The availability of effective drugs to treat HIV (highly active antiretro­viral therapy, or HAART) has brought a dramatic decline in HIV-related complications and the number of people whose HIV infection pro­gressed to AIDS.

HAART has not been universally successful, however: some people don’t adhere to the treatment, some have taken HIV drugs extensively and are now resistant, some cannot tolerate the drugs, and some people simply seem to have bad luck. This chapter deals with the classical complications of HIV infection.

More on the topic The availability of effective drugs to treat HIV (highly active antiretro­viral therapy, or HAART) has brought a dramatic decline in HIV-related complications and the number of people whose HIV infection pro­gressed to AIDS.:

1. What is HIV counselling?
2. A person with HIV infection is confronted with questions about med­ical care that are as confusing as they are important.
3. HIV-associated dementia complex (AIDS dementia complex) or HIV dementia
4. Nearly everyone with HIV infection has, to varying extents and at dif­ferent times, reacted to the disease with anger, depression, uncertainty, fatigue, fear, and guilt.
5. Natural history of HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections in developing countries
6. The treatment of HIV infection can be largely divided into: (i) specific antiviral agents that inhibit viral replication, (ii) measures that either treat or prevent (prophylaxis) its complications — namely opportunistic infections and tumours.
7. Common HIV Therapies and the Heart
8. Peripheral nerve disorders in HIV infection
9. Voluntary counselling and HIV testing
10. Twenty years after the first antibody test for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) became available in Western coun­tries.