AIDS: A Guide to Clinical Counselling - Softcover

Miller, Riva; Bor, Dr Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1870026616 ISBN 13: 9781870026611

Publisher: Science Press, 1991

Synopsis

Expanding on the 1989 National Research Council volume AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use, this book reports on changing patterns in the distribution of cases and the results of intervention efforts under way. It focuses on two important subpopulations that are becoming more and more at risk: adolescents and women. The committee also reviews strategies to protect blood supplies and to improve the quality of surveys used in AIDS research. AIDS: The Second Decade updates trends in AIDS cases and HIV infection among the homosexual community, intravenous drug users, women, minorities, and other groups; presents an overview of a wide range of behavioral intervention strategies directed at specific groups; discusses discrimination against people with AIDS and HIV infection; and presents available data on the proportion of teenagers engaging in the behaviors that can transmit the virus and on female prostitutes and HIV infection.

About this title

Synopsis:

This guide, aimed at doctors, nurses, counsellors and other health-care professionals, includes extensive examples of counselling interventions and approaches. The book provides practical advice in difficult clinical situations, such as HIV antibody tests and antenatal clinic testing, which is presented in an easy-to-learn approach designed to be applicable to busy clinical settings.

From the Back Cover:

This is a report on changing patterns of sexual behavior and intravenous drug use, the distribution of cases of HIV infection, and the results of intervention efforts underway. The book considers two populations of interest in the second decade of the epidemic: women and adolescents.

About this edition

• Publisher: Science Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1870026616
• ISBN 13: 9781870026611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Dilley James W.