CDC: Prevention of Opportunistic Infections/HIV/Draft Guidelines Available

Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession

June 1999

  Quick Summary: On May 21, 1999 the CDC published for public comment a seventy-nine page document titled "1999 USPHS/IDSA Guidelines for the Prevention of Opportunistic Infections in Persons Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus," prepared by representatives of the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and additional representatives of Federal agencies, universities, professional societies and community organizations.

  The draft document is available on the World Wide Web site of the AIDS Treatment and Information Service:     http://www.hivatis.org

   According to the CDC, requests for hard copies of the document may be submitted to:

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Mailstop E-49

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA 30333

telephone (404) 639-2072

fax (404) 639-2007.

According to the CDC, the contact address for further information is:

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention

National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Mailstop E-49

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, GA 30333

telephone (404) 639-2072

fax (404) 639-2007.

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