Day one:
After you've tested positive

May 2008     View PDF     En español

General health maintenance

This means doing all of the things that are normally recommended for leading a healthy life. These include eating properly with nutritional support; getting enough rest; avoiding alcohol, smoking, drugs and unnecessary stress; and getting exercise and fresh air — in short, all things our doctors recommend. Taken alone, maintaining good health won’t prevent you from progressing to AIDS or cure it, but it will give you the best fighting chance you have. A good defense to HIV builds upon a solid foundation of general health. For more information, read Project Inform’s publication, Strategies for Maintaining Your General Health.