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100 Questions & Answers About HIV and AIDS, Second Edition

Author(s): Joel E. Gallant, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Associate Director, Johns Hopkins AIDS Service, Baltimore, Maryland
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  • ISBN-13: 9781449655174
  • Paperback    204 pages      © 2012
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EMPOWER YOURSELF!

Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient, survivor, or loved one of someone suffering from HIV or AIDS, 100 Questions & Answers About HIV & AIDS offers essential and practical guidance. Providing both doctor and patient perspectives, this consise and authoritative resource answers to the most commonly asked questions about Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) including diagnosis, treatment, post-treatment quality of life, alternative medicine, targeted therapy, and coping strategies.

Written by Joel Gallant, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology and Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service, this patient education title is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this disease.

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Part  1  Now That You Know
Part  2  The Basics
Part  3  Diagnosis
Part  4  Medical Care
Part  5  Getting Started
Part  6  Starting Treatment
Part  7  Staying on Therapy
Part  8  Side Effects and Toxicity
Part  9  Opportunistic Infections and Other Complications
Part  10  Symptoms
Part  11  Women’s Issues, Pregnancy, and Children
Part  12  Coinfection
Part  13  Mental Health and Substance Abuse
Part  14  Relationships, Sexuality, and Prevention
Part  15  Living with HIV Infection
Part  16  Questions for Those Who Still Have Questions
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Joel E. Gallant, MD, MPH-Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Associate Director, Johns Hopkins AIDS Service, Baltimore, Maryland

Joel E. Gallant, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology and Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins AIDS Service in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Gallant is an infectious disease specialist with expertise in HIV infection and AIDS. He studied medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, completed his internal medicine training at Yale-New Haven Hospital and his infectious disease fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he now cares for hundreds of HIV-positive patients and conducts research on new treatments for HIV infection. Dr. Gallant, who received the HIV Clinical Education Award from the HIV Medical Association in 2006, is internationally recognized for his ability to communicate new research developments and treatment strategies to both professional and lay audiences. He is also the coauthor of Medical Management of HIV Infection, and is editor-in-chief of the Hopkins HIV Guide (www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/ub).

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