A practical guide for primary health care personnel in the clinical and supportive care of people with HIV/AIDS. This book is a user-friendly, practical guide for medical personnel who treat, care for, or support people with HIV/AIDS at the primary care level. This updated edition addresses many areas including TB, STDs, HIV testing, counselling, treatment, education terminal care, specific needs of women and children, mother to child transmission and risk and injury to health care personnel. Illustrations are used throughout the book to promote a caring, accepting attidue to AIDS. In addition to doctors and primary care nurses, this book is also useful for counsellors, social workers, psychologists, alternative health care professionals and therapists. It also serves as a useful reference guide in clinics and in the training of personnel.

This is guide for primary care doctors and nurses in treating and managing people with HIV infection at the primary care level. It will also be useful for counsellors, social workers, therapists, pharmacists and alternative health care professionals who are caring for or supporting people with HIV and AIDS.

This edition addresses the essential medical care for people infected with HIV, as well as issues relating to the epidemic in general, the HIV test, counselling, care of people who are dying. It also provides information on anti-retroviral therapy and common HIV-associated conditions. It covers AIDS and women and children, ethical and moral considerations, HIV risk and accidental exposure to health care workers, reducing mother to child transmission, TB and sexually transmitted infections.

It is ideal for those who are as yet unfamiliar or relatively new to clinical managing or caring for people with HIV/AIDS and to those on the "front line" of primary care. The title will also serve as a useful reference function in clinics and for health care personnel training.

A user-friendly and practical guide for primary care doctors and nurses, the manual is used in treating and managing people with HIV at the primary care level. The book is useful for counsellors, social workers, psychologists and therapists, and will serve as a valuable reference in clinics and hospitals. This 5th Edition, of what was previously known as Primary HIV/AIDS Care, has been siginificantly revised and reissued with updates on new developments in anti-retroviral therapy and the HIV care of children.