Placing AIDS and HIV in Remission: A Guide to Aggressive Medical Therapy for People with HIV Infection Book

This is the most up-to-date and clearly written book on HIV therapy in existence. Written for the layperson and medical provider, this is a guide to aggressive medical therapy for HIV infection. It covers the HIV world epidemic, HIV viral structure, the course of the disease without treatment, all of the 11 approved medicines and approximately 20 additional in research. The core of the book describes the reasoning behind triple therapy including protease inhibitors and how to initiate this therapy in a simple manner. Other chapters cover treating resistant HIV, preventing infections, reversing weight loss, the national economics of HIV therapy, and the search for a cure. Placing AIDS & HIV in Remission is a milestone in the field of HIV therapy that no one with any interest in HIV should be without.