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Postexposure Prophylaxis: Dealing With Old Guidelines

The patient responded, “With all due respect to the guidelines, in the current era when there are increasingly well-tolerated medications, why would you use a regimen that included only 2 NRTIs without a third drug in any setting where there is a risk of HIV transmission?”

Published
13 March 2013
From
Clinical Care Options (requires registration)
PEP
Australia: Second man denied PEP from hospital

Another gay man has come forward claiming he was unable to access HIV-preventative medication from his local health centre due to ignorance of proper procedure from medical staff.

Published
23 January 2013
From
Sydney Star Observer
Behaviour change interventions
Awareness rises following PEP communications

Gay men’s awareness of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) significantly improved in Western Australia, following implementation of a communications strategy, according to a study recently published in BMC

Published
14 January 2013
By
Roger Pebody
PEP
Spanish researchers urge more awareness campaigns on PEP

Only a third of gay men and one in six heterosexual people who came forward for a rapid HIV community testing programme were aware of post-exposure prophylaxis

Published
02 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
New report: evaluating HIV treatment as prevention in the European context

The report concludes that antiretroviral treatment has well-documented benefits for reducing the transmission of HIV, and has had a major impact on reducing HIV acquisition among children born to HIV positive mothers. However, the policy of treatment as prevention cannot be universally applied to all persons diagnosed with HIV without understanding whether there is a benefit for the individual’s health.

Published
07 June 2012
From
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) press release
PEP
Poor adherence to HIV PEP after sexual assault

Adherence to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) among victims of sexual assault is poor, according to the results of a meta-analysis and systematic literature review published in Sexually

Published
16 March 2012
By
Michael Carter
PEP
Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, the World’s Most Outdated HIV Guidelines, and What To Do About Them

Every time I cover HIV prevention in a lecture, it’s always kind of embarrassing to cite the “official” post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) guidelines.

Published
06 March 2012
From
Journal Watch
PEP
Raltegravir/Truvada HIV PEP regimen well tolerated with no infections after its use

Raltegravir could have a “useful” role in HIV post-exposure prophylaxis, according to investigators from the US writing in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency

Published
31 January 2012
By
Michael Carter
PEP
PEP guidelines for the UK revised to take account of undetectable viral load

New UK guidelines for the use of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) following sexual exposure have been published in the December issue of the International Journal of STD and AIDS.

Published
21 December 2011
By
Roger Pebody
PEP
Ongoing risk behaviour likely cause of high HIV incidence rate among gay men treated with PEP

HIV incidence is high among gay men who use post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), investigators from Amsterdam report in the online edition of AIDS. Overall, users of PEP were

Published
20 December 2011
By
Michael Carter
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