HIV

Written for medical professionals (and fully updated for this edition), this book offers tools to use in counseling patients about risks, testing, and the methods by which transmission can be avoided as well as the latest treatments for the effects of HIV. Chapters cover transmission, pathogenesis, natural history, prevention, primary care, antiretroviral therapy and post-exposure prophylaxis, resistance testing, therapeutic drug monitoring, long-term treatment implications, prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections and cancers, diagnostic approaches to common clinical syndromes, global epidemiology, and barriers to providing care in resource-limited settings. Special populations covered include women, men who have sex with men, African Americans, transgender persons and injection-drug users. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)