A significant number of people with HIV suffer from stress, anxiety or depression. Living with these problems adds to the burden of illness that we all have to bear, reduces quality of life and can have a serious impact on treatments adherence, so it is worthwhile doing what you can to respond to stress and depression if it affects you.

Frocks and footy. Nature and yoga. Cabin fever and isolation. Tobin’s sea change has at times been a tricky mix. Tobin had been living in Sydney for years when he decided on his sea change. As Tobin puts it, ‘Things weren’t going well. Deep down I wanted to make changes.’ ‘HIV was one of the reasons for shifting, but there were other factors – a relationship breakdown, work not coming in, and the stresses of living in a city.

Many HIV-positive people struggle with depression. Graham Douglas-Meyer shares his strategies for dealing with this most common form of mental illness.

The 16th International AIDS Conference highlighted numerous important and promising developments in HIV treatments. JOHN DAYE reports.

Feeling blue from time to time is normal, but when the blues won't go away there is much that can be done to deal with depression. DAVID MENADUE investigates.

p(standfirst). What are the complementary and alternative therapy options for treating depression?