This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of physicians, physician associates, nurses, pharmacists, and nurse practitioners.

At the conclusion of this activity, the learner will be better able to:

• Describe how a patient with acute HIV infection might present, and the initial screening test that should be done.
• Identify when antiretroviral therapy should be initiated in patients with human immunodeficiency virus.
• Outline some common antiretroviral therapy regimens.
• Summarize collaboration with interprofessional team members to ensure that high risk patients are being educated about and offered pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis.

Pharmacy Activity Type:
Disease/Drug Therapy Related

• Authors: Andres L. Mora Carpio
• Editors: Abdullah Adil
• Editors-In-Chief: Manouchkathe CassagnolKelli A. Kronsberg
  Chief Medical Reviewer: Andrew D. Nguyen
• Nurse Reviewer: Sandra Coleman
• Pharmacy Reviewer: Mark V. Pellegrini
• Physician Reviewer: Andrew D. Nguyen

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