Just Diagnosed: Basics
- How Do I Start? (March 27, 2013)
You just found out you're living with HIV. What the heck do you do next? Take a look at this quick fact sheet for some basic tips on how to begin answering the millions of questions that may be flying through your head.
To read PDF, click here.
From AIDS InfoNet
Rae Lewis-Thornton Shares Tips for Beginning to Live With HIV (Video) (February 21, 2013)
From TheBody.com
- HIV Health Checklist (November 28, 2012)
A wellness check list with routine lab tests and vaccinations you should get.
To read PDF, click here.
From AIDS InfoNet
- Ask Dr. Rashbaum: How Can I Determine When I Was Exposed to HIV and Who Infected Me? (November 19, 2012)
In Positive Voice, from National Association of People With AIDS
Just*in Time: Time to Get Tested!! A Blog Entry by Justin B. Terry-Smith (October 23, 2012)
From "Just*in Time," Justin's column in A&U Magazine, America's AIDS Magazine.
From TheBody.com
Positive and Past 50: Words of Wisdom to My Newly Diagnosed Self (August 1, 2012)
From TheBody.com
Starting Your Journey With HIV: A Video Blog by Nelson Vergel (July 31, 2012)
From TheBody.com
Did You Just Test HIV Positive? (May 2012)
From The Well Project
- AIDS Defining Conditions (February 2012)
From The Well Project
- Advice to a Young Man Newly Diagnosed With HIV (Winter 2011)
To read PDF, click here.
In Being Alive Newsletter, from Being Alive
- Know Where to Look: Consider the Source When Searching for Information (September/October 2011)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Andrew Sullivan, Daily Beast Journalist, Calls Being Diagnosed With HIV His "Worst Day" (October 6, 2011)
From TheBody.com
- Tennessee: As HIV Cases Rise Among Young, Many Avoid Help (October 5, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- After You've Tested Positive (July 2011)
Part of Project Inform's "Attaining HIV Health and Wellness" booklet series.
To read PDF, click here.
From Project Inform
- Living With HIV Video: A Way to Educate Patients and Provide Support (May 3, 2011)
From AIDS.gov
You Have HIV ... Now What? A Blog Entry by Justin B. Terry-Smith (February 18, 2011)
"First things first: IT IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. You can survive and live a good long life with HIV."
From TheBody.com
- "It Took a Piece of Me:" Initial Responses to a Positive HIV Diagnosis by Caribbean People in the UK (January 28, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
My Message to the Newly Diagnosed: A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (January 15, 2011)
"If you are just recently newly diagnosed I am sure going into the new year you are confused and are going through a lot of emotions while you make this transition."
From TheBody.com
- Gay Men's Perceptions of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Their Experiences of Diagnosis: "Part of the Way of Life" to Feeling "Dirty and Ashamed" (January 13, 2011)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- HIV Medications: When to Start and What to Take (December 2010)
The Body's easy-to-read online guide to HIV treatment.
To read PDF, click here.
In HIV Medications: When to Start and What to Take -- A Roadmap to Success, from TheBody.com
- What Is HIV?
From TheBody.com
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