This 8th Edition of the AIDSinfo Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms continues to provide people living with HIV, their families and their friends,health care professionals, and students a roadmap to understand HIV.
Key features of the latest edition of the Glossary include the following:
• A new feature!—images to illustrate several terms, including each step in the HIV life cycle, the various types of viral tropism, and the stages of clinical research.
• Updated and new definitions for more than 700 terms used to describe HIV, the infection it causes, and strategies used to diagnose,treat, and prevent HIV/AIDS.
The terms included in the Glossary represent the vocabulary of HIV used in a variety of federal resources, including federally approved medical practice guidelines and published results from HIV-related research studies.
Term definitions are based on information from government sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In general, terms and images in the Glossary are presented in the context of HIV/AIDS.
For example, the definition and image for adherence refers to the use of
antiretroviral HIV drugs. AIDSinfo consulted with HIV experts to ensure
the accuracy of definitions and images presented in the Glossary.
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