Prevention of HIV transmission.
Primary care physicians continue to play an important role in preventing HIV transmission by targeting messages to their high-risk patients. The risk of HIV transmission cannot be eliminated entirely; however, clinicians have a variety of prevention interventions at their disposal. Behavioral and therapeutic interventions offered in a client-centered environment have the greatest chance of success. Patients can benefit from individualized prevention plans that decrease risk by treating drug addiction and by modifying sexual and drug-taking behaviors. The risk of HIV infection in health care workers can be reduced by strict adherence to universal precautions and the use of postexposure antiretroviral therapy.
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Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D018890:Chemoprevention; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control; D008297:Male; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control; D011247:Pregnancy; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous