Management of Occupational and Nonoccupational HIV Exposure

  • Author: Christopher B. Hurt, MD (More Info)
  • Editors In Chief: Daniel R. Kuritzkes, MD; Joseph J. Eron, Jr., MD
  • Last Reviewed: 8/1/18 (What's New)

Summary

  • 2.1 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide in 2015[UNAIDS 2016]
  • Biomedical prevention/use of antiretroviral agents to prevent at-risk HIV-negative individuals from becoming newly infected important adjuvant to behavioral risk-reduction interventions

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