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Updated to reflect recent advancements,
Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2025 offers readers the benefit of over 40 years of collective HIV medical knowledge and experience caring for people affected by HIV. This clear and coherent textbook delves into antiretroviral therapies, including long acting injectables, and presents insights into holistic patient management. The new edition offers continuing education for all healthcare professionals involved in HIV care.
List of contents
- Overall Learning Objectives
- Faculty
- Conflicts of Interest Disclosures
- Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
- Preface
- Carolyn Chu, MD, MD, MSc
- 1. Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America
- Benjamin Sokoloff
- 2. The Origin, Evolution, and Epidemiology of HIV-1 and HIV-2
- Jeffrey T. Kirchner, Emily Min, and Julia Taylor
- 3. Mechanisms of HIV Transmission
- Nancy Aitcheson and Puja H. Nambiar
- 4. Virology: Lifecycle of HIV
- Poonam Mathur, George Lewis
- 5. Immunology of HIV Infection
- Dennis J. Hartigan-O'Connor and Christian Brander
- 6. HIV Testing and Counseling
- M. Elle Saine and Kyle G. Rodino
- 7. Initial Evaluation of The Patient with HIV: History, Physical Examination, and Laboratory Evaluation
- Esteban DelPilar Morales
- 8. Health Maintenance: Select Topics
- Ramiz Kseri
- 9. Diversity and Health Disparities
- Gary F. Spinner
- 10. HIV Care and Prevention: Special Populations
- Catherine Silva, Renata Arrington-Sanders, Zil G. Goldstein, , Elizabeth Imbert, Matthew D. Hickey, Olabimpe Asupoto, Alysse Wurcel, Abby Davids, Ashley Carvalho, Deliana Garcia, Claire Hutkins Seda, and Laszlo Madaras
- 11. HIV Care Coordination
- Margret O. Nelson
- 12. The Pharmacist's Role in HIV Care
- Jennifer Cocohoba
- 13. Principles and Scientific Basis of HIV Therapy
- Neha Sheth Pandit, David E. Koren, and Emily L. Heil
- 14. HIV Prevention: Pharmacotherapy and Non-Pharmacotherapy-based Strategies
- Katrina Baumgartner, Christopher M. Bositis, Wyatt Hanft, Carolyn Chu
- 15. Antiretroviral Therapy Selection/Decision-Making: Initial and Subsequent Regimens
- Saira Ajmal, Zelalem Temesgen, Poonam Mathur and David E. Koren
- 16. Antiretroviral Treatment and Stewardship in Hospital Settings
- David E. Koren and Yoseph Aldras
- 17. HIV Drug Resistance: Evaluation and Clinical Management
- Carolyn Chu, Avani Dalal, and Robert Shafer
- 18. The HIV Reservoir and Cure and Remission Strategies
- Boris Juelg, Rajesh T. Gandhi, and Nikolaus Jilg
- 19. Opportunistic Infections
- Lisa Armitige, Karen J. Vigil, and Rita Wilson Dib
- 20. Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS)
- Dagan Coppock
- 21. Antiretroviral Therapy for Children and Newborns
- Karin Nielsen-Saines
- 22. Select Topics in the Care of Cis-gender Women with HIV
- Aasith Villavicencio Paz, Jillian T. Baron, Christina E. Maguire, and William R. Short
- 23. Aging and HIV
- Aroonsiri Sangarlangkarn, John D. Zeuli, and Anchalee Avihingsanon
- 24. Solid Organ Transplantation in Persons With HIV
- Christine M. Durand
- 25. Malignancies in HIV
- Eva H. Clark and Elizabeth Y. Chiao
- 26. Understanding and Managing Antineoplastic and Antiretroviral Therapy
- Elizabeth M. Sherman and Taylor K. Gill
- 27. Dermatologic Complications of HIV
- Craig Weeks
- 28. Neurological Complications of HIV Infection
- Rodrigo Hasbun and Joseph S. Kass
- 29. Cardiovascular Disease
- Jarrett K. Sell and Jonathan J. Nunez
- 30. Non-Opportunistic Pulmonary Complications
- Priyanka Chakrabarti
- 31. Renal Complications
- Patricia Carr Reese and Umar Farooq
- 32. Endocrine Disorders and Metabolic Complications In HIV
- Daniel Lee
- 33. HIV and Bone Health
- Roger Bedimo
- 34. Substance Use and HIV
- Thanh Thuy Truong
- 35. Psychiatric Disorders and HIV
- Richa Vijayvargiya and Elizabeth David
- 36. HIV and Hepatitis Coinfection
- Karen J. Vigil
- 37. Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Karen J. Vigil
- 38. Legal Issues
- Anna Kastner
- 39. HIV Healthcare Programs and Insurance Coverage in the US Healthcare System
- Chauncey McGlathery
- Index
About the author
About the American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM):The American Academy of HIV Medicine stands as the nation's foremost independent organization of healthcare professionals committed to excellence in HIV care and prevention. The Academy's membership of practitioners and credentialed clinicians manage the health of most people living with or at risk for HIV in the United States.
About the Editor-in-Chief:
Carolyn Chu, MS, MSc, AAHIVS is the Chief Clinical Officer/Primary Investigator of the National Clinician Consultation Center, a federally supported educational resource program founded in 1993 to offer low barrier, person-centered guidance on HIV, hepatitis, and substance use. Dr. Chu completed a Family Medicine residency and clinical research fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and previously served as Medical Director for a large network of community health centers in New York City. She is a UCSF Professor of
Clinical Family and Community Medicine and provides health care at San Francisco General Hospital's Family Health Center.
