HIV and AIDS: Basic Elements and Priorities

Section One. Fundamentals

1. Prologue

2. Fundamentals of Immunity

3. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

4. Social and Environmental Factors

5. Immunopathology

6. Natural History of HIV Infection

7. Infection Control Methods

Section Two. Diagnostic Aspects

8. Case Definitions

9. Laboratory Diagnosis of HIV Infection

10. Laboratory Diagnosis of Common Reproductive Tract and Sexually Transmitted Infections

Section Three. Clinical Aspects

11. Accidental Occupational Exposure

12. HIV-Related Neurological Disorders

13. HIV-Related Psychological Disorders

14. Co-Infection with HIV and Tuberculosis

15. Sexually transmitted infections

16. Antiretroviral Therapy

17. Traditional ethnomedicinal systems and alternative therapies

Section Four. Prevention and Control

18. Strategies for Prevention and Control

19. Surveillance for HIV

20. Counselling

21. Voluntary Counselling and Testing Services

22. Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission

23. Human Rights, Legal, and Ethical Issues

24. Role of Health Care Providers

25. Preventive HIV Vaccine

26. Response to the HIV Epidemic in India

27. Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Thailand

28. Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in China

29. Epilogue

DRM-restrictions

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