Clinical Manual of HIV Psychiatry, 1e

Luis F. Pereira
APA
434 pages
ISBN: 9798894550978
February 2026

When the AIDS pandemic emerged in 1981, the diagnosis of AIDS was considered terminal. Over the four decades since then, advances in medicine have transformed HIV/AIDS into chronic and manageable—if still severe—condition. Despite this success, the annual incidence of HIV remains high, with 1.3 million new HIV infections worldwide and 40,000 in the United States. The chapters in this illuminating and concise new manual suggest that this continued high incidence is driven at least in part a lack of a biopsychosocial approach to HIV prevention and care. The authors suggest that destigmatizing mental illness and integrating psychiatric aspects into multispecialty medical treatment, research, and public health policy are essential for the next level of meaningful progress in both prevention of HIV transmission and in the care of persons infected with and affected by HIV.