Partner acceptance of health department notification of HIV exposure, South Carolina.
Since Claude did not have HIV, there was no risk of HIV exposure.
Also, insufficient evidence exists to support recommending a three-drug regimen for all HIV exposures.
The patient-care responsibilities of an exposed person do not need to be modified, based solely on an HIV exposure, to prevent transmission to patients.
It is also important to consider how programs might target those at highest risk of HIV exposure in order to provide PrEP.
The hospital has written letters to all patients cared for by James warning them of their possible HIV exposure.
The majority of persons who seek care after a possible HIV exposure do so because of failure to initiate or maintain effective risk-reduction behaviors.
Persons with a single, recent nonoccupational HIV exposure.
Further guidance on nonoccupational HIV exposure is available (55).
Further guidance on occupational HIV exposure is available (54).