Title:
AIDS update, 2001 : an annual overview of acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Author:
Stine, Gerald James.
ISBN:
9780130909626
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2001.
Physical Description:
xxi, 522 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Discovering AIDS, naming the disease -- What causes AIDS: origin of the AIDS virus -- Biological characteristics of the AIDS virus -- Anti-HIV therapy -- The immunology of HIV disease/AIDS -- Opportunistic infections and cancers associated with HIV disease/AIDS -- A profile of biological indicators for HIV disease and progression to AIDS -- Epidemiology and transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus -- Preventing the transmission of HIV -- Prevalence of HIV infections, AIDS cases, and deaths among select groups in the United States -- Prevalence of HIV infection and AIDS cases among women, children, and teenagers in the United States -- Testing for human immunodeficiency virus -- AIDS and society: knowledge, attitudes, and behavior.