Important HIV/AIDS Guideline Update

To view as webpage... click here.       www.matec.info Midwest AIDS Training & Education Center (MATEC) The Midwest's Leading Resource for HIV/AIDS Education and Information for Health Care Professionals and Organizations.  Serving Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota,  Missouri and Wisconsin.  Important HIV Guidelines Update for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV/Infected Adults and Adolescents. Released by the Centers for Disease Control on March 23, 2009 Dear Fred, Today (March 23, 2009), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is posting online the 2009 Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents: Recommendations from CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (officially published April 10, 2009 as MMWR Volume 58, Reports and Recommendations No. 4). This publication will replace the draft version of the Guidelines posted electronically on June 18, 2008 at www.aidsinfo.nih.gov.  The purpose of this letter is to alert you of the dissemination of the Guidelines and to describe its content, as well as provide information on where to obtain copies.  A parallel version of these guidelines for HIV-infected infants and children will be forthcoming shortly under a separate announcement.    In the United States, the incidence of HIV-associated opportunistic infections (OIs) has declined dramatically, largely due to the advent of simpler, more potent, and less toxic antiretroviral therapy.  However, we should not be falsely reassured that OIs are soon to become a thing of the past. Despite declines in their incidence and major improvements in their prevention and treatment, OIs remain a leading cause of hospitalization and death for persons living with HIV infection. Because most of the existing clinical workforce was trained in OI management during an earlier era when these infections were more prevalent, it is critical that resources such as these guidelines be available for newer clinicians who may have had less experience with these infections but are likely to encounter them during their career.    These Guidelines are intended for use by clinicians and other health-care providers, HIV-infected patients, and policy makers in the United States.  They were developed by a panel of more than 140 experts from the U.S. government and academic institutions. These Guidelines combine and replace two separate MMWR publications: the 2002 Guidelines for preventing opportunistic infections among HIV-infected persons: recommendations of the US Public Health Service and the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the 2004 Treating opportunistic infections among HIV-infected adults and adolescents: recommendations from CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the HIV Medicine Association/ Infectious Diseases Society of America. The 2009 Guidelines address OIs that occur in the United States and five OIs that may be acquired during international travel.  Topic areas covered for each OI include: prevention of exposure, prevention of disease by chemoprophylaxis and vaccination, discontinuation of primary prophylaxis after immune reconstitution, treatment of disease, monitoring for adverse effects of treatment and disease, management of treatment failure, prevention of disease recurrence, discontinuation of secondary prophylaxis, and special considerations during pregnancy and with regard to immune reconstitution inflammatory syndromes. For each OI, a small group with subject matter expertise reviewed the literature for new information since the previous guidelines' publication and proposed revised recommendations at a meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in May 2007. Following these presentations and discussion, the revised guidelines were further reviewed and approved by NIH, CDC, and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).    The new Guidelines will be available on March 23, 2009, at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_rr.html (MMWR website) or http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/Guidelines/ (AIDSInfo website). We could not accomplish this task without the collaboration of NIH and the HIVMA, as well as the many persons who volunteered to participate in the development of these Guidelines.  We hope you will find them a valuable source of information to maximize prevention strategies and to promptly recognize, accurately diagnose, and properly treat and manage OIs in order to ensure that HIV- infected patients continue receiving the highest quality care possible in the United States.   Sincerely,  Richard J. Wolitski, Ph.D. Acting Director Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention Join Our List Forward email     Email Marketing by Midwest AIDS Training & Education Center | 1640 W. Roosevelt Road | Suite 511 (M/C 779) | Chicago | IL | 60608

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Here are today's news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story. CNN's Castellanos falsely claimed Dems "gave" bonuses to AIG execs Advancing a false Republican accusation, CNN contributor Alex Castellanos falsely claimed that Democrats "gave" AIG executives bonuses. In fact, the economic recovery bill did not create the right for AIG -- or any company -- to pay bonuses. Rather, AIG reportedly disclosed that it had entered into agreements to pay these bonuses more than a year ago, and the special inspector for the TARP program has testified that the Bush administration Treasury Department knew about the AIG bonus contracts and did not insist on their abrogation as a condition of AIG's receiving bailout money. Read More Scarborough shills GE stock on GE-owned MSNBC Joe Scarborough promoted General Electric stock on MSNBC's Morning Joe without noting that GE is the parent company of NBC Universal, the owner of MSNBC. Read More Bush missing from USA Today/Gallup poll response options to question about AIG bonuses A USA Today/Gallup poll question about who was to blame for the AIG bonuses left out the Bush administration as a suggested response, despite the administration's decision to give AIG billions in aid without requiring that the company withhold the bonuses. Read More On Fox, Cavuto and Levin falsely claimed Obama administration wants to limit executive pay for all companies Neil Cavuto and Mark Levin falsely claimed the Obama administration "want[s] to control executive pay" for companies that haven't received bailouts. Earlier that day, Robert Gibbs said of such a proposal, "[T]here are not plans to do something broad like that." Read More Dobbs falsely claimed Pelosi said "immigration law enforcement is, quote-unquote, 'un-American" On his radio show, Lou Dobbs asked his guest for his "reaction" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "saying last week that enforcement in the workplace, immigration law enforcement is, quote-unquote, 'un-American.' " In fact, Pelosi criticized as "un-American" immigration raids that separate undocumented parents from their documented children, not "immigration law enforcement." Read More You can help support our work; become a volunteer media monitor, or donate to Media Matters for America.

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"After an uncharacteristic gaffe on 'The Tonight Show' and an unfortunate case of the giggles on '60 Minutes,' President Obama had a lot riding on his Tuesday night press conference. The president largely stayed on message, using the hour to focus on the economy, the budget, and his anger (even if was delayed) at those darn AIG bonuses."