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How do you know if your needlestick prevention program is working? A decrease in injuries is a good barometer but sometimes that could reflect a lack of reporting rather than an improvement in safety.
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With more than 25 years experience as a critical care nurse, Barbara Jordan, RN, MSN, CCRN, could read the bleak signs and symptoms of the patient before her like a map to a destination she had been before.
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It is no small sign of hard-earned wisdom that the mother who has lost a loved one to a health care-associated infection (HAI) doesn't want to be cast in angry hues, decrying the failure of a health system that took her 27-year-old son Josh along with some 100,000 other patients felled by infection in 2006.
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Investigators recently studied the scope of rapid HIV testing, finding surprisingly limited use in urban hospitals and HIV clinics in the United States.1,2,3
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For correctional settings in many states the biggest obstacles to implementing an opt-out, rapid HIV testing program are state laws regarding HIV testing and counseling.
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The scourge of HIV/AIDS, which continues to affect the African-American community disproportionately, highlights the importance of a comprehensive strategy to address the U.S. epidemic, federal public health officials recently stressed.
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HIV/AIDS researchers continue to find strong evidence that using rapid HIV testing in settings likely to capture high-risk populations is wise public health policy.
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The combination of rapid HIV testing and brief prevention messages could be a model for use in jails which house a high-risk population.
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One of President Barack Obama's first actions as president was to lift the ban on federal funds for international groups that perform abortions or provide information or counseling on abortion.
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Mathematical models (a case reproduction number/stochastic model and a long-term epidemic dynamics/deterministic transmission model) were used to explore the effect of testing for all people 15 or older for HIV and initiating ARV therapy immediately after diagnosis.
