Download or read book A Practical Guide to HIV AIDS in Africia written by Darrell E. Ward and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to HIV/AIDS in Africa: The Disease, Its Prevention, and Basic Home Care is a comprehensive primer about HIV/AIDS tailored for Africans. It draws on Darrell E. Ward's experience in southern and West Africa working with Africans fighting the AIDS epidemic and conducting HIV education. Ward describes the virus and the evidence of its African origins, and explains HIV disease and its prevention and treatment. In addition, he suggests ways for overcoming stigma and educating young people about sex and HIV. This comprehensive prevention and treatment manual addresses abstinence, faithfulness, and safer-sex practices. A chapter on antiretroviral therapy explains the drugs that can control HIV disease and that are becoming available in Africa through the World Health Organization. Diagrams of the female and male reproductive systems are included to help women understand their body and help illustrate why women are more susceptible than men to HIV infection. Filled with practical information about living with HIV and about caring for people with AIDS in resource-limited settings, A Practical Guide to HIV/AIDS in Africa is an indispensable reference for African nurses, social and health workers, university and medical students, journalists, and secondary-school science teachers, as well as HIV-related nongovernmental organizations, school principals, government workers with national AIDS programs, and people living with HIV and their caregivers.
Download or read book Africa written by Laurel A. Spielberg and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative and indispensable guidebook for people traveling to Africa to work on health or humanitarian projects
Download or read book The AIDS Epidemic in South Africa written by John Chibaya Mbuya and published by Dr John Chibaya Mbuya. This book was released on 2000 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub Saharan Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The AIDS epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa continues to affect all facets of life throughout the subcontinent. Deaths related to AIDS have driven down the life expectancy rate of residents in Zambia, Kenya, and Uganda with far-reaching implications. This book details the current state of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and what is known about the behaviors that contribute to the transmission of the HIV infection. It lays out what research is needed and what is necessary to design more effective prevention programs.
Download or read book Aids Epidemic in South Africa written by John Chibiya Mbuya and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primary HIV AIDS Care written by Clive Evian and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a guideline for primary care in treating and managing people with HIV infection. It includes, counselling, care of people dying, information on anti-retroviral therapy,ethical and moral consideration,mother to child transmission, TB and sexually transmitted infections.
Download or read book AIDS in the Workplace in Southern Africa written by Clive Evian and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primary AIDS Care written by Clive Evian and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide for primary health care personnel in the clinical and supportive care of people with HIV/AIDS. This book is a user-friendly, practical guide for medical personnel who treat, care for, or support people with HIV/AIDS at the primary care level. This updated edition addresses many areas including TB, STDs, HIV testing, counselling, treatment, education terminal care, specific needs of women and children, mother to child transmission and risk and injury to health care personnel. Illustrations are used throughout the book to promote a caring, accepting attidue to AIDS. In addition to doctors and primary care nurses, this book is also useful for counsellors, social workers, psychologists, alternative health care professionals and therapists. It also serves as a useful reference guide in clinics and in the training of personnel.
Download or read book HIV Psychiatry written by James A. Bourgeois and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a practical guide in understanding how to prevent HIV transmission, to recognize risk behaviors, and to add something else to their repertoires. It aims to empower clinicians and provide a sense of security and competence with the recognition and understanding of some of the psychiatric illnesses that complicate and perpetuate the HIV pandemic that continue to persist throughout every area of the world despite the magnitude of the progress that has transformed the illness from a rapidly fatal to chronic illness that is no longer life-limiting. Missing in most of the literature on HIV is the subtle, and sometimes not so subtle, contribution of psychiatric symptoms, psychiatric illness, and risk behaviors that drive the pandemic and serve as catalysts for new infections. This practical guide provides state-of-the-art understanding of not only prevention but also a way to recognize risk behaviors, psychiatric symptoms, and psychiatric illnesses that will demystify and decode the sometimes enigmatic and frustrating reasons for nonadherence with diagnostic procedures and life-saving treatments and care. All behaviors and pathology are covered as well as the resources and treatments available. The goal of this text is to refresh knowledge on the current state of psychiatric illness management among people living with HIV, to provide a concise volume on the psychiatric aspects of HIV prevention and treatment that substantially impact the overall care of the patient, and to help understand the psychiatric catalysts of the pandemic Written by experts in the field, HIV Psychiatry: A Practical Guide for Clinicians provides enduring guidance to medical and other professionals caring for complicated clinical patients as they face ongoing challenges in working with persons with HIV and AIDS.
Download or read book Life First written by MSUYA Wences and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Living with HIV AIDS written by Peter De Ruyter and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Australian book of its kind on the market.
Download or read book Handbook of HIV Medicine written by Douglas Wilson and published by OUP Southern Africa. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook can be used as an invaluable practical guide for practitioners at varying levels of expertise who deal with HIV/AIDS in a variety of contexts from counselling to prescribing antiretroviral medicine. It also serves as a teaching aid for medical students.
Download or read book Preparing for the Future of HIV AIDS in Africa written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HIV/AIDS is a catastrophe globally but nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa, which in 2008 accounted for 67 percent of cases worldwide and 91 percent of new infections. The Institute of Medicine recommends that the United States and African nations move toward a strategy of shared responsibility such that these nations are empowered to take ownership of their HIV/AIDS problem and work to solve it.
Download or read book Facts and Myths about HIV AIDS written by Mutaryebwa Francis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life First written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 6 written by King K. Holmes and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infectious diseases are the leading cause of death globally, particularly among children and young adults. The spread of new pathogens and the threat of antimicrobial resistance pose particular challenges in combating these diseases. Major Infectious Diseases identifies feasible, cost-effective packages of interventions and strategies across delivery platforms to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, malaria, adult febrile illness, viral hepatitis, and neglected tropical diseases. The volume emphasizes the need to effectively address emerging antimicrobial resistance, strengthen health systems, and increase access to care. The attainable goals are to reduce incidence, develop innovative approaches, and optimize existing tools in resource-constrained settings.
Download or read book A Practical Guide for People Living with HIV written by Craig McClure and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
