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| This activity is intended for HIV/AIDS physicians and nurses. |
| Sponsor: |
| This activity is sponsored by AHC Media. |
| Accreditation: |
| AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. |
| Credit Designation: |
This activity has been approved for 1.25 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 14749, for 1.25 Contact Hours.
Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years.
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| Faculty |
Editor
Melinda Young
Senior Managing Editor
Gary Evans
AHC Media
Executive Editor
Coles McKagen
AHC Media
Board Member and Physician Reviewer
Morris Harper, MD, AAHIVS
Vice President
Chief Medical Officer
HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis Associates
Waynesburg, PA
Board Member and Nurse Planner
Kay Ball, RN, PhD, MSA, CNOR, FAAN
Perioperative Consultant/Educator
K & D Medical
Lewis Center, OH
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| Subjects: |
- Can 'seek and treat' strategy stop HIV epidemic among injection drug users?
- Disease progression speeds up over time
- Improvement in early diagnosis, some still late
- The needlestick that changed her life
- Thinner: Trying to solve the lipoatrophy puzzle
- Unique approach to HIV research in drug users
- FDA draft guidance on Hepatitis C/HIV coinfection
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| Objectives: |
- Identify the particular clinical, legal, or scientific issues related to AIDS patient care
- Describe how those issues affect nurses, physicians, hospitals, and clinics
- Cite practical solutions to the problems associated with those issues
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| Financial Disclosure: |
Editor Melinda Young, Senior Managing Editor Gary Evans, and Executive Editor Coles McKagen, report no relationships with companies related to this field of study. Physician Reviewer Morris Harper, MD, AAHIVS reports consulting work with Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Gilead Sciences, Abbott Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Nurse Planner Kay Ball, RN, PhD, MSA, CNOR, FAAN is a consultant and stockholder with Steris Corp. and is on the speaker's bureau for the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses.
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