New title from NAM!
The definitive guide to HIV Transmission & Testing 

HIV Transmission & Testing is your practical guide to the complexities surrounding HIV transmission routes, risks and testing. 

Ideal for anyone whose work involves giving information and advice on HIV transmission risk, or on taking an HIV test.

Offering you a clear and objective discussion of these complex issues, HIV Transmission & Testing will inform your work and enable you to answer difficult questions with accuracy and authority.

Also ideal for helping to prepare training sessions, as a reference resource, or just to inform your work.

No other UK resource provides such a comprehensive scientific overview of these issues in such a readable and easy-to-use format.

“Incredibly helpful for dealing with anxious patients and for providing clear information to newly diagnosed, friends and families.” Liz Hodges, Sexual Health Adviser, Newham University Hospital NHS Trust

“An excellent easy-to-read and practical summary of complex areas of HIV research and knowledge… Greatly welcomed by the HIV sector.” Dr Valerie Delpech, Consultant Epidemiologist & Head of HIV and AIDS Reporting Section, Health Protection Agency

Topics include:

• Transmission routes
• Low risks, theoretical risks and impossible routes
• Impact of treatment on infectiousness
• Factors affecting transmission risk
• Risks of specific sexual activities
• Prevention methods

Plus:

• Types of test used and samples necessary
• Accuracy of tests, including window period, sensitivity, specificity
• Interpreting negative, positive and indeterminate results
• Social and legal issues

NB. HIV Transmission and Testing is written from a UK perspective. However the majority of the topics covered are universally applicable. Testing policies in other countries are also included.