San Francisco General Hospital Handbook of HIV Management

An HIV-management handbook from the AIDS Division of the San Francisco General Hospital. It offers practical help in diagnosing and treating the major complications of HIV disease. Designed for both hospital and outpatient settings, it provides algorithms, drug doses and complications. It reviews the management of specific populations as well as including the most rapidly growing part of the epidemic, HIV in women. Six chapters cover the initial evaluation of an HIV-infected patient, standards of care for HIV-positive women, protease inhibitor therapy, HIV-related conditions, and diagnostic approaches to respiratory symptoms and to neurological disease. The last chapter is a comprehensive reference to drug therapy.