New federal guidelines for managing occupational exposures to HIV

The guidelines, published online in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology , the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America , emphasize the immediate use of a PEP regimen containing three or more antiretroviral drugs after any occupational exposure to HIV.

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