Textbook of Pediatric HIV Care

This comprehensive textbook provides the definitive account of effective care for pediatric HIV patients. Drawing on the massive and burgeoning published literature from a wide range of sources, this volume summarises a wealth of information concerning the aetiology of the disease and the best clinical care for this vulnerable group. It distils the very latest knowledge of virology, immunology and pathogenesis and uses this to illuminate and explain management recommendations. Recently, many new agents for the treatment and prophylaxis of HIV infection and the opportunistic infections that accompany HIV infection have been developed, accompanied by many new ways of monitoring HIV infection in children. These new therapies and approaches to management are complicated, but the long-term health of HIV-infected children depends on their meticulously correct application. This textbook explains, helps and guides the clinician through all these complexities to facilitate the best possible care for children with HIV infection.

• Covers management of HIV and treatment of opportunistic infections • Covers the basic science and immunology of the diseases as a key to understanding aetiology and treatment • Comprehensive, up-to-date and authoritative, and written by a prominent team of the world’s leading experts
Contents

Part I. Scientific Basis of Pediatric HIV Care; Part II. General Issues in the Care of Pediatric HIV Patients; Part III. Antiretroviral Therapy; Part IV. Clinical Manifestations of HIV Infection in Children; Part V. Infectious Problems in Pediatric HIV Disease; Part VI. Medical Social and Legal Issues.
Prize Winner

BMA Book Competition Awards 2006 - Highly commended
Reviews

'This new textbook is a much-needed, complete and comprehensive reference book for all those who provide care for HIV-infected infants, children and adolescents. … this textbook can be regarded as a major reference for pediatric HIV and is to be highly recommended for all working in this field.' Acta Pædiatrica

'The Textbook of Pediatric HIV Care certainly teaches us what today's best standards of care are.' The Lancet

'I found this textbook to have a wealth of information that will be useful for all health care professionals - including nurses, medical students, general pediatricians, and pediatric infections diseases experts - who are involved in the care of infants, children, and adolescents with HIV infection … I think it will be very useful as a reference text in many countries … there are very few that provide as comprehensive and holistic an approach to the provision of pediatric HIV care as this textbook does … the book is relatively easy to use and information can be accessed rather quickly.' Clinical Infectious Diseases
Contributors

Cathy Wilfert, Sherlyn Smith, Ann J. Melvin, Steven L. Zeichner, Elizabeth J. McFarland, Paul Palumbo, Grace M. Aldrovandi, Mary Lou Lindegren, Paul Krogstad, Jennifer S. Read, Elaine Abrams, Lisa-Gaye Robinson, Rachel Y. Moon, Russell B. Van Dyke, James M. Callahan, John Farley, Bret R. Rudy, Ligia Peralta, Sandra Cely, Caroline J. Chantry, Jack Moye Jr, Pamela L. Wolters, Pim Brouwers, Ross McKinney Jr, Thomas N. Kakuda, Courtney V. Fletcher, Carol J. Worrell, Frank Maldarelli, Lynne M. Mofenson, Leslie K. Serchuck, Stephen C. Piscitelli, Kenneth L. Dominguez, Andrew Blauvelt, Lucy Civitello, Howard F. Fine, Susan S. Lee, Michael R. Robinson, Jane C. Atkinson, Ellen R. Wald, Barry Dashefsky, Gul H. Dadlani, Steven E. Lipshultz, Lauren V. Wood, William C. Owen, Eric J. Werner, Harland S. Winter, Jack Moye, Somsak Tanawattanacharoen, Jeffrey B. Kopp, Daina Dreimane, Mitchell E. Geffner, Richard F. Little, Shirley Jankelevich, Rohan Hazra, Robert N. Husson, Corina E. Gonzalez, Richard M. Rutstein, Stuart E. Starr, Leslie K. Serchuck, James McNamara, Stephen J. Chanock, Sandra Y. Lewis, Heidi J. Haiken, Lori S. Wiener, Carolyn McAllaster, Paul Jarosinki