This text offers health care providers and clinicians information needed to effectively care for HIV infected individuals. Included is coverage of new antiretroviral drugs and tests for quantitating viral load, which have the potential to slow the progression of the HIV virus and prolong survival.
Part 1 The virus - its transmission and infection: current trends in the
epidemiology of HIV/AIDS; molecular insights into HIV-1 infection; natural
history and immunopathogenesis of HIV-1 disease; quantitation of HIV viral
load - a tool for clinical practice?; limiting the risks of health care
workers. Part 2 Management of HIV infections and their complications: primary
HIV infection; initiating routine care for the HIV-infected adult;
antiretroviral therapy; drug interactions and toxicities in patients with
AIDS; alternative therapies for HIV; dermatologic care in the AIDS patient;
oral complications of HIV infection; gastrointestinal tract manifestations of
AIDS; management of neurologic complications of HIV-1 infection and AIDS; HIV
disease - psychosocial issues and psychiatric complications; haematologic
complications of HIV infection; cardiovascular complications of HIV
infection; endocrinologic manifestations of HIV infection; renal
complications of HIV infection. Part 3 Specific infections and malignant
conditions: "pneumocystis carinii" pneumonia; disseminated "mycobacterium
avium" complex and other bacterial infections; tuberculosis in persons with
human immunodeficiency virus infection; cryptococcosis and other fungal
infections (histoplasmosis, coccidiomycosis); AIDS-associated toxoplasmosis;
bacillary angiomatosis and other unusual infections in HIV-infected
individuals; management of herpesvirus infections (CMV,HSV, VZV); management
of syphilis in HIV-infected persons; malignancies associated with AIDS. Part
4 Special aspects of AIDS: the chest film in AIDS; management of pregnant
women with HIV infection; paediatric AIDS - perinatal transmission and early
diagnosis; gender-specific issues in HIV disease; HIV nursing care.
