AIDS update 2011
Subtitle: an annual overview of acquired immune deficiency syndrome
By: Gerald J. Stine
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9780073527635
Subjects: AIDS (Disease); HIV (Viruses); Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; HIV; Sida; Virus de l'immunodéficience humaine
Other titles: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome update 2011
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Histories of global pandemics, AIDS, its place in history, overview of HIV/AIDS, international AIDS conferences and means of remembering; title: the AIDS Quilt, Candlelight memorial and World AIDS Day; title: AIDS: defining the disease and finding its cause; title: What causes AIDS: origin of the AIDS virus; title: Biological characteristics of HIV; title: Anti-HIV therapy; title: The immunology of HIV disease/AIDS; title: Opportunistic infections and cancers associated with HIV disease/AIDS; title: A profile of biological indicators for HIV disease and progression to AIDS; title: Epidemiology and transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus; title: Preventing the transmission of HIV; title: Prevalence of HIV infections; title: Testing for HIV; title: AIDS and society.