Caring for patients with HIV infection. Management plan for family physicians.

Can Fam Physician

AIDS Care and Treatment Unit, Health Canada, Ottawa.

Published: October 1993

Caring for and treating patients living with human immunodeficiency virus is challenging for busy family physicians. I present one strategy for managing patients with this complex infectious disease. Using averaged T4 blood cell counts as a marker of disease progression, I use antiretroviral treatment and preventive drug therapy against the complications of HIV infection.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2379870PMC

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