Finding Out: What You Need to Know : a Guide for Inmates Living with HIV

ISBN-10: 0662210816
ISBN-13: 9780662210818
Series: Finding Out
Pages: 165
Language: English
Published: 1994
Publisher: Correctional Service Canada
Authors: Correctional Service Canada, Andréa Riesch Toepell

Description

This book is intended to inform federal inmates who are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or are living with AIDS. It provides information and advice related to feelings and emotions, disclosure of the condition, how HIV and AIDS affect the body, doctors and treatment, living on the outside, food and nutrition, financial help, disability and insurance, legal help, and planning ahead (powers of attorney, wills, funerals). The final section contains a directory of telephone numbers of AIDS/HIV organizations that can provide help.