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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in early December 2009 its final decision to cover Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection screening for Medicare beneficiaries who are at increased risk for the infection.
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HIV clinicians often work with patients who have such an overwhelming number of barriers to optimal treatment adherence that it's difficult to know where an adherence intervention should begin.
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Good news for prevention of HIV and other STDs as a new year dawns. The second-generation FC2 Female Condom is available for purchase in the United States, which gives American women a nonlatex, female-controlled option in disease protection.
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The authors describe a fatal case of H1N1 pandemic influenza A associated with pneumonia, which resulted in respiratory and renal failure in a 39-year-old HIV-positive woman.
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On Nov. 5, 2009, using expedited review procedures developed to support the President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), granted tentative approval for lamivudine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate fixed dose combination tablets, 300mg/300mg.
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Fatigue is such a common complaint among HIV patients that it's often ignored or expected in clinical care.
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Screening STD clinic patients especially men who have sex with men (MSM) for signs of an acute, highly transmissable stage of HIV infection could heighten detection and prevention efforts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Your next patient in the clinic examination room is a 22-year-old who has just delivered her first child three weeks ago.
