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Course Name
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HIV and AIDS Treatment
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| Audience |
Physicians, allied healthcare providers, and others with the interest in management of patients with HIV and Patients |
| Course Requirements |
Plug-in Requirements
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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 |
Introduction:
This course "HIV AND AIDS: TREATMENT" presents basic scientific and medical background information about disease progression and treatment options.
This course is divided into two sections:
Transcripts
- PROGNOSIS discusses the prognoses of individuals infected with HIV depending on time and stage of diagnoses, access to treatment, and host polymorphisms.
- PHARMACOLOGICAL THERAPIES details the various treatment options currently available.
- EMERGING THERAPIES describes several of the avenues pursued by researchers in the development of new therapies to treat HIV disease.
- TREATMENT STRATEGIES outlines issues in treatment and patient management.
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| Course Outline |
- Introduction
- Course Information
- Interface Tour
- Course Overview
- Prognosis
- Objectives
- Prognosis
- Disease Progression in Children
- Host-Disease Interactions
- Progress Check
- Pharmacological Therapies
- Objectives
- NRTI and NIRTI
- NNRTI
- Protease Inhibitors
- Entry/Fusion Inhibitors
- Progress Check
- Emerging Therapies
- Objectives
- Gene Therapy
- RNAi
- Biological Agents
- Nuclear Translocation Inhibitors
- Integrase Inhibitors and Zinc Fingers
- Vaccines
- Progress Check
- Treatment Strategies I
- Objectives
- Drug Therapy Outcomes
- Initiating Therapy
- Combination Therapies
- Factors Affecting Outcome
- Effect of Drug Therapy
- Treatment Strategies II
- Objectives
- Lip dystrophy
- Drug Interactions
- Concomitant Disease
- Adverse Events
- Therapeutic Approach
- Patient Adherence
- Progress Check
- Conclusions
- Summary
- Glossary/Resources
- Glossary
- Resources
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