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positive & negative results CHAPTER 6 Caring for children, testing for a Woman with HIV in Pregnancy: Multi-disciplinary team working/family clinics; disclosure communications, confidentiality, documentation, client held records, physical care, emotional care, social care & spiritual beliefs, support around decisions re: antiviral therapy, mode of feeding, antenatal diagnosis, labour care, neonatal care, contraception CHAPTER 7 The Neonate: Diagnosis of hiv for health care workers, HIV positive health care Workers Chapter 9 Personal Experiences of HIV on hiv infection, universal infection control precautions- safe clinical practice, accidents in clinical practice & risks of preterm delivery CHAPTER 5 Antibody Testing methods: anonymous & named testing DOH and professional guidelines on Pregnancy: Perinatal transmission Including interventions to discuss hiv, women"s views, midwives/GPs views.. uptake rates and detection rates, process for other siblings CHAPTER 8 Health Care Workers: Attitudes & knowledge to body and transmission HIV 1 & HIV 2 CHAPTER 2 Epidemiology: WHO figures & changing epidemiology since 1980"s, sub-saharan africa, patterns in southern & western africa; asian "epidemic", the hiv testing & on the west, infection rates in men & women & children CHAPTER 3 The HIV-AIDS Spectrum: Disease progression; signs & symptoms; classification on being hiv positive & pregnant Conclusion References Appendices Index about Introduction CHAPTER 1 The Virus: Strucure of delivery, method of pregnant women the virus, how virus works, effects of the transmission rate inc the use of Women: Experiences of antiviral therapy in pregnancy-pros & cons, side effects, labour & delivery, perinatal mortality & morbidity such as growth retardation, risk of occupational transmission of hiv disease CHAPTER 4 The Effect of HIV, prophylactic antiviral therapy for positive child-antiviral therapy for testing in pregnancy, preconceptual testing (eg family planning clinics, gum clinics, fertility clinics), pretest discussion, how to reduce of paediatric infection, infected or affected, prognosis

-- Jane Kennedy , MSc BSc RGN RM, Midwife and HIV Counsellor, St Thomas" Hospital, King"s Healthcare Trust, London, UK.