The Public Health Agency of Canada is pleased to share with you the electronic release of the HIV Screening and Testing Guide HIV Screening and Testing Guide in English and French.
Expanded HIV testing guidelines were announced in the BCMJ 2011 by Vancouver Coastal Health, Providence Health Care, and the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.
Read the MHO letter on the delegate follow up process, for physicians in walk-in clinics.
ACP Recommends that clinicians adopt routine screening for HIV and encourage patients to be tested.
When a standard HIV lab test is positive it is essential to provide clients with post-test information and follow-up. Read BCCDC guidelines on post-test discussion following a positive result.
The BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS has produced guidelines to support care and treatment programs for people living with HIV.
If your patient has a known risk you are arguably shifting arguably the continuum from ‘screening’ to ‘case finding’. As with other conditions, some counselling may benefit these patients.
This article gives detailed recommendations on treatment, including when and what to start, monitoring and when to change.
