Education, research, and new treatments have led to longer life expectancies for those with HIV, more ways to prevent infections, and more approaches to delaying disease progression. Taking charge of your health is vitally important.

More and more, as AIDS patients live longer with the new anti-HIV drugs, fatigue is becoming a key quality-of-life issue. Treating the anemia that may be behind it is very important.

Find out more by following these links to sections on antiretroviral therapy, drugs and their side effects, and blood tests and what they mean.