AIDS Update 1999

The most comprehensive, authoritative, informative, accurate, and up-to-date book on HIV/AIDS currently available. It presents the entire 16-year chronology of the AIDS pandemic in a reasonable, logical, and scientific manner that interweaves biological, clinical, social, and legal discoveries in a uniquely readable presentation.

Introduction

1 Discovering AIDS, Naming the Disease

28

(10)

2 What Causes AIDS: Origin of the AIDS Virus

38

(11)

3 Biological Characteristics of the AIDS Virus

49

(20)

4 Anti-HIV Therapy

69

(36)

5 The Immunology of HIV Disease/AIDS

105

(28)

6 Opportunistic Infections, and Cancers Associated with HIV Disease/AIDS

133

(32)

7 A Profile of Biological Indicators for HIV Disease and Progression to AIDS

165

(28)

8 Epidemiology and Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

193

(56)

9 Preventing the Transmission of HIV

249

(50)

10 Prevalence of HIV Infections, AIDS Cases, and Deaths Among Select Groups in the United States

299

(30)

11 Prevalence of HIV Infection and AIDS Cases Among Women, Children, and Teenagers in the United States

329

(28)

12 Testing for Human Immunodeficiency Virus

357

(39)

13 AIDS and Society: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior

396

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