Abstract
The future and great challenge of HIV/AIDS psychiatry: a blending of medicine and psychiatry in a model of unified care
Highlights
The involvement of psychiatrists in the diagnosis and treatment of AIDS and HIV infection is essential, as this disease binds both internal medicine and psychiatry together like few other diseases have the potential to do
The course of HIV infection is associated with a variety of emotional, cognitive, and neurological disturbances which may be caused by premorbid psychiatric disorders; psychological stress, opportunistic infections or neoplasms; or by medications used in the treatment of HIV
Psychiatrists must be prepared to manage the complex medical issues that may lead to central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction, assess and monitor patients for the neuropsychiatric consequences of HIV, aggressively treat substance abuse and other psychiatric disorders, manage the co-administration of psychotropic drugs and antiretroviral agents, review antiretroviral regimens for agents that cause CNS side effects; facilitate the appropriate care of HIV patients with severe mental illness, promote treatment adherence, and respond to complex ethical and medical issues
Summary
The involvement of psychiatrists in the diagnosis and treatment of AIDS and HIV infection is essential, as this disease binds both internal medicine and psychiatry together like few other diseases have the potential to do.
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