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If you have just been diagnosed this can be a difficult time. Hey, slow down. Take time. It is going to be okay. Take time Finding out you are HIV positive is often not expected. Even if this is something you …

Pocket pregnancy is a small leaflet about HIV and pregnancy. It includes information about planning your pregnancy, using ART, delivery and after care including feeding. This includes a focus on the importance of the mothers’ health and how this is …

ART (HIV treatment) uses very effective drugs with a low risk of side effects You and your doctor can choose and change ART – so that you have the best quality of life. If side effects occur, they are usually …

PrEP stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. It is a way that HIV negative people can use HIV drugs to stay HIV negative – even when not using condoms. Pocket PrEP An A7-sized leaflet on PrEP in the UK. This is an introduction …

World Community Advisory Board (World CAB) The World CAB was an early international network of HIV treatment activists that are focussed on better global access to HIV and other treatments. It was first coordinated by activists from i-Base in the …

This online resource explains how research studies work and why they are important. It covers how to understand the results and the roles of the advocate in research. Read this chapter online (Section 8 of the training manual for advocates, …

Read HTB online PDFs Subscribe – it’s free HIV Treatment Bulletin is a technical review that is published every 4 weeks: roughly 12 times a year. HTB also includes related issues including  COVID-19 and monkeypox. Articles cover conference reports, journal …

Monkeypox crisis in UK – plus CROI, bNAbs, COVID, ANCHOR, PrEP and more…

This resource explains some of the ideas and science behind HIV and treatment. It is easy to read. Each section includes a picture and summary notes. Additional text in each section tells a more detailed story. It was developed as …

Diagrams of HIV life cycle showing how different types of drugs work. Picture from ‘Treatment Training from Advocates‘.

Guia embarazo y VIH (2020) – PDF (1.5 MB) Spanish pregnancy guide

diabetes – when the body either does not produce enough insulin (a hormone that helps the body turn sugar into energy) or is not responding to insulin (insulin resistance). There are two main types of diabetes and they have different …

Trial Tracker is a new i-Base resource that publishes routinely updated tables on the web. This is freely available via i-Base’s Google Docs. Op ART trial tracker i-Base’s Op ART trial tracker follows research on optimised antiretroviral treatment for low- …

Guia sobre hepatite C para as pessoas que vivem com o VIH 2018 – PDF (1.3 MB) Portuguese translation and adaption by GAT, Lisbon. www.gatportugal.org

i-Base has run treatment workshops with the following organisations. African Community Involvement Association (ACIA) African HIV Policy Network (AHPN) Aventis/Dermik training, Longfield Barnardos Project, African Support Group, Leeds Bloomsbury Patients Network Body and Soul, London Brent and Harrow PCT Brighton …

CD4 count – number of CD4 cells in a cubic millimetre of blood. CD4 counts results are given as a number that can be anywhere from 0 to over 2000 (rarely). The range for an HIV-negative person is usually quoted …

DAAS (direct acting antivirals) are new hepatitis C drugs that work directly against the hepatitis C virus (HCV). HIV is now easy to treat and HCV can be cured (with DAAs). The meds work very well with low risk of side …

As i-Base is an HIV project, these resources are about HIV and hepatitis C coinfection. Although it can be a difficult to have both infections, the good news is that there is effective treatment for both HIV and hepatitis C …

The evidence for U=U: why negligible risk is zero risk

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