HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis Recommendations

HIV postexposure prophylaxis: new recommendations.

A lthough the average risk of acquiring HIV infection after percutaneous exposure to HIV-infected blood is only 0.3%, health care workers welcomed the news that postexposure prophylaxis with zidovudine (AZT) can reduce this risk by as much as 79.0%. Recommendations from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been revised to take into account the potential for greater benef...

German-Austrian recommendations for HIV postexposure prophylaxis.

HIV postexposure prophylaxis for Special Forces soldiers.

Exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a recognized occupational hazard to healthcare personnel. The virus also presents an operational hazard to deployed Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel. Management guidelines for work related exposure to HIV mainly deal with healthcare workers in a first world hospital environment. Formal guidelines for postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) regar...

HIV antiretroviral postexposure prophylaxis: a cautionary note.

Antiretroviral therapy can be used in 3 ways to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV infection: (1) to reduce an infected person's viral burden below a critical threshold; (2) as preexposure prophylaxis for people with persistent high-risk be-havior(s); and (3) as postexposure pro-phylaxis (PEP) to be used after occupational needlesticks or sexual or other nonoccupational risks [1]. The first...

World Health Organization Guidelines on Postexposure Prophylaxis for HIV: Recommendations for a Public Health Approach.

The 2014 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) developed recommendations for PEP irrespective of exposure source in recognition of the need to simplify eligibility assessment and prescribing practices. Traditionally, separate PEP guidelines have been developed according to exposure type, with difference guidelines for occupational exposure, nonoccupationa...