The Changing Face of HIV and AIDS
Published on 8. November 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-19-922486-9 (ISBN)
Description
This issue forms part of a series of reviews on selected health topics in fields where significant new developments are occurring. It is a helpful reference source and allows those working in other specialities and younger clinicians and scientists to update their knowledge in important and well-defined subject areas.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 190 mm
Weight
521 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-922486-9 (9780199224869)
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Content
ARTICLES; Preface; Introduction; The global epidemiology of HIV/AIDS; Evolutionary and immunological implications of contemporary HIV-1 variation; HIV-1 receptors and cell tropism; The pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection; Demography and economics of HIV/AIDS; Paediatric HIV infection: correlates of protective immunity and global perspectives in prevention and management; HIV-1 transmission and acute HIV-1 infection; Interventions against sexually transmitted infections (STI) to prevent HIV infection; Behavioural interventions to prevent HIV infection: rapid evolution, increasing rigour, moderate success; HIV care in non-industrialised countries; Immune interventions; Prospect of a prophylactic vaccine for HIV