Advances on the AIDS Horizon 2017 (2-hour)

Author: Mary Weinstein, MS, MT (ASCP)
Publisher: Anderson Continuing Education
Date Published: 2017
Pages: 26 plus 6 for Florida Laws on HIV/AIDS
Cover Type: Soft Cover
Expiration Date: 12/31/2020

This course is designed to satisfy the requirement that Florida clinical laboratory personnel earn one contact hour in HIV/AIDS.

Read about:

• The history of HIV
• HIV life cycle
• Stages of HIV
• Transmission
• HIV and AIDS in the United States
• Laboratory tests for HIV
• Other testing matters: Confidential, anonymous, mandated tests, and counseling
• Treatment
• Occupational HIV transmission and prevention among health care personnel
• Antiretroviral prophylaxis following exposure to HIV from sexual activity, intravenous drug use or other non-occupational exposure