Other Resources

Living your life with a chronic condition or caring for someone with an on-going illness is perhaps one of life’s greatest challenges, demanding significant perseverance and genuine support. Treatment Diaries is a social network for people just like you who are suffering from, living with or caring for someone with a chronic illness.

Understanding your Labs

The blood chemistry test—also known as a chem screen

Simply put, a viral load test measures the amount of HIV in your blood.

What are CD4 Cells?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

http://www.cdc.gov

National Institutes of Health

An agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research.

http://www.nih.gov

Virginia Department of Health
State agency focusing on community health by emphasizing health promotion, disease prevention, emergency preparedness, and environmental protection.
http://www.vdh.state.va.us/

Avert
An international AIDS charity. Information on HIV/AIDS.
http://www.avert.org/

The Body
This website provides extensive information about HIV/AIDS basics & prevention. More than 550 topics are presented. Most are links to other sources, such as federal and state HIV agencies, newspapers, medical journals, etc.
http://www.thebody.com/index.shtml

POZ Magazine

 http://www.poz.com  

AIDSMEDS.com
An award winning website put together by an HIV+ individual. Site has sections for general information, drugs, nutrition (and food/drug interactions), clinical trials, forums, reading list, blog, etc.
http://www.aidsmeds.com/

My Med Schedule
My Med Schedule is a great medication reminder. Your personal medication chart clearly shows the time you should take each medicine or supplement, and how much to take. There are even images of your pills so there is no confusion.
www.mymedschedule.com 

Virginia Organizations Responding to AIDS

VORA is a collaboration of agencies, organizations, groups, and individuals who work together to tell anyone who will listen about HIV and AIDS in Virginia.Funding to support VORA comes from donations, grants, corporate contributions, and membership dues. Without this support, there would be no VORA!

www.voraonline.org