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It is safe to say various professionals in healthcare are expected to participate in activities beyond their original area of expertise.
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While IPs would no doubt like to see even higher numbers, one effect of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services 2008 reimbursement cuts is that more hospital senior administration and clinical leaders are preaching the gospel of infection prevention.
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A proposed National Quality Forum measure may standardize the way hospitals calculate their health care worker influenza immunization rates.
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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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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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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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Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PCP) is a common opportunistic infection (OI) in AIDS patients.
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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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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.
