Booklet
Key points
- Women with HIV are living long and healthy lives. An HIV diagnosis shouldn’t stop you from living the life you desire.
- It is important to remember you can have a family while living with HIV and can have fulfilling relationships.
- There are particular health and emotional aspects that you may need to consider as a woman living with HIV.
- Getting support from other women living with HIV and your HIV clinic can help you to look after yourself.
This booklet is for women living with HIV. It is important to know that you can live a long healthy life. You can enjoy sex, have fulfilling relationships and have a baby without passing on HIV.
This booklet is specifically for cisgender women living in the UK. A cisgender woman is someone whose gender (woman) matches the female biological sex she was given at birth.
We recommend you discuss the information in this booklet with your HIV clinic.