AIDS in Africa : A manual for physicians / AIDS in Africa : A manual for physicians

ABSTRACT

In many parts of Africa, infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a major public health problem. The infection is now endemic in several African countries, and estimates of the number of infected people range in the millions. Because of the dramatic rise in the number of cases, many physicians and other health workers are having to cope daily with a disease for which they have had little or no training. Furthermore, most published information on the features of HIV infection relates to patients in Europe and North America, whose symptoms are often different from those of African patients