MyHiv

Published: 07 February 2012

New online service

MyHIV is an innovative new online service designed to transform the way people manage HIV as a long term condition.  People with HIV have been fundamental in shaping the website and it is tailored to individuals’ specific needs.

In January this year, the website celebrated its first birthday and is now the UK’s largest online community for HIV, with over 3,000 people now registered and using the website.

The site offers a range of online tools and services to enable people living with HIV to monitor their health and actively manage their HIV. Some of the benefits of the website include:

• information and advice on many aspects of life with HIV, from diagnosis to telling people, the science of HIV, staying healthy, sex relationships and legal rights
• an online community forum where people with HIV can gain confidential support, advice and information 24 hours a day
• a local HIV service and clinic finder
• a section to allow people to store CD4 counts and viral load and display them in a graph, so they can monitor them over ti
•  tools to better understand HIV medication, with notes on common side effects and usage
• email or text reminders to help people take their HIV medication in time and remember upcoming healthcare appointments
• online counselling and support.

For further information please go to www.myhiv.org.uk