Description
A guide for primary health care personnel in the clinical and supportive care of people with HIV/AIDS. This title is a guide for medical personnel who treat, care for, or support people with HIV/AIDS at the primary care level. This 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. In addition to doctors and primary care nurses, this guide 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.