Guides for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Miscellaneous Publications for People Living with HIV /AIDS

• Palliative Care
• Managing Your Health
• Psychosocial Care
• Rehabilitation Services

Copies of these publications can be ordered from the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange at http://orders.catie.ca/index.php .

Palliative Care

This guide is designed for caregiving professionals in all disciplines who seek to enhance their skills at providing palliative care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Palliative care for people living with HIV/AIDS is the unification of science, compassion and spirituality. The guide endeavours to reflect this vital union. Contrary to what many believe, there is no specific time for palliative care. Throughout its trajectory, advanced HIV disease presents continuing challenges for all, but experience proves that those knowledgeable in palliative care can relieve the intense, broad suffering of persons living with the disease. The result can be a unique experience respectful of each individual and healing to those he/she loves. This document endeavours to strengthen the skills that makes this experience possible.

Managing your health [4th ed.]

The 4^th edition of Managing your health: a guide for people living with HIV provides up-to-date, reliable, plain language information delivered from the perspectives of people living with this disease. Since it was first published in 1996, it has become a "must read" for people living with HIV or AIDS, and those seeking accurate and comprehensive information.
Both the content and the format of the new edition have been updated and revised to include chapter summaries and key messages, and fold-out cover features such as a glossary. These new features are intended to help orient readers so that they can navigate easily through the guide.

This edition is designed as a workbook in which people with HIV can record their personal health information and notes.

Sponsoring Organization:
Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange

Psychosocial Care

This guide attempts to capture social work practice wisdom and to demonstrate how best practices can be used to meet the psychosocial needs of individuals, partners, families and communities affected by HIV. It also tries to provide the information and support that social workers and others need to respond effectively to people living with HIV. Anyone who works with people living with HIV will, at some time, feel personally and professionally challenged. The ethical issues can be daunting. The guide discusses professional and practical issues associated with providing psychosocial care and describes interventions that social workers have found effective. It covers the social worker's role in providing psychosocial care for people who are infected, and in working with society to support those living with HIV and to prevent new infections. For social workers who have worked for years in HIV and those new to the field, the guide will affirm their practice, answer some of their questions, and provide valuable advice and support.

Sponsoring organization:
Canadian Association of Social Workers

Rehabilitation Services

This document was developed in response to the rapidly growing role of rehabilitation professionals in HIV care. Although people living with HIV have always needed rehabilitation services, the proportion of rehabilitation providers with HIV patients has grown from a few per cent a decade ago to nearly 25 per cent today. The guide is the product of extensive consultations among people living with HIV and a wide cross-section of rehabilitation and health care providers, enabling the authors to bring together in one guide both conventional rehabilitation interventions and patient-centred care approaches. This document is targeted primarily at rehabilitation professionals. Secondary target audiences include other HIV caregivers and people living with HIV and their communities.