This updated version includes a new section on Antiretroviral Drug Cost Table (Appendix C), and updates on Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in Treatment-Naive Patients, HIV-Infected Women, HIV/Hepatitis C Coinfection and more. You can also access this updated version through the AIDSinfo website at http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines.
Guidelines
Corrections to Guidelines
Slide presentations for these guidelines are available from the AETC National Resource Center.

CDC HIV/AIDS surveillance observes records and disseminates reports about new cases of HIV and AIDS. This updated slide set contains 33 slides.
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This updated slide set includes 28 slides.
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This analysis examines state Medicaid coverage of routine HIV screening and finds that currently, about half of states cover routine screening under their Medicaid programs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends routine HIV screening for all patients between the ages of 13 and 64, but routine screening is currently an optional Medicaid benefit, which states may choose to cover. The analysis includes a breakdown of which states cover routine screening and which states only cover medically necessary HIV screening.
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The Kaiser Permanente HIV Challenge aims to help health care providers nationwide improve health equity for people living with HIV by increasing access to HIV care and improving health outcomes. Kaiser Permanente challenges other private health care providers and community health clinics to increase the number of HIV-infected people getting treatment by sharing Kaiser Permanente’s toolkit of clinical best practices, tools, mentoring, training and health IT expertise.

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This meeting takes place on the second Friday of each month for 1 hour starting at 12pm PT, 1pm MT, 2pm CT and 3pm ET. The mission of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is to develop the capacity to safely and effectively treat chronic, common, and complex diseases in rural and underserved areas, and to monitor outcomes of this treatment. The HIV/AIDS TeleECHO Clinic unites a multidisciplinary team of experts in HIV/AIDS care at a central conferencing site with healthcare clinicians treating HIV/AIDS patients. Tom Donohoe, U.S.-Mexico Border Project Coordinator with the Pacific AETC will be the presenter for this event. Learning objectives include: Discussing the HIV epidemic along the U.S.-Mexico border; reviewing health care delivery systems in Mexico, including those for HIV services; facilitate continuity of care for HIV-infected patients returning to Mexico; and utilize 7 one-page bilingual fact sheets for Mexico and 6 Central American Countries.

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This event is part of a series of webinars that focus on cultural competency and HIV in marginalized/vulnerable populations. Some of the learning objectives include: describe the history of the patient-provider relationship in the United States; define health communication as it relates to the patient-provider interaction; state measures and better understand knowledge, attitudes and beliefs among health care providers toward patients with HIV; identify barriers to successful patient-provider communication and understand their impact on decision-making; state the importance of linguistically appropriate and culturally competent care for patients living with HIV and those at-risk for HIV; identify interventions for health care providers to better communicate with HIV patients. CE credit is available.

This free, two-part series, online training event will be presented by Angel I. Ribò PA-C, MPAS, Director of Clinical Affairs for Valley AIDS Council (VAC) in Harlingen, TX. VAC provides AIDS education training, technical assistance, and consultation services to direct clinical care providers, as well as provides HIV prevention services; HIV counseling, testing, and referral/linkage to care services; comprehensive primary medical care for persons living with HIV (PLWHA), and more. Some of the learning objectives include:

Part I: April 19, 2012 10:30 - 11:35 am CT (8:30 am PT/ 9:30 am MT/ 11:30 am ET)

* Identify the signs and symptoms of acute HIV

* Describe the goals of therapy for HIV infection

* Identify the obstacles that toxicities play in adherence

Part II: May 17, 2012 10:30 - 11:35 am CT (8:30 am PT/ 9:30 am MT/ 11:30 am ET)

* Identify the predictors of poor adherence

* Identify the predictors of virologic success

* Describe the CD4 levels for patient prophylaxis