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Course Name HIV AIDS: Cause
Audience Physicians, allied healthcare providers, and others with the interest in management of patients with HIV AIDS and Patients
Course Requirements Physicians, allied healthcare providers, and others with the interest in management of patients with Osteoarthritis.

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Pre-requisites None
Course Duration Approximately One hour. Time may vary based on modem speed, prerequisite knowledge and other factors
Course Objectives This course HIV and AIDS: CAUSE, presents basic scientific and medical background information about HIV infection.
This course is divided into two sections:
  • The first section, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, discuss the structure of HIV, the known HIV polymorphism, and how virus infects a cell and effect the human immune system.
  • The second section, EPIDEMIOLOGY, describes the incidence and prevalence of HIV throughout the world.
Course Outline
  1. Introduction
    1. Course Information
    2. Interface Tour
    3. Course Overview
  2. Pathophysiology
    1. Objectives
    2. Structure of HIV
    3. HIV Polymorphism
    4. Polymorphic strain classification
    5. Transmission and infection
    6. Cellular Consequences
    7. HIV Target Cell
    8. T Cells, B Cells and APCs
    9. Immune Activation
    10. HIV Evasions of the immune response
    11. Progress Check
  3. Epidemiology
    1. Objectives
    2. Incidences and Prevalence
    3. Gender and Prevalence
    4. Developing Countries and West Africa
    5. Eastern and Sub-Saharan Africa
    6. South-East Asia
    7. High Income Countries
    8. Progress Check
  4. Conclusions
    1. Summary
  5. Glossary/Resources
    1. Glossary
    2. Resources
     
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