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HIV Treatment: Everything You Need to Know

Dennis Boyd | March 6, 2020

HIV Treatment: Everything You Need to Know

 

Maybe you’ve just learned you are living with HIV and have questions about starting the treatment process. Or maybe you’ve been living with HIV for years but haven’t really updated yourself as to the latest advances in treatment. Well, you’re in luck! If you need information about HIV treatment, you’ve come to the right page.

In the past four decades of addressing HIV in this country, a lot of scientific and social advances have occurred that shed light on all the aspects of how you can best treat yourself—in mind as well as body—if you are living with HIV.

Gone are the days of the oversimplified cliché, “HIV is not the death sentence it used to be.” While this is certainly true, living with HIV today embraces what it means not only to survive, but to thrive when you are living with HIV.

Here’s what you need to know about how to “treat” HIV as the virus it is, but also how to “treat” yourself as the whole person you are.