Intro packet cover letter

Dear Friend,

This information comes to you with a message of hope. You can do something about HIV infection. Health care and treatment options for people living with HIV continue to change and improve, and our goal is to provide you with the very latest information to assist you with your decision-making process.

If you’re just beginning to learn about HIV disease, we understand what you’re going through. Please take your time reading this information. This packet contains several topics that are
important to understand when making health care decisions for yourself. We trust that this will help inspire you to lay the groundwork for your personal health care. Most of our information is also available in Spanish.

This packet of information includes:

Strategies for HIV Therapy
Blood Work: A Complete Guide for Monitoring HIV
Building a Cooperative Doctor/Patient Relationship
Chart of Opportunistic Infections
Day One: After You’ve Tested Positive
Guide to HIV/AIDS Related Resources
Making Decisions about Therapy
Personal Tracking Charts
Strategies for Maintaining Your General Health

If you have question about what you’ve read, need assistance finding treatment or community resources, or need further information, please call our toll-free National HIV/AIDS Treatment Hotline at 1-800-822-7422 (415-558-9051), M–F 10am–4pm, Pacific Time. As well, you can submit treatment questions. Our website is another resource and is available 24/7 to help answer your health care and treatment questions.

Another program at Project Inform, PI Action is a nationwide volunteer group of Project Inform constituents working to improve AIDS research and access to treatment and health care.
Consider joining PI Action.

We hope you find this information helpful. Project Inform does not recommend or discourage the use of any particular therapy or treatment. This information is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between you and your doctor or health care provider. Please pass this information onto others — your friends, family, doctors, and other health care providers.

All our best wishes,
From the volunteers and staff of Project Inform