This self-instructional booklet is designed for primary care physicians active in the care of HIV patients. Additionally it is right for medical students, residents, interns and other allied healthcare professionals who take part in patient management and may constitute interest to psychologists, nurses, social workers, marriage and family counselors along with other health professionals who [...]

Greater than 1500 children become infected with HIV every day. The vast majority (more than 90%) acquire the infection using their mother. Children may acquire HIV during pregnancy, labour, delivery or, after birth, through breastfeeding. Among infected infants that are not breastfed, about two-thirds of cases of mother-to-child transmission occur around the time of delivery [...]

HIV fraud may be the promotion, advertisement, or sale of items that are supposed to diagnose, treat, or cure HIV when those products weren’t shown to be safe and effective for anyone purposes. Regular medicine does not have relief from HIV. Since it is a serious illness, many people with HIV disease are willing to [...]

Individuals with advanced HIV infection are susceptible to infections or malignancies which are called "opportunistic" because they take advantage of the opportunity provided by a weakened immune system. Various treatments and prophylaxis—some easy and low-cost, others highly complex and expensive—exist to counter the most typical opportunistic diseases, but delivery systems and funding are insufficient in [...]

The most effi cient and cost-effective way to tackle paediatric HIV globally is to reduce mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). However, every single day there are nearly 1500 new infections in children under 15 years old, more than 90% of these occurring within the third world and many being associated with MTCT (1). HIV-infected infants frequently present [...]