Myths and Facts About HIV/AIDS: A Practical Guide to Prevention, Health and Life

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Myths and Facts About HIV/AIDS: A Practical Guide to Prevention, Health and Life
2005





This series of illustrated booklets may be used by health workers to counsel patients with low literacy about HIV and AIDS. The booklets include side-by-side translations in English and Tamil that provide basic information about HIV transmission and prevention, testing and counseling, care and treatment, community involvement, stigma and discrimination, and emotional health.

Part 1: HIV Prevention
About HIV and AIDS Explains basic facts about HIV and AIDS.	[PDF, 6.6MB]
HIV Transmission Describes the ways HIV can and cannot be transmitted.	[PDF, 6MB]
Preventing Infection Explains how to avoid HIV transmission through strategies such as practicing safer sex and cleaning needles.	[PDF, 11.8MB]
Mother-to-Child Transmission Explains how to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV during pregnancy, delivery, and infant feeding.	[PDF, 7.3MB]
HIV Testing Describes the process of getting tested for HIV.	[PDF, 2.9MB]
Part 2: Care and Support--Living Positively with HIV
Care and Treatment Explains what to do if you test positive and how to seek treatment and avoid opportunistic infections.	[PDF, 9MB]
Positive Living Discusses how people with HIV can "live positively" and keep themselves healthy by eating nutritious food, avoiding alcohol and smoking, keeping active, and getting emotional support.	[PDF, 8MB]
Children and HIV Explains how to care for and protect children infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.	[PDF, 8.6MB]
Making a Difference Discusses what community members can do to fight the AIDS epidemic, including educating family members, speaking out about HIV testing and positive living, and caring for or supporting HIV-infected people.	[PDF, 5.5MB]
Feelings Describes common feelings, such as anger and depresssion, that people often have upon learning they are HIV positive, and suggests ways to resolve these feelings.	[PDF, 7.4MB]

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