This booklet provides information on mental health for people with HIV. Problems with mental health can affect anybody, but it seems that HIV-positive people are more likely to experience a range of mental health problems. Treatment for depression and many other mental health problems work well in HIV-positive people.

A summary is provided on page xx and a glossary on page xx.

Acknowledgements

Written by Michael Carter.
Second edition 2007

NAM is grateful to the funders of this booklet series:

NHS London HIV Consortium, Department of Health, NHS South West London HIV & GUM Commissioning Consortium, Derek Butler Trust and Healthsure Charitable Trust.

Thanks for the assistance of:

• Dr Jose Catalan, Consultant psychiatrist, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
• Geoff Warburton, UKCP registered psychotherapist
• Susan Cole, UK Coalition of people Living with HIV and AIDS, London

Awards

The first edition of this booklet was highly commended in the British Medical Association’s Patient Information Book Awards, 2005.