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Comprehensive & Cost Effective Laboratory Monitoring of HIV/AIDS: an African Role Model
Published on: October 31, 2010
[Women and AIDS. HIV-positive patients need special monitoring]
G Arendt1, A M Funke, B Gantke
1Neurologische Klinik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. arendtg@uni-duesseldorf.de
Abstract:
Worldwide, 50% of all HIV-positive persons are female. The situation is particularly dismal in Africa and Asia, in South America and in the Caribbean. Germany is confronted with a high percentage of immigrants from countries in these parts of the world, and consequently must expect to see an increasing rate of HIV-positive women from these regions. This makes programs for the management of female HIV-positive victims an urgent necessity. The present article describes a multidisciplinary concept, whose aim it is, via comprehensive preventive measures, to avoid medium- and long-term complications.
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