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Strategies to avoid HIV transmission: new CDC guidelines.(News)
New guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are designed to help health care providers promote strategies to prevent HIV transmission.
The guidelines come on the heels of a CDC report of increasing HIV transmission rates among intravenous drug users. That report indicated that 2,514 people who injected drugs were diagnosed with HIV in 2000, a 5% increase over 1999 (MMWR 52[27]:634-36, 2003).
The guidelines--a result of collaboration between the CDC, the National Institutes of Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the HIV Medicine Association ...
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