Pocket Guide for Women Living with HIV
Printer-friendly versionThis easy to read Guide by the Positive Women’s Network aims to provide newly diagnosed women with simple, basic information about HIV and the changes it could bring to their lives.
The Pocket Guide provides simple, basic and easy-to-read information about HIV for newly diagnosed women:
- Where to Start: HIV basics, how HIV affects women, finding a doctor
- Living with HIV: information on treatments, alternative therapies, pregnancy, injection drugs, hepatitis C, nutrition
- HIV & Relationships: disclosure, safer sex, motherhood, children with HIV
Ordering info: For 20 or fewer Pocket Guides, you can email them to send them to you.
Otherwise, you can order them in bulk through the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange or download a PDF version.
The Pocket Guide is also available for download in French.
The Canadian Women's Health Network and the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health program are financially supported by Health Canada through the Women's Health Contribution Program. The views herein do not necessarily represent the official policy of Health Canada.