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Perspectives on New Recommendations for Nonoccupational HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis
Roland C. Merchant, MD, MPH;
Kenneth H. Mayer, MD
JAMA. 2005;293:2407-2409.
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In an important initial step for providing advice to US clinicians on this complex subject, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released national guidelines for provision of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis (HIV NPEP).1 In the guidelines, the CDC defines nonoccupational exposure as
any direct mucosal, percutaneous, or intravenous contact with potentially infectious body fluids that occurs outside perinatal or occupational situations (eg, health care, sanitation, public safety, or laboratory employment). Potentially infectious body fluids are blood, semen, vaginal secretions, rectal secretions, breast milk, or other body fluid that is contaminated with visible blood.
These guidelines, which were constructed through a multiyear consultation process, endorse and make recommendations for the use of antiretroviral medications following sexual, injection drug, and other nonoccupational exposures to HIV.
The new CDC guidelines replace a 1998 CDC advisory to clinicians on . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Author Affiliations: Departments of Emergency Medicine (Dr Merchant), Medicine (Dr Mayer), and Community Health (Drs Merchant and Mayer), Brown Medical School, Providence, RI.
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