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Clinician's Guide to HIV and Hepatitis A guide for clinicians caring for patients with HIV and hepatitis co-infection.  The guide includes information related to screening, treatment, prevention and patient education, covering HIV and heptatitis A, B, and C co-infection.  (Feb 2010)
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Sources Bristol-Myers Squibb. (2007, February). Re: Important Information Regarding Baraclude (entecavir) in Patients Co-Infected with HIV and HBV. Department of Health and Human Services. (April 30, 2007). Supplement to the Guidelines of the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents. Available: http://AIDSinfo.nih.gov. McMahon M, Jilek B, Brennan T, Shen L, Zhou Y, Bhat S, et al. (2007, February) The Anti-Hepatitis B Drug Entecavir Inhibits HIV-1 Replication and Selects HIV-1 Variants Resistant to Antiretroviral Drugs. 14th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Los Angeles. Abstract 136LB. Additional Resources Koziel, M.J., & Peters, M.G. (2007). Viral hepatitis and HIV infection. The New England Journal of Medicine, 356, 1445-1454.

Hepatitis Toolkit for the Primary Care Provider
Includes algorithms for screening and management, and helpful advice for patients undergoing treatment.
Prepared by the AETC NRC Primary Care Management for the HIV/AIDS Provider Workgroup, Florida/Caribbean AETC; Mountain-Plains AETC; Delta Region AETC and AETC National Resource Center
Authors:  Ronald Wilcox, MD; Suzanne Jed, RN and Susa Coffey, MD

HEP C: Inside and Out
A 14-minute educational video that provides an overview of this important public health problem. Through testimonies from those living with HCV and health care providers, the video provides a compelling overview of HCV infection. Targeted to people incarcerated in jails, prisons, and community corrections programs, as well as staff members in those facilities, the primary goal is to raise awareness of the disease. To order visit: www.awarenessalliance.org.
Prepared in 2005 by Mountain Plains AETC; Hep C Connection; Center for Research Strategies and Little Voice

The following tools are available from the AETC National Resource Center:
(under hepatitis coinfection > videos)

• Communicable Diseases: Are You at Risk? A Videotape Initiative to Increase Inmate Testing of HIV, Hepatitis B and C and Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  Date: 12/2004
  Source: New York/New Jersey AETC
  
• Caring Inside The Wall: HIV Treatment in the Correctional Setting
  Date: 2001
  Source: Northwest AETC
• Management of HIV/Hepatitis C Co-Infection: A Roundtable
  Date: 2005
  Source: Northwest AETC

Clinical Manual for Management of the HIV-Infected Adult, 2006 Edition
Hepatitis B Infection Chapter
Hepatitis C Infection Chapter

AIDSinfo - A service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides information about federally approved treatment guidelines for HIV and AIDS and opportunistic infections. 

Care of Patients Coinfected with HIV-HCV: New Consensus Guidelines from an International Panel

Guidelines for Laboratory Testing and Result Reporting of Antibody to Hepatitis C Virus

 

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