HIV Management in Australasia

HIV Management in Australasia guide for clinical care is a leading HIV clinical resource, reflecting current knowledge and recommended practice in HIV medicine.

It covers the basic virology, immunology and natural history of HIV, discusses therapeutics and monitoring and outlines many clinical manifestations of the virus. It can be used both as a reference resource in clinical practice and a teaching tool for participants and educators.

The guide is the key text used in ASHM's accreditation course for HIV s100 prescribers and in continuing medication education scheme for community medical practitioners to maintain HIV s100 prescriber rights. Further, the guide is a key source of information used by many medical institutions, health departments and universities for HIV and Hepatitis C-related education projects in Australia and New Zealand

The guide contains following chapters:

Basic Virology, Immunology and Natural History

Chapter 1 - Basic HIV virology

Chapter 2 - HIV immunopathology

Chapter 3 - Natural History of HIV infection

Chapter 4 - Diagnostics

Therapeutics and monitoring

Chapter 5 - Antiretroviral therapy

Chapter 6 - New HIV diagnosis

Chapter 7 - Initiation of antiretroviral therapy in the naive patient

Chapter 8 - Managing the patient on antiretroviral therapy

Chapter 9 - Approaches to the management of antiretroviral therapy toxicity

Chapter 10 - Strategies to improve treatment outcome

Chapter 11 - Post-exposure prophylaxis

Clinical manifestations of HIV disease

Chapter 12 - Clinical manifestations and the natural history of HIV

Chapter 13 - Key opportunistic infections

Chapter 14 - Respiratory manifestations

Chapter 15 - Gastrointestinal manifestations

Chapter 16 - Dermatological manifestations

Chapter 17 - Oncological conditions

Chapter 18 - Neurological conditions

Chapter 19 - Systemic symptoms and systemic infections

Chapter 20 - Other diseases or disorders

Chapter 21 - Co-infection

Chapter 22 - Immune restoration diseases