Before You Start Your Day - Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices

In order to live a fulfilling life with HIV, you must make healthy lifestyle choices. Healthy lifestyle choices will make you feel better physically and emotionally. Do all you can to live an illness free life - make healthy lifestyle choices.

Find an HIV Specialist

HIV is a complex disease that takes specialized training to manage. In fact experts believe a physician has to see upwards of 100 HIV patients each year to be considered an HIV specialist. Once you are diagnosed with HIV, it is essential you find an HIV specialist to treat your HIV and to monitor the health of your immune system.

• Questions For Your HIV Specialist
• Tips for Finding a Good Doctor
• Why an HIV Specialist is Essential

Choose Safer Sex - Choose Condoms

In order to protect you and your partner or spouse, condom use is an absolute must. Make a conscious choice each time you engage in anal, oral, or vaginal sex to use a condom. Your health and that of your partner depends on it.

• We're Positive - Why Should We Use a Condom?
• Using Condoms the Right Way
• Condom Buying Guide

See Your HIV Specialist Regularly

Whether your are healthy as a horse or are having issues related to your HIV, seeing your doctor on a regular basis is the best way to optimize your health. Get into care and stay in care, and you will be healthier for it.

• Getting the Most from Your Doctor Visits
• Know Your Labwork
• 10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor

Understand Opportunistic Infections

As your immune system weakens, your body becomes more at risk for opportunistic infections (OIs). OIs are those infections that take advantage of a weakened immune system and inevitably make you sick. Understand what OIs are, how to recognize their symptoms, and how to get rid of them.

• What are Opportunistic Infections?
• Your Guide to Pneumocystis Pneumonia
• Antibiotics Used to Treat Opportunistic Infections