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HIV/AIDS and Care of the Teeth and Gum (2002)
This is a new chapter for the book Where There is No Dentist. It is an attempt to put together useful information for the community dental worker on how to give good care in the midst of the HIV/AIDS crisis. It discusses how HIV/AIDS may affect the teeth and gums and how teeth and gum problem may be affected by HIV/AIDS. It also covers safe hygiene practices so as to prevent further spread of HIV, provides basic information on other risk factors, and discusses caring for PLHA in your community.
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HIV/AIDS and Nutrition: A review of the literature and recommendations for nutritional care and support in sub-Saharan Africa (2000)
"This paper informs health professionals working in nutrition and/or health programs about the role of nutrition in HIV infection in African settings, and describes three overlapping processes that lead to weight loss and wasting in PLWHA: reductions in food intake, nutrient malabsorption, and metabolic alterations."
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HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Nutrition, Care and Support (2001)
This guide is intended to help development program managers make recommendations on food management and nutritional issues for households with members who are HIV-infected or living with AIDS. The information focuses on dietary and care practices for adults during different stages of HIV and also provides suggestions for all household and community members coping with the infection and trying to maintain their health and nutritional status. 6 modules.
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I want to return to work (2003)
Part of a series. This factsheet explored some of the issues facing people considering a return to work and aims to provide practical information and advice.
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Involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS in treatment preparedness in Thailand. (2004)
"Patient groups and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have been working to provide PLHA with enough knowledge to make informed decisions on treatment and to play a central role as partners in the provision of care. This began in November 2000 as a nationwide community response to inadequate access to the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections (OIs), and has prepared the ground for PLHA to provide practical support for the rapidly increasing access to antiretroviral drugs provided by the government. The activities have included a behavior change communication campaign."
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Living Openly: HIV positive South Africans tell their stories (2000)
This document focuses on personal stories of PLHA. It hopes to form an increasing emphasis on care and support issues which a key to an expanded response to the epidemic.
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Living Positively - A community based approach to combat HIV/AIDS (2003)
This resource pack is to be used specifically at the grassroots of society, in local communities to provide education, support and hope for all who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. It is meant for those who seek to engage in the moral, spiritual and medical issues that affect both family life and the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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Living with body shape change (2003)
Part of a series. Explains how lipidystrophy is experienced and dealt with by some people.
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Living with HIV & Dementia: A guide for the Extended Family (1996)
"This brochure explains dementia in the context of PLHA. It also encourages caregivers to learn ways to reduce stress and discusses the legal steps that safeguard the rights of those suffering from dementia, while enabling those who care about them to act on their behalf."
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Living with HIV: Feelings (2002)
"Part of a series. Provides information on how to respect feelings, deal with stress, and get support."
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Living with HIV: Sex (2002)
Part of a series. Provides information on safer sex options and how to talk with a sexual partner.
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Living with HIV: Staying healthy (2002)
"Part of a series. Provides suggestions on how to eat well, stay active, and avoid infections."
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Medical Appointments (2005)
This fact sheet provides practical advice on how to prepare for an office visit and how to get the info you seek from your provider.
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Mental Health and HIV Infection: What you should know
"Explains depression, how medical problems or medication relate to depression, specific concerns for PLHA, and how to get help."
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Mental Health Care for People Living with or Affected by HIV/AIDS: A practical guide (1999)
"This guide covers information on a broad range of topics related to mental health care for PLHA, such as how to set up and establish services, how to deliver services, and how to evaluate services."
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Nutrient Requirements for People Living with HIV/AIDS (2003)
This document reports on the conclusions and recommendations of a technical consultation on the nutrient requirements of PLHA.
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Nutrition (2005)
"Part of an information series for HIV-positive people. This booklet is intended to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about food, nutrition and HIV infection. It outlines how to eat well if you are HIV-positive and the sort of foods you should eat to keep well if you experience changes in your metabolism whilst taking anti-HIV medication. Information on the sort of food you need to eat to maximize absorption of anti-HIV drugs is included. It also gives advice on how to prevent weight loss and food-borne infections."
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Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A handbook for people living with AIDS and their careers
"This provides information on good nutrition, as well as common problems in PLHA that affect nutrition."
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Nutrition and HIV/AIDS: A training manual (2003)
This manual is intended to complement materials used in institutions of higher learning to improve the quality of training in nutrition and HIV/AIDS. The manual provides a comprehensive source of information on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, and provides instructors with technical content, presentations, practical exercises, and handout materials that can be used for planning and facilitating courses and lectures.
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Nutrition Counselling, Care and Support for HIV-infected Women: Guidelines on HIV-related Care, Treatment and Support for HIV-infected Women and Their Children in Resource-constrained Settings (2004)
These guidelines cover the nutritional needs of HIV + women, including information on special requirement during pregnancy and lactation and during ARV treatment. They also provide recommendations on treatment, including iron and vitamin A supplementation and management of wasting.
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Nutrition for PLWHA - Counselling Cards (2005)
These cards are designed for counselors and health workers to enhance nutrition counseling for PLWHA. These cards can help PLWHA or their caregivers to make informed choices for improving their nutrition, identify and use locally available foods to meet their nutritional needs, understand and adopt practices that promote a healthier nutritional status, and understand how to use diet to manage common HIV/AIDS related conditions.
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Nutrition for PLWHA: A meal planning tool (2005)
"Provides tips on how to ear healthy, examples of food choices in each food group along with speacil preparation considerations, and a daily meal planner chart."
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Nutrition: Eating Healthy (2003)
Provides basic information on good nutrition and the special issues PLHA may have with nutrition.
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Nutritional Care and Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda: Guidelines for Service Providers (2004)
These guidelines are meant for use by service providers who have the primary responsibility of support and care for HIV/AIDS patients in Uganda.
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Nutritional Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS: Answers to frequently asked questions (2005)
"This booklet answers commonly asked questions on nutrition and HIV/AIDS, including some on maintaining body composition and traditional herb therapy. "
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Planning Our Future: A Booklet for Families and Communities (2004)
"This booklet is intended for use by families and communities affected by HIV. It discusses family planning issues such as planning for care of children, writing wills, and creating memory boxes. The booklet also discusses living positively and speaking of HIV openly with family members."
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Positive Development: Setting Up Self-Help Groups and Advocating for Change (1998)
This manual from the Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS is for the development and sustaining of grass-roots support and advocacy initiatives for people living with HIV/AIDS.
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Positive living : A practical guide for people with HIV (1999)
"This guide has been developed for people with HIV infection by health professionals and people living with HIV. It is intended to offer HIV positive persons three main things: hope for the future, information about how to take good care of themselves, and referrals to the many organizations and people in the community who are ready to help them when they need it. Describes dealing with fear, telling others the condition and hope for the future. Explains how to deal with the positive condition including choosing a health care provider, immune system basics, avoiding minor infections, alternative and complementary medicine, etc. Describes how to take care of oneself in terms of nutrition, drugs and alcohol, rest and traveling internationally. Also discusses pregnancy, parenting and legal issues associated with HIV positive persons."
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Positive Living Manual (2004)
"Detailed, friendly discussion of treatment issues from the PLHA perspective. Includes a comprehensive review of HIV and clinical treatment issues, opportunistic infections, pregnancy, mental health, nutrition, exercise and safer sex"
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Positive Speakers Bureau (2003)
"In detail, describes the rationale and practical steps for setting up a positive speakers bureau. Includes many useful sample forms."
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Principles of HIV Prevention with Positives
These principles were developed in a series of meetings with PLHA from around the US.
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Project Inform fact sheets (2004)
"Includes a variety of fact sheets and other informational material for PLHA. Topics include deciding on what ART to use, opportunistic infections, and positive prevention."
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Psychosocial Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS (1998)
The document describes what social support is and the importance of psychosocial support in HIV/AIDS care and prevention.
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Scaling Up Responses to HIV/AIDS: Living positively with HIV/AIDS (2004)
"This document describes how, in scaling up programs for HIV/AIDS care and treatment, it is important to help PLHA harness their experience, skills, and talents. It describes why this is important and how to help PLHA through their challenges."
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Sex and Prevention Concerns for Positive People (2002)
This publication explores some of the most common sexual transmission risk for positive people.
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Sex and Transmission: A Continued Concern for Positive Women (1999)
"Positive prevention of HIV and other infections is an important issue for HIV positive persons. The article explored how women can avoid passing on HIV to a negative partner, as well as protecting oneself from STIs such as CM1, HPV, and other infections, as well as risk of reinfection for two positive partners. It concludes by recognizing that negotiating safer sex is not easy and sometimes impossible."
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Teen Talk: Living with HIV (2004)
This booklet for teenagers infected with HIV includes information about how to make informed decisions and whom to talk with or contact for additional information.
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What You Need to Know about Opportunistic Infections (2004)
This brochure covers the basics of how to prevent and treat OIs. It also discusses positive prevention
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