News in brief Daily HIV prevention pill recommended for high-risk patients, USPSTF says ‘Currently, many people who could benefit from a daily HIV prevention pill are not taking one,’ says Dodson Thompson, DO, the AOA’s representative on the USPSTF. June 19, 2019Wednesday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email A new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) says clinicians should offer pre-exposure prophylaxis, or a daily prevention pill, to patients at high risk of acquiring HIV. Patients at a higher risk of getting HIV include those who: Share needles when injecting drugs Have a sexual partner who has HIV Have sex without a condom with someone at high risk of having HIV “These new recommendations will go a step further toward reducing the nearly 40,000 new cases of HIV the U.S. has every year,” says Dodson Thompson, DO, the AOA’s representative on the USPSTF. “Currently, many people who could benefit from a daily HIV prevention pill are not taking one. We’re hopeful that the new recommendations will decrease barriers to access and improve education for this patient population.” In its new recommendation, USPSTF maintains its previous guidelines that adolescents and adults age 15 to 65 and pregnant patients be screened for HIV. To learn more, read the full recommendation or this summary from the Associated Press. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleNIH selects two osteopathic trainees for its Medical Research Scholars Program Next articleKCU-COM earns 10-year exceptional outcome accreditation
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