HIV Opportunistic Infection Guidelines, Updated

These guidelines, last revised in 2009, are comprehensive, exhaustively referenced, and authoritative.

Experts at the National Institutes of Health, the CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America have just updated their Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents, which was last revised in 2009. Like the previous versions, these guidelines are comprehensive, exhaustively referenced, and authoritative. Several summary tables, as well as a clear and useful schedule of recommended immunizations, are provided at the end of the document.

Notable changes include the following:

Broadened discussion of when to start HIV therapy in the setting of various opportunistic infections (OIs) — in particular, tuberculosis (TB)
Updates on treatment of hepatitis B and C (including a sugge…

Reviewing Author

Paul E. Sax, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardGilead Sciences; GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV; Merck; Shionogi

Grant/Research SupportNIH; Gilead Sciences; ViiV

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Paul E. Sax, MD

Disclosures

Consultant/Advisory BoardGilead Sciences; GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV; Merck; Shionogi

Grant/Research SupportNIH; Gilead Sciences; ViiV

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HIV Opportunistic Infection Guidelines, Updated

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