Therapeutic guidelines for HIV infected and HIV exposed children, as of February 2009

British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (Added Author). Canadian Electronic Library (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: The purpose of these guidelines is to describe the role of community pediatricians and family practitioners in the care they can offer to children who are HIV infected and to infants born to HIV infected mothers. The management of HIV disease in children is a shared responsibility of community physicians to provide primary care and pediatric HIV specialists to provide the HIV therapy and care of opportunistic infections.

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Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 electronic text (19 p.) : digital file.
Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, [2009]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Community physician care -- Identify children at risk for HIV disease -- Diagnosis of HIV infection -- Immunizations -- Care of infants born to HIV-positive women -- Care of infants born to women considered at high risk of HIV infection but unknown HIV status -- Specialized HIV care -- Antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children -- Indications for initiation of antiretroviral therapy in children -- Initial therapy for HIV-infected children -- Adverse drug effects -- Changing antiretroviral therapy -- Choosing a new antiretroviral regimen -- Prophylactic therapy for opportunistic infections -- Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP).
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.