Full Description
This book is meant for persons involved in the care of patients with Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS. This includes postgraduates in Dermatology and Venereology and allied disciplines, practising skin and VD and HIV/AIDS specialists and general practitioners. It would also help those pursuing training for HIV/AIDS specialization. This book will serve as a reference book to those teaching the subject to MBBS, nursing and paramedical courses. It has been approved as a textbook by the Medical Council of India, New Delhi, for MD and diploma in Dermatology and Venereology, and as a reference book for the MBBS course.
Key Points:
Comprehensive coverage of STD and HIV/AIDS
Perspective of developing countries on epidemiology and treatment
Effect of STD and HIV/AIDS on health of individual and community
STD and HIV/AIDS in women and children
More than 150 illustrations
Clinical and syndromic approach
Updated treatment guidelines by NACO, CDC and WHO
Prevention of STD and HIV/AIDS
Vaccines for STD and HIV/AIDS
Contents
PART I: GENERAL
PART II: HIV/AIDS
PART III: BASICS OF ANATOMY AND CLINICAL & LABORATORY METHODS
PART IV: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
PART V: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS
PART VI: DRUG RESISTANCE
PART VII: CONTROL OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
PART VIII: NON-VENEREAL SKIN DISEASES OF GENITALIA
PART IX: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES
PART X: GENERAL GUIDELINES IN CLINICAL APPROACH TO STDs
PART XI: APPENDICES
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