Table of Contents

The AmFAR AIDS Handbook

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword and Acknowledgments
Introduction By Mathilde Krim
Abbreviations and Conventions Used in This Book
What you Need to Know about HIV/AIDS

Chapter 1. Diagnosis of HIV Infection and Initial Physician Care
Chapter 2. Testing for HIV
Chapter 3. Transmission of HIV
Chapter 4. HIV Infection and the Course of HIV Disease
Chapter 5. Treatment of HIV Disease
Chapter 6. Clinical Trials and Drug Development for HIV Disease
Chapter 7. Opportunistic Infections and HIV Disease
Chapter 8. Cancer and HIV
Chapter 9. Prevention of HIV Infection
Chapter 10. Vaccines Against HIV Infection
Chapter 11. Women and HIV Disease
Chapter 12. Children and HIV Disease
Chapter 13. Living with HIV Disease

The Medical Science of HIV/AIDS

Chapter 14. The Cell
Chapter 15. DNA, RNA, and Protein Synthesis
Chapter 16. The Immune System: An Overview
Chapter 17. Viruses: An Overview
Chapter 18. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus v Chapter 19. Genes and Gene Regulation in HIV
Chapter 20. The Emergence and Early Years of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Chapter 21. Evidence that HIV is the Cause of AIDS

Glossary

Appendix 1. More Information about HIV/AIDS
Appendix 2. The 1993 Classification System for HIV/AIDS

Index