Management of Occupational and Nonoccupational HIV Exposure
Introduction
- 2.1 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide in 2015[UNAIDS 2016]
- ~ 50,000 in United States[CDC 2014]
- Biomedical prevention/use of antiretroviral agents to prevent at-risk HIV-negative individuals from becoming newly infected important adjuvant to behavioral risk-reduction interventions
- Strategies for biomedical prevention:
- Treatment as prevention
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis
- Postexposure prophylaxis
In 2015, 2.1 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide,[UNAIDS 2016] and approximately 50,000 of these transmissions occur in the United States.[CDC 2014] In isolation, behavioral risk-reduction interventions have had limited success in reducing HIV incidence,[...
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