Advances on the AIDS Horizon 2019 (2 contact hours)

Author: Mary Weinstein, MS, MT(ASCP), and Kimberly C. Stanley, Ed.D., MT(ASCP)
Publisher: Anderson Continuing Education
Date Published: 2019
Pages: 26 plus 6 for FL laws on HIV/AIDS
Cover Type: Loose-Leaf Spiral Binding
Expiration Date: 12/31/2021

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

Read about:

• The history of HIV
• HIV life cycle
• Stages of HIV
• Transmission of HIV
• 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 nonoccupational exposure
• The Future: Ending the Epidemic