Welcome to a multilingual website on HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C for people in Australia.

HIV 01 - An Introduction
1.1 Did you know?
1.2 How can I avoid becoming infected with HIV?
1.3 What's the difference between HIV and AIDS?
1.4 How can I find out if I have HIV?
1.5 How is HIV transmitted?
1.6 How do I know if someone has HIV/AIDS?
1.7 Traveling overseas
1.8 Using interpreters

HIV 02 - HIV, STI and Travel
2.1 What's your risk of HIV in your home country?
2.2 So what is HIV/AIDS?
2.3 How HIV is transmitted?
2.4 What about other sexually transmissible infections (STI)?
2.5 Tattoos and Piercing
2.6 Injecting Drugs

HIV 03 - Newly Diagnosed
3.1 What Happens Now?
3.2 Confidentiality and discrimination
3.3 Who do I tell?
3.4 What happens if I'm not an Australian resident?

HIV 04 - The Effects of HIV/AIDS
4.1 What's the difference between HIV and AIDS?
4.2 How is HIV transmitted?
4.3 How does HIV affect the immune system?

HIV 05 - Health and Treatments
5.1 Monitoring your health
5.2 Treatment
5.3 Complementary therapies

HIV 06 - Living with HIV/AIDS
6.1 What do I need to do at home?
6.2 Can I have sex?
6.3 Pregnancy & children
6.4 What happens if I injects drugs?
6.5 Can I travel overseas?

HIV 07 - The Health System In Australia
7.1 Introduction
7.2 General practitioners
7.3 Sexual health centres
7.4 Hospitals
7.5 Other HIV/AIDS services
7.6 Counsellors, social workers, psychologists
7.7 How to access the services you need
7.8 Interpreters

HIV 08 - Some Common Terms

HIV 09

 


HCV 01 - Hepatitis C is Everybody’s Business
1.1 What is hepatitis C?
1.2 Is hep C the same as hep A and hep B?
1.3 How do you get hep C?
1.4 What does hep C do?
1.5 Testing for hep C
1.6 Hep C and personal health
1.7 Treatment for hep C
1.8 Preventing hep C in the community
1.9 Support and understanding
1.10 For more information

HCV 02 - Health and Treatments
2.1 What is hepatitis C?
2.2 Aim of treatment
2.3 What does treatment involve?
2.4 How do I take the medication?
2.5 Traveling with medication
2.6 Safe disposal
2.7 What are the risks of treatment?
2.8 Pregnancy
2.9 Alcohol / Drugs
2.10 Side effects of treatment
2.11 Other treatments

HCV 03 - Living with hepatitis C
3.1 Other health care workers
3.2 Accessing services
3.3 Discrimination and confidentiality
3.4 Some common terms







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