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The continuing state and federal mandates requiring hospitals to report healthcare associated infections threatens to outstrip their original justification, raising questions about whether the labor-intensive efforts will result in true reductions of HAIs, warned Patricia Stone, PhD, FAAN, professor of nursing and director of the Center for Health Policy at Columbia University in New York City.
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In response to recommendations for collecting more HIV data from transgender people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is revising the national system for reporting HIV cases to capture sex assigned at birth and current gender identity.
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Raltegravir (RAL) received FDA approval in 2007 and is now used in treatment of both treatment-experienced and treatment-naïve patients.
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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is a common opportunistic infection (OI) in AIDS patients.
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The world has well-embraced antiretroviral treatment (ART) for the prevention of HIV transmission between women and their newborn babies through transmission during pregnancy or nursing. And these strategies have proven to be a huge success.
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The news for HIV care and treatment funding looked particularly bleak by August 2011, when the waiting list for AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) topped 8,600 people and the government's near-miss on a federal credit default resulted in legislation that could be devastating to low income people who are living with HIV/AIDS.
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For nearly 20 years the Iowa Department of Public Health has provided HIV/AIDS prevention services to people at risk of infection across more than a half dozen cities.
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Young black men who have sex with men (MSM) had a 48% increase in new HIV infections between 2006 and 2009, according to the latest data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of Atlanta, GA.