Day one:
After you've tested positive

May 2008     View PDF     En español

The bottom line

• HIV infection is not a death sentence; you’ll be OK for quite some time, no matter what happens.
• You can gain power over your HIV by learning how it operates.
• Learn to check on your health and understand the common lab tests.
• Get acquainted with Project Inform's five-step model.
• Get informed about your treatment options.
• Develop a treatment strategy that makes sense for you.

Project Inform provides more than a hundred publications designed to make information about living with HIV disease, medical therapies, research advances, and public policy issues easier to understand. All of these publications are available free of charge through Project Inform’s National HIV/AIDS Treatment Hotline at 1-800-822-7422 and website.