Textbook of pediatric HIV care

摘要

Another multiauthor textbook on paediatric HIV. How will it help you when you meet children and families infected with and affected by HIV? It will provide good background information for teaching and personal study, but may be less valuable in managing HIV positive children.The book aims to provide "accessible information" and hopes to become ihe "standard reference for clinicians throughout the world". However, the book mostly focuses on practice in the US {not surprising when all but one of the authors work there).The book provides some useful background information on HIV and its specific complications. It is well laid out, with many subheadings, and every chapter has an aim at the start. The chapters on virology and post-exposure prophylaxis are useful.The increasing number of drugs available for children with HIV will make any textbook out of date almost as soon as it is published. This is probably the case here. To try to get round this, links to web-based guidelines are given. However, eventhe current Paediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA) guidelines (www.ctu.mrc.ac.uk/ penta/) are being revised to try to keep up with this rapidly developing area.