introducing MyLife+
MyLife+ empowers people with HIV to take control of their
health and wellbeing, and manage their overall quality of life.
Happy
Take control over your wellbeing with a quality of life tracker and flexible journal for moods and symptoms.
Healthy
Be empowered and take control of your health with easy to use trackers and tools for blood results and medication.
Connected
Make conversations easier using sharable health progress reports, improve your health literacy, and stay connected.
Privacy
Your data is stored on your device controlled with an optional login.
taking control
Staying healthy is important. It allows you to focus on spending time with the people you love and doing the things you enjoy. LiVLife+ provides you with all your health information, in your hands. Putting you in control of your health and helping you to have better conversations with your doctors and nurses.
simple tools
Create customisable health progress reports of your progress reports of your trackers or journal that can be shared or stored. Quickly add medication or an event.
my medication
List all your medications and capture important information such as prescriber and script details, dates, and treatment notes.
discretion and privacy
Set up an optional passcode to protect your data ensuring privacy while switching between screens with a block out. You can also customise the text for optional push notifications to keep messages discreet.
Health Trackers
staying healthy
Be empowered and take control of your health and wellbeing with easy to use trackers and tools for blood results, medication, and quality of life tracking.
quality of life
Identify where your quality of life is not ideal across happiness, health, and connectedness, and identify actions you can take to make improvements.
blood results
Store your past, current and future viral load and CD4 count for easy reference. Blood results can be tracked visually over time, allowing you to check and compare results for any period and visualise any fluctuations.
my pils
Set up medication and reminders to easily track your pill taking, or add once-off items such as over the counter pills as a record.
Journal
taking note
Capture all elements of your day to day life with moods, associated events, symptoms, and general notes. Flag particular entries to help raise topics at your next appointment with your doctor or nurse.
moods
Keep track of your moods by simply dragging the button around to a mood that best represents how you feel today.
events
Add an event that might explain your mood today. You can select from your own customised list of existing events, and add multiple events if you choose.
symptoms
Keep note of any issues concerning you and record the severity from mild to severe. Keep an accurate record that you can share with your doctors and nurses.
Planner & Information
keeping connected
Keep track and stay in control of your health. Come prepared to your appointments with a progress report - enabling you to have better conversations with your nurses and doctors.
health progress reports
Create sharable reports that show how your health and wellbeing has been progressing. You decide what trackers or information you would like to include, and for what period of time.
planner
Maintain and manage your healthcare contact list and plan your health related schedule. Set optional and customisable reminders with peace of mind.
information by napwha
Through ongoing consultation, NAPWHA continues to play a key role in MyLife+, providing educational material for the app and contributing to the apps functionality and content.
our partners
The MyLife+ app was created from ideation to delivery by
ViiV Healthcare for the +community, with the +community
ViiV Healthcare is the only company 100% focused on HIV. This underpins our commitment to making meaningful contributions to people with or affected by HIV, now and into the future. HIV has become a chronic treatable condition, yet challenges still remain. It is essential to improve the experience of diagnosis, testing rates, treatment, care and education for people with HIV. ViiV Healthcare delivers innovative treatments and works in partnership with the HIV community.
NAPWHA is a collaborative partner of MyLife+ and a valuable contributor to the app's content, representing the +community. NAPWHA's insight into the needs, desires and preferences of the +community have been central to every stage of the app's development and delivery, to ensure MyLife+ encompasses the tools, resources and support necessary to successfully meet the broad needs of the +community in Australia. Through ongoing consultation, NAPWHA continues to play a key role in MyLife+, providing educational material for the app and contributing to the apps functionality and content.
Information by napwha
Stay informed, connected and inspired with insights, information and advice
from the +community, for the +community. Download the app to read more.
Coping with Grief
Dating and Disclosure
End of Discusion
Holding Back The Years
How to Live to 100
Living in the Present
Mindfullness
Packet in
Pregnacy and HIV
The A to Z of HIV – for the Newly Diagnosed
The Undetectables
Tips: For a Happy and Healthy Mind
Tips: for tackling stigma
Tips: On Disclosure
Coping with Grief
Dating and Disclosure
End of Discusion
Holding Back The Years
How to Live to 100
Living in the Present
Mindfullness
Packet in
Pregnacy and HIV
The A to Z of HIV – for the Newly Diagnosed
The Undetectables
Tips: For a Happy and Healthy Mind
Tips: for tackling stigma
Tips: On Disclosure
coping with grief
It is said that the eminent psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross learnt a lot about grief from the cleaner in the hospice where she worked. She had noticed that some of the young men in her care would discuss their impending death with the cleaner but not with her. Wondering why, she asked the cleaner one day…
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dating and disclosure
"It's liberating when you tell someone you're HIV-positive." 7 people with HIV share their personal experiences with disclosing their HIV positive status with a new partner…
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end of discussion
Opinion has long been divided over when to start treatment for HIV. On the one side: as soon as possible; on the other: best to wait. Now there can be no doubt. The START study is conclusive….
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holding back the years
In the early years, ageing with HIV was a rare occurrence; most people lived briefly with HIV before dying from AIDS. These days, effective treatment means people with HIV can expect to live a normal lifespan. But while modern medication works miracles, ageing with HIV brings new complications.
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how to live to 100
Living with HIV can be stressful for many of us; for both physical and psychological reasons, but it doesn't mean we can't lead a long and healthy life. From nurturing your gut to enjoying life's simple pleasures, here's 6 tips on how you can take care of yourself and live to 100….
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living in the present
When I was in my early 20s, I suffered crippling anxiety and panic attacks. Although meditation was already part of my life, the simple practice of coming to my senses proved to be an invaluable tool for managing tumultuous feelings.
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mindfulness
Your mind can be a pretty strange place at the best of times. At worst, it can feel like a prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer. Meditation is about learning how to tame our crazy wild horse of a brain. It's about learning how to ride the horse and how to rein it in…
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packet in
A joint US/European study has found the life-expectancy of a 35-year-old man living with HIV is reduced by eight years due to smoking. Eight years. And the benefits of not smoking were equally strikingly clear. So the take-home message to positive smokers? Quit! Now! If only it was that easy.
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pregnancy and hiv
Knowing your HIV status before you have a baby is a distinct advantage. This way you'll receive specialist advice about conceiving, treatments and transmission risks. With the right information and assistance to ensure a safe outcome, having a baby is something that is definitely possible for women living with HIV.
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the a to z of hiv – for the newly diagnosed
For many people, being diagnosed with HIV can come as a major shock. The newly diagnosed can find themselves in a state of uncertainty, faced with a lot of questions but also a lot of doubt on where to turn to for information and support. Here's the A to Z of HIV for the newly diagnosed - a comprehensive list of what you need to know about HIV, your general health and where you can access support.
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the undetectables
If 'The Undetectables' sound like a bunch of superheroes, working silently to change the world for the better, then maybe - when put in the context of a desire to reduce HIV transmissions - that’s kind of what they are. Becoming undetectable means the drugs have stopped the virus replicating. Apart from the obvious advantages to a positive person's own health, being undetectable greatly reduces the risk of onward transmission of HIV.
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tips: for a happy and healthy mind
Taking care of your health is more than just looking after your physical health - it's also about adopting behaviours and practices that support a happy and healthy mind. Here's a few ideas to help you clear the mind and give your brain a healthy boost.
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tips: for tackling stigma
Stamping out HIV stigma is easier said than done. Here's some tips to help you call people out on discriminatory behaviours, and challenge attitudes and beliefs that perpetuate HIV stigma….
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tips: on disclosure
Disclosing your HIV status can be daunting, but many people can find comfort in opening up. Here's 8 tips to support you with telling people you're HIV positive...
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Download MyLife+
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