HIV

HIV Synopsis

In collaboration with Consulting Editor, Dr. Helen Boucher, Dr. Paul Edward Sax has put together a state-of the-art issue of the Infectious Disease Clinics of North America devoted to HIV.

Clinical review articles from expert authors are specifically devoted to the following topics:

• HIV Diagnostics -- Current Recommendations and Opportunities for Improvement
• Update on HIV Prevention -- PreP, PEP, and Other Strategies
• Initial Assessment -- What Tests to Order and Why
• Why Everyone (Almost) with HIV Needs to be on Treatment -- A Review of the Critical Data
• Initial Therapy in the Integrase Inhibitor Era -- Can We Do Better than Two NRTIs plus an INSTI?
• Switching Therapy in Patients with Virologic Suppression -- A Why and a How-To Guide
• Management of Treatment Failure, With and Without Resistance
• Reproduction Options for People with HIV, and Management of Pregnancy
• HIV and Addiction - the Role of the ID Clinician
• Management of Patients with Advanced HIV Disease - Challenges and Opportunities
• HIV and Aging - Focus on Cardiovascular Risk and Metabolic Abnormalities
• Key Principles in HIV Pharmacology
• One Patient Has Been Cured of HIV - Will There Ever Be More?
• and Linkage and Retention in Care - The Keys to Treatment Success. Readers will come away with the latest information they need to manage diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of HIV patients