Seattle Treatment Education Project
Updated Treatment Guidelines Address Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women

February 22, 2002

In 1996, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Kaiser Family Foundation convened a panel on "Clinical Practices for the Treatment of HIV" to develop guidelines for the clinical management of HIV-infected adults, adolescents and pregnant women. There are separate HIV antiviral treatment guidelines, one on treating adults and adolescents and a second on treating pregnant women, have been updated, incorporating the ever-evolving learning about how to more effectively treat HIV disease with combination antiretroviral therapies. Among the major changes in each are the following:

Adult/Adolescent Guidelines

  • New text on initiating therapy in patients with asymptomatic HIV infection;
  • An expanded section on adverse reactions to HAART; and
  • A new section on prevention counseling for patients with HIV infection.
Pregnant Women
  • New information on combination antiretroviral therapy and pregnancy outcome; and
  • A revision in "Antiretroviral Drug Resistance and Resistance Testing in Pregnancy."

To refer to the current updates on the web site version of the Guidelines, please contact: http://hivatis.org/trtgdlns.html.


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This article was provided by Seattle Treatment Education Project, and is a part of the publication STEP Ezine.


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