Fifth edition. — BMJ Publishing Group, 2001. — 126 p. Contribution. Development of the epidemic. The virus and the tests. Immunology of AIDS. Natural history and management of early HIV infection. Tumours in HIV. AIDS and the lung. Gastrointestinal and hepatic manifestations. Neurological manifestations. Treatment of infections and antiviral therapy. HIV infection and AIDS in...
Bentham Books, 2010. — 159 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60805-580-7. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection represents one of the biggest challenges of current years. However, scientists and physicians still do not have an efficient therapy for preventing or eradicating the virus. The selection of drug-resistant strains as well as side-effects, represent common problems encountered...
Taylor & Francis, 2006. — 511 p. In an effort to go beyond immune-based therapies, researchers are now considering the implications of apoptosis dysregulation during HIV-induced immunodeficiency. This work provides the first comprehensive compendium of the progress made in understanding the process of cell death related to HIV and the potential breakthroughs in treatment that...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2009. — 169 p. The introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has significantly improved the clinical outcome of HIV disease with increased survival rates. However, the introduction of HAART has generated a contrast in the cardiac manifestations of AIDS. In developed countries, we observed an approximate 30% reduction in the prevalence...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 407 p. The book is the most complete source of medical, emotional, social, and practical advice available for those infected with HIV and their loved ones. Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic, the guide provides essential information for making decisions about treatment and testing in a world transformed by new research and...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2004. — 166 p. When infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), this illness can sometimes develop into acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This title describes the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
Chelsea House Publishers, 2004. — 166 p. When infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), this illness can sometimes develop into acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This title describes the symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of HIV/AIDS.
Jessica Kingsley, 2003. — 120 p. Teaching and Learning about HIV highlights the role that schools can play in providing education and support about HIV. It provides teachers and others working in schools with a rationale for teaching about HIV, including: legislation and guidance; guidance on ensuring effective policy development; background information about HIV and AIDS; and...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 240 p. Drawing attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988, before AIDS became either a widly recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing, this predominately critical literary study is informed by gender studies and psychoanalytic criticism in its readings of individual texts. Interwoven with...
InterVarsity Press, 2013. — 128 p. 2013 Midwest Publishing Awards Show Honorable Mention! Where did AIDS come from? What are the symptoms? Is the rate of AIDS going up or down in developed countries? What can one person do? In this Skeptic's Guide Dale Hanson Bourke sheds light on key places, terms, history and current issues surrounding HIV/AIDS. The crisis that became a...
Springer Publishing Company, 2007. — 408 p. A unique multi-media teaching kit for those instructing clients, staff, and students about HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS has rapidly emerged as one of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century. In the absence of a cure, prevention remains a crucial strategy for reducing its impact. It is critically important to understand not only...
Routledge, 1999. — 256 p. — (Social Aspects of AIDS). — ISBN10: 1857281713; ISBN13: 978-1857281712. Mental Health and HIV Infection provides an up-to-date overview of the mental health consequences and of the kind of psychological, psychopharmaological and community forms of intervention available to deal with the adverse psychological effects of HIV infection. Divided into...
Springer New York, 2010. — 754 p. It has now been 25 years since the apocryphal report in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report dated June 5, 1981 entitled, “Pneumocystis Pneumonia - Los Angeles”, which announced what was to become HIV/AIDS. HIV has now affected virtually all countries that have looked for it and has had a devastating impact on the public health and...
Springer, 2016. — 330 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-49702-0. A Clinical Guide to Pediatric HIV: Bridging the Gaps Between Research and Practice examines the impact of HIV on children, adolescents, and their families. Written by experts in the field, this book covers issues of concern to clinicians and researchers working in the area of pediatric HIV. Beginning with an overview of...
Wiley, 2002. — 456 p. The book a highly readable, detailed overview of the state of the art in modern HIV research at the cellular level. This volume brings together renowned experts who have provided concise, synthetic treatments of the biology of HIV infection. It presents these descriptions and analyses with particular attention to the techniques of flow cytometry that have...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 224 p. The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over twenty years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral...
Manualul educatorului. Bucuresti: Speed Promotion, 2006 - 119 p. Sumar Cuvânt înainte Capitolul Ghid de educatie pentru prevenirea infectiei cu HIV, a altor infectii cu transmitere sexuală şi a consumului de droguri Aspecte psihologice în abordarea infectiei cu HIV/SIDA Comunicarea în educatia pentru sănătate Modele de promovare a sănătătii şi de prevenire a îmbolnăvirilor...
Dundurn, 2004. — 40 p. In Africa, every minute of every day, five people die of AIDS and nine more are newly infected. In 2003, a group of like-minded, energetic people got together to actively motivate and inspire their community to help ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa. This manual was produced by the residents of York Region, Ontario, who have come together to raise...
Ashgate, 2013. — 268 p. There is now a vast literature on HIV and AIDS but much of it is based on traditional biomedical or epidemiological approaches. Hence it tells us very little about the experiences of the millions of people whose living and dying constitute the reality of this devastating pandemic. Doyal brings together findings from a wide range of empirical studies...
World Bank Publications, 2012. — 135 p. Authors: Arin Dutta, Andrea Wirtz, Anderson Stanciole, Robert Oelrichs, Iris Semini, Stefan Baral, Carel Pretorius, Caroline Haworth, Shannon Hader, Chris Beyrer, and Farley Cleghorn This report conducts a review of recent systematic reviews of the four key interventions initial group of countries that represented a diverse selection...
Springer, 2004. — 316 p. This volume focuses on the ways in which HIV/AIDS can affect older adults. The chapters in this book discuss the variety of HIV/AIDS problems that we face at the individual, family, and community levels. Topics examined include demographics and epidemiological aspects of HIV disease with this population; prevention of HIV disease; issues impacting...
CRC Press, 2002. — 270 p. Micronutrient deficiencies are widespread in developing countries, and even in developed countries among the underprivileged. Also, micronutrient deficiencies develop during early asymptomatic HIV infection. Evidence suggests that improved micronutrient intake may reduce HIV transmission and progression, as well as the morbidity from common and...
Nova Science Pub Inc, 2013. — 158 p. — (Public Health in the 21st Century). — ISBN10: 1628084936; ISBN13: 978-1628084931. In 2013, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) will mark nearly ten years of success with an extraordinary year of achievements. None of this would have been possible without the vision and leadership of President Bush, President...
Springer, 2007. — 562 p. This comprehensive volume, written by experts in the field, is the first to address the biology of dendritic cells (DCs) in an integrated fashion, in the context of HIV infection and immunity. The book brings together the most recent information related to the biology of DCs and their role in the pathogenesis and immunity of HIV-1 infection. Recent...
3rd edition. — Bull, 2005. — 328 p. Based on the current care guidelines from the CDC and elsewhere, this book addresses the current emphasis on managing the side effects of HIV/AIDS such as lypodystrophy, redistribution of body fat, cardiac risks, and vulnerability to other ailments. Combining the latest medical advice with the ideas of hundreds of people living with HIV/AIDS,...
Glover R., Wiseman A., Emerald books 2012, 320 p. This book is on HIV/AIDS research and the impact of the disease on modern society and education activities. For professionals and a broad circle of readers.
ASM Press, 2009. — 538 p. A review of the full scope of research on the neurological and neurobehavioral implications of neuro-AIDS including the fields of microbiology and immunology. Considers the broad scope of effects of HIV/AIDS on the brain and peripheral nervous system (neuro-AIDS), both pre- and post-HAART era. Links basic pathology and pathophysiology research with...
Springer, 2016. — 245 p. This concise, clinically focused pocket guide offers a complete overview of HIV in the older patient and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of HIV within this subgroup. The easily accessible text offers infectious disease specialists and other health care professionals with an excellent quick reference...
2nd edition. — Pluto Press, 2003. — 200 p. "Deadlier than war, deadlier than tyranny, deadlier than even malaria, AIDS is silently tearing Africa apart," writes Guest in the preface to this riveting account of a continental plight the world has not sufficiently considered. Guest, a freelance writer on AIDS-related matters, refrains from discussing how adults battle with and die...
Shelton, Connecticut: People’s Medical Publishing House, 2011. — 1024 p. This book is a scientific treatise and social history of, arguably, the most significant event of the last thirty years. Not infrequently, it is hypothesized that what happens to our lives comes from forces beyond our control and our comprehension. This book defies this notion, as do all scientific...
Potomac Books, 2012. — 340 p. — ISBN10: 1597972940; ISBN13: 978-1597972949. Society was not prepared in 1981 for the appearance of a new infectious disease, but we have since learned that emerging and reemerging diseases will continue to challenge humanity. AIDS at 30 is the first history of HIV/AIDS written for a general audience that emphasizes the medical response to the...
Springer, 2007. — 282 p. The devastating effects of HIV/AIDS have propelled a multiplicity of activities at global, national and local level. This book is based on in-depth studies of the major global institutions in health, the role of pharmaceutical corporations, the functions of NGOs, and national responses to HIV/AIDS in two key case studies: Brazil and South Africa.
Vanderbilt University Press, 2010. — 320 p. For many women around the world, their greatest risk of HIV infection comes from having sex with the very person with whom they are supposed to have sex: their spouse. The Secret situates marital HIV risk within a broader exploration of marital and extramarital sexuality in five diverse settings: Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, Vietnam, and...
National Academic Press, 1995. — 352 p. During the early years of the AIDS epidemic, thousands of Americans became infected with HIV through the nation's blood supply. Because little reliable information existed at the time AIDS first began showing up in hemophiliacs and in others who had received transfusions, experts disagreed about whether blood and blood products could...
Jones and Bartlett, 1999. — 382 p. A handbook on caring for patients with HIV and AIDS at home, for patients, their families, and caregivers. Important information and concepts are often summarized with bulleted sentences or listed in tables. Gives information on evaluation and treatment of pain, home infusion therapy, rehab
Palgrave McMillan, 2005. — 283 p. AIDS in Asia provides a thorough introduction to the social and economic issues surrounding the AIDS epidemic in Asia including: * Geographic obstacles to health care * Gender inequality and human trafficking * Political turmoil and poor leadership * Asia's role in the sex and drug trade * Economic conditions and exploitation At the crucial...
National Academies Press, 2011. — 228 p. — ISBN10: 0309160189; ISBN13: 978-0309160186. HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections. The Institute of Medicine recommends that the United States and African nations move toward a strategy of shared...
JHU Press 2015. — 168 p. The availability of combination antiretroviral therapy has changed the lives of millions of people living with HIV (PLWH), for whom a once fatal infection can now be a manageable chronic disease. Yet only 30 percent of PLWH in the United States are virally suppressed, and significant gaps in access to care persist. While programs to boost linkage to and...
Wiley, 2009. — 322 p. Providing the latest information on preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of tuberculosis and AIDS, this is the only book to place a major emphasis on the increasing coexistence of these two life-threatening diseases in individuals. Edited by outstanding scientists in the field, this ready reference is divided into three main sections covering...
Nova Biomedical Books, 2008. — 344 p. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a set of symptoms and infections resulting from the damage to the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to...
Avalon Publishing, 1997. — 288 p. Educator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV. Whether black, Latina, poor, or middle class, the women in these groups share the common bond of living with HIV/AIDS, and they describe how it affects their lives in terms full of practical reality and moving poignancy, as...
3rd Edition. — ASM Press, 2007. — 680 p. A state-of-the-art review of the current research. Explains the history of the disease, and examines how scientists, clinicians, and public health workers have responded to the challenges presented by HIV/AIDS in the 25 years since its recognition. Explores potential approaches for therapy, including a vaccine for the prevention of HIV...
Presse de l'Université du Québec, 2004. — 252 p. La mise au point des nouveaux traitements contre le VIH/sida a profondément modifié les stratégies de lutte et transformé les représentations de l'épidémie et le rapport à la maladie. Pour certains, ils ont contribué à une amélioration de la santé, mais ils ont eu aussi des répercussions médicales, sociales et psychologiques qui...
Springer Science & Business Media, 2014. — 902 p. This book provides a comprehensive overview of modern methodology, diagnostic methods and techniques of HIV/AIDS imaging. It starts with a general review of HIV/AIDS imaging and evidence based medicine (EBM). In the following chapters, authors introduce 13 of most common types of AIDS/HIV-associated diseases separately....
Springer, 2016. — 497 p. — (Cross-Cultural Research in Health, Illness and Well-Being). — ISBN: 3319299344. This book focuses on the issues encountered by chidren and young people who are living with HIV/AIDS. It examines their lived experiences associated with HIV/AIDS, and studies groups of children and youngsters from around the globe. Connecting empirical information with...
Tsinghua University Press and Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015. — 319 p. — ISBN: 311035392X. This Atlas of AIDS Co-infection illustrates imaging features and clinical outcomes of AIDS related diseases. Learning variety of different imaging will enrich the radiologists experience and knowledge about AIDS-related diseases, and also help clinicians making timely diagnosis and...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2013. — 115 p. The book focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment strategies in resource-poor settings. Contributors include HIV/AIDS researchers and public health administrators from the US, Africa, China, and Thailand. Several chapters, written by local health officials, take a close look at AIDS prevention and treatment in China at the...
CRC Press, 2001. — 315 p. This book presents a complete global examination of the complications, diagnoses, and management of HIV infections. This is essential for the HIV specialist and for those involved in HIV care, this book provides: information on the constantly changing and expanding drug therapies and treatment strategies for HIV the latest developments and frequently...
Springer, 2018. — 443 p. This ambitious book provides a comprehensive history of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), using it as a unique lens to trace the global response to the AIDS pandemic. The authors describe how WHO came initially to assume leadership of the global response, relate the strategies and approaches WHO employed over the years,...
National Academies Press, 2012. — 352 p. The number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the United States is growing each year largely due both to advances in treatment that allow HIV-infected individuals to live longer and healthier lives and due to a steady number of new HIV infections each year. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that...
Bentham Science, 2016. — 165 p. Advances in HIV Treatment: HIV Enzyme Inhibitors and Antiretroviral Therapy presents comprehensive and updated information on drug therapies used to treat and manage HIV infection in human patients. The volume is organized in to chapters detailing respective classes of HIV Drugs including HIV entry inhibitors, reverse transcriptase inhibitors...
3rd edition. — Handbooks in Health Care, 2009. — 268 p. This compact, authoritative handbook examines the many infections that can attack the immunocompromised patient with HIV/AIDS, focusing on the bacterial, viral, and fungal infections that are common in these patients and the drug regimens that have been proven to be the most effective in the treatment of HIV and AIDS.
Springer, 2019. — 226 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-10450-4 This book provides the most current overview of the evaluation and management of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV/AIDS. The text assesses the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease in HIV/AIDS patients and explores the most cutting edge ways to diagnose and treat the specific diseases that are most...
Springer, 2019. — 595 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-10451-1 This book provides the most current overview of the evaluation and management of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV/AIDS. The text assesses the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease in HIV/AIDS patients and explores the most cutting edge ways to diagnose and treat the specific diseases that are most...
Sage Publications, 2012. — 468 p. A work by health care experts and skilled professionals, this well-researched compilation addresses the killer disease of AIDS, its unprecedented health and development threat in Asia and studies how the region has responded to this epidemic in the last three decades. An edited volume, Three Decades of HIV/ AIDS in Asia contains...
Humana Press, 2009. — 350 p. Written by leading experts, this book offers a picture of how HIV impairs the brain, focusing on emerging areas including genetic strains of the virus, interactions between advanced age and HIV, and the impact of HIV on the brain during antiretroviral therapy.
Springer, 2012. — 379 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4614-0438-5 Three decades into the HIV pandemic, the goals remain clear: reduce the number of infections,improve the health outcomes of those who are infected, and eliminate disparities in care. And one observation continues to gain credence: families are a powerful resource in preventing, adapting to, and coping with HIV. Recognizing...
Author not stated. — National Research Council$ Institute of Medicine. — National Academic Press, 1995. — 352 p. This volume addresses the interface of two major national problems: the epidemic of HIV-AIDS and the widespread use of illegal injection drugs. Should communities have the option of giving drug users sterile needles or bleach for cleaning needs in order to reduce the...
Bentham Science Publishers, 2015. — 300 p. Frontiers in Clinical Drug Research – HIV is an eBook series that brings updated reviews to readers interested in learning about advances in the development of pharmaceutical agents for the treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other disorders associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The scope...
National Academic Press, 2005. — 150 p. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 afflicts hundreds of thousands of children every year, especially in parts of the world such as sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV infection is prevalent and resources are limited. This tragic reality has spurred researchers to search for an effective, safe, and inexpensive treatment that could reduce the...
Left Coast Press, 2006. — 247 p. A witch's curse, an imperialist conspiracy, a racist plotaHIV/AIDS is a catastrophic health crisis with complex cultural dimensions. From small villages to the international system, explanations of where it comes from, who gets it, and who dies are tied to political agendas, religious beliefs, and the psychology of devastating grief. Frequently...
Springer, 2007. — 300 p. Computational and Evolutionary Analysis of HIV Molecular Sequences. Book is for all researchers interested in HIV research, even those who only have a nodding acquaintance with computational biology (or those who are familiar with some, but not all, aspects of the field). HIV research is unusual in that it brings together scientists from a wide range of...
University of Washington Press, 2009. — 148 p. Winner of the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize HIV has changed in the presence of recent biomedical technologies. In particular, the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs) for the treatment of HIV was a significant landmark in the history of the disease. Treatment with ARV drug regimens, which began in 1996, has...
Handbooks in Health Care, 2009. — 220 p. — ISBN10: 1931981388; ISBN13: 978-1931981385. Medical Interventions for Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections. Our ideas about medical preparedness were changed by the tragedies that occurred ob September 11, 2001. This practical handbook explores emerging and existing pathogens that could be used as weapons of mass infection, for...
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2017. — 390 p. Preface HIV infection remains among the most important infectious diseases worldwide. Although the epidemic has changed significantly over the years, traditional obstacles to successful care remain including prevention, early diagnosis, stigma and public perception, linkage to care, retention in care, and adherence...
Springer, 2012. - 224 p. ISBN: 144191711X Liver disease has been identified as a leading cause of death in HIV-infected patients since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in 1996. The HIV treatment community has been caught largely unaware of this emerging dilemma. Many HIV care providers are ill-equipped to understand and interpret liver injury...
Nova Science Pub Inc, 2014. — 291 p. — (Virology Research Progress). — ISBN10: 1631172212; ISBN13: 978-1631172212. Viral infection is a disease caused by microorganisms, which invade a living cell and use its mechanisms to reproduce. Viruses need to colonize a host organism in order to fulfill its vital functions because it lacks the biochemical organizations that replication...
World Health Organization, 1998. — 313 p. This book is testimony to the importance of linking research to intervention and policy making. It indicates the major benefits to be derived from comparative international studies. We now know a considerable amount about the successful public health response to drug injecting and HIV infection. Although the precise nature of preventive...
Handbook for parliamentarians. — № 15. — United Nations development programms. Inter-Parliamentary Union. — 2007. — 280 p. This Handbook is both a call to action for parliamentary leadership and a reference book to which parliamentarians and their staff may turn for information and guidance on specific issues of importance in the response to HIV. The Handbook provides many...
Springer, 2015. — 257 p. This volume thoroughly covers HIV-1 antiretrovirals currently in clinical use, together with their advantages and limitations. HIV-1 inhibitor resistance is discussed in detail, and critical assessments as to what will be required of future antiretrovirals in order to halt viral replication, reduce viral resistance, and alter the state of viral latency...
Palgrave, 2006. — xv, 221 p. Russia and a few other Eurasian countries have been home to the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the world over the last several years. This volume offers country-specific accounts, authored by the leading players in the analysis of the situation and the fight against the virus.
Kluwer, 2002. — 391 p. he discovery of the human T cell leukemia virus type I in the late 1970s heralded a new era in retrovirology. For the first time, it was demonstrated that a retrovirus could play a role in the development of a human disease, in this case adult T cell leukemia (ATL). Several years later, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic began, and it...
Springer, 2000. — xxii, 368 p. The discovery of the human T cell leukemia virus type I in the late 1970s heralded a new era in retrovirology. For the first time, it was demonstrated that a retrovirus could play a role in the development of a human disease, in this case adult T cell leukemia (ATL). Several years later, the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic...
The United Nations. — 48 p. The first issue of 2011 focuses on the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS, now entering its fourth decade. Coinciding with the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS in June 2011, the issue looks back at lessons learned from the earliest advocates that fought bravely against the virus and the stigma that came with it. It celebrates the strides...
Springer, 2019. — 379 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-32458-2 This book gathers a series of pivotal papers on the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine published in the last two decades. Accompanied by extensive comments putting the material into an up-to-date context, all three parts of the book offer a broad overview of the numerous unsuccessful attempts made in recent years to develop a...
Springer, 2019. — 1542 p. — ISBN: 978-3-030-32459-9 This book gathers a series of pivotal papers on the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine published in the last two decades. Accompanied by extensive comments putting the material into an up-to-date context, all three parts of the book offer a broad overview of the numerous unsuccessful attempts made in recent years to develop a...
InTech. 2011. 186 p. Some of the topics covered in this book are: HIV infection HIV transmission Clinical symptoms of AIDS AIDS and opportunistic infection Prevention and treatment of HV Treatment of HIV infection and immune reconstitution. HIV and Altered Immune Responses Infection for Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in the HIV/AIDS Patients...
2nd Edition. — Oxford, New York, UK, USA: Oxford University Press, 2016. — 118 p. — ISBN: 0198727496. In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in 1981; by 2004 it was estimated that about 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Yet the...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). HIV/AIDS is without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. As of 2004 an estimated 40 million people were living with the disease, and about 20 million had died. Despite rapid scientific advances there is still no cure and the drugs are expensive and toxic. In the developing world,...
Academic Press, 2004. — 1099 p. Extensively revised and updated, the new edition of AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection is an essential reference resource providing a comprehensive overview of the biological properties of this etiologic viral agent, its clinicopathological manifestations, the epidemiology of its infection, and present and future therapeutic options.
Springer, 2020. — 1885 p. — ISBN: 978-981-13-8518-6 With HIV becoming the leading cause of infectious-disease mortality in Mainland China, this book focuses on tackling HIV/AIDS in the face of rapid political and economic change in China. Featuring contributions by over a dozen leading figures in the field, this book is the go-to text for any student or reader interested in how...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 801 p. This comprehensive textbook provides the definitive account of effective care for pediatric HIV patients. Drawing on the massive and burgeoning published literature from a wide range of sources, this volume summarizes a wealth of information concerning the etiology of the disease and the best clinical care for this vulnerable group. It...
Springer, 2018. — 325 p. — (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 1075). This book provides a comprehensive review of the major barriers to HIV cure and vaccine. It covers the fundamental virology and immunology leading to HIV transmission, protection from infection and long term HIV persistence on antiretroviral therapy. In addition, strategies being tested to...
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