Treatment information
for women and their providers

• Information specific for women

• Candidiasis, Vaginal
  GYN Conditions in Women with HIV
  GYN Chart
  Positive? How Are You Feeling? (for positive women)
  Pregnancy and HIV
  Wise Words
  Women, HIV and Older Age

• HIV and treatment information

• Many questions come up about how to treat HIV disease. How does HIV affect the immune system? What treatments are available? What about alternative therapies? How will the drugs work in my body? How do I pay for my medications? These publications provide background information to you for making decisions about your treatment plans.

   

• Agenerase (amprenavir)
  Aptivus (tipranavir)
  Atripla (Emtriva + Sustiva + Viread)
  Combivir (lamivudine + zidovudine)
  Crixivan (indinavir)
  Drug Dosing Chart
  Drug Interactions
  Drug Levels and HIV (pharmacology)
  Emtriva (FTC, emtricitabine)
  Epivir (3TC, lamivudine)
  Epzicom (abacavir + lamivudine)
  Fuzeon (T20, enfuvirtide)
  Herbs, Supplements and HIV
  Intelence (etravirine, TMC-125)
  Invirase (saquinavir)
  Isentress (raltegravir)
  Kaletra (lopinavir + ritonavir)
  Lexiva (fosamprenavir)
  Norvir (ritonavir)
  Prezista (darunavir)
  Re-Infection: Is it a Concern for People with HIV?
  Rescriptor (delavirdine)
  Retrovir (AZT, zidovudine)
  Reyataz (atazanavir)
  Selzentry (maraviroc)
  Sustiva (efavirenz)
  Sustiva, Tips and Tricks on Taking It
  Trizivir (abacavir + lamivudine + zidovudine)
  Truvada (tenofovir + emtricitabine)
  Understanding HIV: CCR5 and Fusin: Co-Receptors for HIV
  Understanding HIV: Cell Cycles, Anti-HIV Drugs and Treatment
  Understanding HIV: Lipid Rafts
  Vaccines and Your Immune System
  Videx (ddI, didanosine)
  Viracept (nelfinavir)
  Viramune (nevirapine)
  Viread (tenofovir)
  Zerit (d4T, stavudine)
  Ziagen (abacavir)

• Tools for living

• These publications help you track your lab results, understand the different tests, learn how to plan a treatment strategy and deal with side effects, or work with your healthcare provider.

   

• Adherence: Keeping up with Your Meds
  Blood work: A Complete Guide for mMnitoring HIV
  Blood work: Two Common Tests to Use
  Day One: After You’ve Tested Positive
  Decisions about Therapies, Making
  Doctor/Patient Relationship, Building a Cooperative
  Drug Side Effects, Dealing with
  Drug Side Effects Chart
  Food Safety, Taking Control of Home
  Liver, Towards a Healthy
  Nutrition and Weight Maintenance
  Positive? How Are You Feeling? (for positive women)
  Pregnancy and HIV
  Sculptra Injections
  Sex and Prevention Concerns for Positive People
  Strategies for HIV Therapy
  Strategies for Attempting Structured Treatment Interruptions
  Strategies for Improving Your Immune Health
  Strategies for Maintaining Your General Health
  Strategies for Managing Opportunistic Infections
  Strategies for Third Line Therapy Options
  Strategies for When to Start HIV Therapy (coming soon)
  Tracking Charts, Personal [PDF only]

• OIs and conditions

• When dealing with HIV disease, it's wise to know about the possible opportunistic infections and other conditions associated with HIV. These materials provide the ways to identify, prevent and treat them.

   

• AIDS Dementia Complex (ADC)
  Bacterial Pneumonia
  Bone health and HIV disease
  Candidiasis, Oral
  Candidiasis, Systemic
  Candidiasis, Vaginal
  CMV (cytomegalovirus)
  Cryptococcal Meningitis
  Cryptosporidiosis
  Depression and HIV
  GYN Conditions in Women with HIV
  GYN Chart
  Hepatitis and HIV Disease
  Hepatitis A
  Hepatitis B (coming soon)
  Hepatitis C (coming soon)
  Hepatitis D
  Herpes: Oral and Genital
  Histoplasmosis
  HIV and the Mouth
  IRIS: A concern for people starting therapy
  Isosporiasis
  Kaposi’s Sarcoma
  Lipodystrophy Syndrome(s)
  Liver, Towards a Healthy
  Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin’s
  MAI / MAC
  Mitochondrial Damage and Lactic Acidosis
  Nausea, Coping with
  Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
  Opportunistic Infections Chart
  Oral Conditions
  PCP: How to Prevent
  PCP: How to Treat (coming soon)
  Peripheral neuropathy
  PML (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy)
  Pulmonary Hypertension and HIV
  Shingles
  Sinusitis
  Toxoplasmosis
  Tuberculosis
  Valley Fever

• PI Perspective

• PI Perspective, the HIV treatment journal of Project Inform, is published three times a year. Articles include recent advances in HIV/AIDS research, advances in understanding HIV disease, discussions about developing treatment strategies, HIV/AIDS public policy issues and information on programs at Project Inform.

• Wise Words

• This discontinued newsletter provides women with important tools for making HIV treatment decisions, covering topics such as anti-HIV therapy, preventing and treating opportunistic infections, gynecological health and more. You can access all the previous issues.