inPractice® - Primary Care Essentials

Infections that were rarely seen outside tropical settings are now common throughout the world due to increased travel, migration, and globalization, and present a risk to HIV-infected persons
Primary care providers should be knowledgable on the most effective methods of exposure prevention and prophylaxis
Most common parasitic opportunistic infection seen in HIV-infected patients is Pneumocystis pneumonia, for which sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim is the preferred option for prophylaxis and treatment^{[CDC OI; Panel 2008b]}