HIV for non-HIV specialists : diagnosing the undiagnosed : a practical guide for healthcare professionals in secondary care to support improved detection and diagnosis of HIV in the UK / by Dr Rachel Baggaley.

  • Baggaley, Rachel
Date:
[2008]
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About this work

Description

"This booklet provides essential information for healthcare professionals in secondary care on: the clinical diagnosis of HIV in non-HIVE specialist settings, with photographs; how to offer an HIV test and give results; barriers to HIC testing for clinicians and patients and strategies for overcoming them; the background and context of HIV in the UK; post-exposure prophylaxis and HIV testing where the patient lacks capacity to consent. Plus: new guidelines on HIV testing for use in all healthcare settings, produced buy the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), the British HIVE Association (BHIVA) and the British Infection Society (BIS). HIVE for non-HIV specialises is instructive, practical and easy to use with a detailed contents list, comprehensive index and full colour illustrations."--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

London : Medical Foundation for AIDS & Sexual Health, [2008]

Physical description

98, IV, 25 pages : colour illustrations ; 21 cm

Related material

This book was donated as part of the Paul Clift archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference PP/CLI https://wellcomecollection.org/works/r2zu274m

Notes

Includes UK national guidelines for HIV testing, 2008 (paginated separately).

Contents

Introduction -- HIV in the UK : an overview -- Recommendations for testing -- How to diagnose HIV in non-HIV specialist secondary care settings -- Pre-test discussion -- Post-test discussion -- Barriers to HIV testing -- Annexes -- Useful sources of further informatino -- References -- Subject index.

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ISBN

  • 9780954997335
  • 0954997336