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Providing HIV care in mental health services

This article looks at one particular mental health programme's approach to integrating HIV into mental health services.

Published
26 November 2009
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Mental and emotional health
Mental health and HIV: a clinical review

This issue (part one of two) covers the wide range of mental health problems people living with HIV experience.

Published
17 September 2009
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
How HIV works
HIV treatment may induce protective immunity in brain, monkey study finds

A study of monkeys infected with HIV's simian equivalent and then given antiretrovirals (ARVs) suggests that the drugs may act indirectly by enabling a state

Published
14 September 2009
By
Gus Cairns
Mental and emotional health
Walking back to happiness

People with HIV, as endless studies attest, have higher rates of depression, addictions and other mental health problems than the general population. But even if we aren’t depressed,

Published
01 September 2009
From
HIV treatment update
Transmission and prevention
Gay men sexually abused in childhood more likely to have risky sex and get HIV

An experience of sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence is associated with an increased risk of gay men becoming HIV-positive in adult life, American researchers

Published
01 July 2009
By
Michael Carter
Exercise
Why fit is happy: exercise, mood and HIV

The team here at NAM will be taking part in a couple of fundraising events this summer involving exercise. At the less demanding end of the scale,

Published
01 May 2009
From
HIV treatment update
Mental and emotional health
Top four needs of people with HIV in the UK all related to mental health

Anxiety and depression, self-esteem, sleep and sex are the areas of life that pose problems to the greatest number of people living with HIV in

Published
14 April 2009
By
Roger Pebody
Sex, sleep and self-esteem: what we need most

Anxiety and depression, bad sleep, bad sex, and low self-esteem: these are our biggest bugbears as people living with HIV. More than two-thirds of the 1777 people with

Published
01 April 2009
From
HIV treatment update
Transmission and prevention
Association between depression and sexually transmitted infections

Depression is common in people with sexually transmitted infections, Canadian researchers report in the December edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections. The researchers suggest that programmes

Published
18 December 2008
By
Michael Carter
Mental and emotional health
Nearly one in three UK HIV patients has considered suicide in the previous week (revised)

A UK study of HIV patients at four clinics in London and one in Brighton has found that 31% reported having had suicidal thoughts over

Published
29 September 2008
By
Gus Cairns
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