CDC releases detailed guidelines for PEP use. Agency focuses on nonoccupational exposure.
While post-exposure prophylaxis has been available to medical employees and first responders for years, public health officials routinely have dismissed the possibility of extending PEP to the general public, citing the inefficiency of its use. That philosophy has changed. For the first time, the CDC has provided a detailed blueprint for how clinicians might recommend nPEP among patients who might have been exposed to HIV within the previous 72 hours.
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