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August 31, 2009

CDC Publishes New Opportunistic Infection Guidelines for HIV-Positive Children

"Revised guidelines regarding the prevention and treatment of AIDS-related opportunistic infections (OIs) among HIV-infected children were published August 26 online in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. A panel of more than 30 government and nongovernment pediatric HIV and infectious disease experts developed the guidelines, which both update and combine a 2002 and 2004 publication on the treatment of opportunistic infections in children."

Read more in POZ, August 31, 2009.

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