Main description:

This book offers practical solutions to the problems associated with nursing HIV and AIDS patients. It adopts a holistic approach and includes chapters on HIV and pregnancy, paediatric management, dealing with opportunistic infections and the principles of anti-retroviral therapy, as well as chapters on counselling and living positively with HIV and AIDS.

Contents:

Transmission, prevention of the spread of HIV and AIDS and voluntary testing and counselling (VTC); pathophysiology of HIV and AIDS; opportunistic infections; principles of antiretroviral therapy; infection control issues; living positively with HIV and AIDS, patient management and communication; complementary and alternative medicine and HIV and AIDS management; women and HIV and AIDS; HIV and pregnancy; paediatric HIV and AIDS management; HIV and AIDS in the workplace; HIV and AIDS patients and critical care nursing; home-based nursing care; palliative care.