08: Peer Support

Cool features of the Positive Peers app: Part 1

by Positive Peers

Positive Peers is a tailored smartphone app with a private, stigma-free, supportive community to support young people living with HIV. The app is secure and accessible only through a confidential registration process. For now, only […]
01: Blogs With Audio Content, 02: Everyday Advice for Living with HIV, 11: Healthy Habits

What are the benefits of green tea?

by Ann K. Avery, MD

By: Ann K. Avery, MD, Infectious Disease Physician at MetroHealth Medical Center What’s so great about drinking green tea when you’re living with HIV? (…besides the fact that it rhymes.) Green tea can be good […]
01: Blogs With Audio Content, 06: Talking to a Doctor

What people living with HIV need to know about Shigella

by Ann K. Avery, MD

By: Ann K. Avery, MD, Infectious Disease Physician at MetroHealth Medical Center Shigella is a nasty kind of bacteria that loves to infect your gut and give you a terrible case of diarrhea that lasts […]
00. Spanish, 02: Everyday Advice for Living with HIV, 06: Talking to a Doctor, 11: Healthy Habits

Lo que tienes que saber sobre la enfermedad de mano-pie-boca

by Por la Dra. Ann Avery

Por: Ann Avery, médica de enfermedades infecciosas de Metrohealth Medical Center. Ver todos los blogs en español > La enfermedad de mano-pie-boca, o EMPB, suele afectar a bebés y niños pequeños. Es un virus que […]
02: Everyday Advice for Living with HIV, 06: Talking to a Doctor, 11: Healthy Habits

What you need to know about hand-foot-and-mouth disease

by Ann K. Avery, MD

By: Ann K. Avery, MD, Infectious Disease Physician at MetroHealth Medical Center Hand-foot-and-mouth disease, or HFMD, usually happens to babies and little children. It’s a virus that gets in their hands, spit, snot, and poop, […]
02: Everyday Advice for Living with HIV, 06: Talking to a Doctor, 10: Side Effects & Complications

Living with HIV and without an appetite: what do I do?

by Ann K. Avery, MD

By: Ann K. Avery, MD, Infectious Disease Physician at MetroHealth Medical Center In the past, many people living with HIV used to lose their appetite because the infection ruined their appetite. Now, some modern HIV […]
00. Spanish, 02: Everyday Advice for Living with HIV, 06: Talking to a Doctor, 10: Side Effects & Complications

Vivir con VIH y sin apetito: ¿qué hago?

by Por la Dra. Ann Avery

Por: Ann Avery, médica de enfermedades infecciosas de Metrohealth Medical Center. Ver todos los blogs en español > En el pasado, muchas personas que vivían con el VIH solían perder el apetito porque la infección […]
10: Side Effects & Complications

Dealing with diarrhea: Don’t let the runs get you down 

by Ann K. Avery, MD

By: Ann K. Avery, MD, Infectious Disease Physician at MetroHealth Medical Center There’s nothing worse than when you’re just trying to get through your day, but your insides won’t cooperate. You know that queasy feeling […]
02: Everyday Advice for Living with HIV, 06: Talking to a Doctor, 11: Healthy Habits

What you should know about diabetes and HIV

by Ann K. Avery, MD

By: Ann K. Avery, MD, Infectious Disease Physician at MetroHealth Medical Center Here at Positive Peers, we’re all about you living healthy and happy. Today we’re going to dive into a common health condition that […]
02: Everyday Advice for Living with HIV, 04: Newly Diagnosed / HIV 101, 10: Side Effects & Complications, 11: Healthy Habits, 17: Young and Positive

Taking your meds every day

by Ann K. Avery, MD

By: Ann K. Avery, MD, Infectious Disease Physician at MetroHealth Medical Center Taking your meds every day It can be hard to create a new habit — like taking your meds every day. Stick with it […]