AIDS Alert Archives – April 1, 2007
April 1, 2007
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As population of HIV-infected refugees rises, providers need to give them special care
Health care providers in less populated cities and states are seeing increases in both their general immigrant populations and their HIV-infected immigrant populations. -
Adherence Strategies: Connecticut center uses home visits to improve adherence
Yale University researchers conducted a four-year adherence study in which the intervention included having a registered nurse and peer educator sit down with HIV-infected clients at their kitchen tables each week to discuss medication adherence challenges. -
Social Web site for persons with HIV launched in March
Often when people learn they are infected with HIV, they have little access to social support among others living with the disease. -
FDA Notifications
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Bristol-Myers Squibb are notifying healthcare professionals of revisions to the microbiology/Antiviral Activity and indications and usage/Description of Clinical Studies/Special Populations sections of the prescribing information for entecavir (Baraclude), a nucleoside analog used in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV). -
OSHA: Use rapid HIV test after HCW exposure
Hospitals and other medical facilities that do not use rapid HIV assays to test source patients after a blood exposure to a health care worker risk citations and fines by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Hospital Infection Control has learned. -
HIV Genotyping of Chronically Infected Patients
This study from the excellent group at University of California in San Diego had standard population-based HIV genotyping performed on plasma obtained from all antiretroviral (ARV)-naïve patients who received care in publicly funded clinics in San Diego County during the 2005 calendar year. -
AIDS Alert International: International Groups Charge INCB with Needlessly Impeding HIV Prevention
A new report says the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has used secrecy, old-world habits, and anti-science beliefs to discourage nations from preventing HIV infection through the use of needle exchange programs and other risk reduction efforts. -
AIDS Alert International: Body of research grows in support of male circumcision for HIV prevention
With the weight of two clinical trials in Uganda and Kenya showing that male circumcision can reduce HIV risk by about 60 percent, the World Health Organization (WHO) of Geneva, Switzerland, is evaluating the evidence in preparation for a possible public health recommendation and/or course of action.