Women and HIV

by Sudha Salhan

This book attempts to provide a comprehensive evidence-based, rational treatment of HIV infection and AIDS among the women patients. It describes the role of reproductive tract infection and sexually transmitted diseases in enhancing HIV infection. The signs, symptoms and complications of AIDS are described along with opportunistic infections and their treatment. The book includes information on psychiatric aspects of HIV/AIDS in women, HIV and adolescent girl, infection control and biomedical practices in health care settings, the role of counselling and testing voluntarily its rationale for HIV infection and their treatment. It provides detailed information about the only treatable entity of mother-to-child transmission of disease and includes descriptions on post-exposure prophylaxis and biosafety measures as well as prevention of infection among health workers. It emphasizes on the knowledge of psychological effects of the disease to treat the patient in totality.

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