Treatment Guidelines Get an Update

The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have updated the U.S. HIV treatment guidelines to highlight the prevention and treatment of several AIDS-related opportunistic infections, including warnings that the risks for some are boosted when traveling internationally. The revised guidelines also include a number of non-HIV-related illnesses that occur more often or cause more severe disease among HIVers, such as herpes, syphilis, human papillomavirus, hepatitis B and C, malaria, and tuberculosis.