HIV and OIs

Guidelines Are Released to Prevent Infections

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 4th, 1995

CDC, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) have released guidelines on preventing opportunistic infections in people with HIV.

Opportunistic infections can cause life-threatening illnesses in people with weakened immune systems. About 80 percent of all people with HIV eventually develop one or more of these infections, according to Henry Masur, M.D., chief of the NIH Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department.

"The guidelines are a milestone in providing up-to-date information to help medical practitioners better treat people with HIV," explains Masur, "thus increasing the quality...

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