Saturday, April 18, 2009

New Guidelines Released for HIV Opportunistic Infections

The first complete update in five years of the U.S. guidelines for preventing and treating HIV-associated opportunistic infections has been released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention in cooperation with the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). The new Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents apply state-of-the-art science and medicine to 29 infectious diseases of concern. More than 140 medical experts contributed their knowledge to this edition of the guidelines, released on April 10. These new guidelines can be viewed in either html or pdf formats: Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (html) or Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (pdf) 



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