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This concise, clinically focused pocket guide offers a complete overview of HIV in the older patient and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of HIV within this subgroup. The easily accessible text offers infectious disease specialists and other health care professionals with an excellent quick reference tool, with full color tables and figures enhancing the text further. HIV is a chronic disease that affects the immune system, leading to AIDS. As treatments have progressed and patients with HIV are living longer a new aspect has to be taken in to consideration when treating HIV and other conditions. Comorbidities are rife within older adults with HIV, as many of the treatments for HIV cause long-term side effects, such as heart conditions and cancer. Special consideration must be taken to ensure no toxic drug-drug interactions between treatments.

Infectious Diseases --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- HIV infections --- Treatment. --- HIV (Viruses) infections --- HTLV-III infections --- HTLV-III-LAV infections --- Human T-lymphotropic virus III infections --- Lentivirus infections --- Sexually transmitted diseases --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Infectious diseases.

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Growth of beech (Fagus sylvatica) and oak (Quercus petraea and Quercus robur), two important forest species in Flanders, is predicted to be impacted by climate change. As future climate conditions are expected to further magnify drought stress, our study focuses on the effects of drought on growth of both species and on whether species diversity influences these effects. Using a large data set from the ICP-Forests program, we modelled growth using a mixed model approach to relate the Basal Area Increment of beech and oaks between 1990 and 2015 to diversity, climate and other factors. Furthermore, we investigated the role of diversity on growth of beech and oak in wet and dry years. Furthermore, we investigated the role of diversity on growth of beech and oak in wet and dry years. Finally, we analyzed the effects of species identity and species diversity on tree growth stability to a single drought event. To assess growth stability, we applied the concepts of resistance (the degree of change caused by a disturbance), recovery and resilience (a measure of the rate of subsequent recovery) to our data. Our results indicated a strong influence of climatic variables on tree growth of both species. They further showed that beech performs better in mixtures than in monocultures, and that both beech and oak trees perform better in wet compared to dry conditions. Our results also revealed that beech shows a higher growth resistance than oaks, while oaks show better recovery and resilience. Additionally, both species showed higher resilience in monocultures compared to mixtures. Our findings confirm the positive role of diversity on beech tree growth but dispute its capacity to buffer future adverse climatic effects on tree growth.