The HHS HIV Program is here to support healthcare providers in delivering high-quality, patient-centered HIV care. Here you’ll find up-to-date clinical guidance, screening and treatment recommendations, and practical tools to support prevention, diagnosis, and long-term management. Whether you’re new to HIV care or looking to stay current with evolving best practices, this resource is here to help you improve outcomes and reduce the impact of HIV in your community.
Guidelines and Recommendations: Screening, Testing, and Diagnosis
Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health Care Settings These revised recommendations provide guidance for HIV testing of adults, adolescents, and pregnant women in health care settings.
Clinical Considerations for HIV Screening This summary offers US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations and evidence for HIV screening.
Screening for HIV in Health Care Settings: A Guidance Statement from the American College of Physicians and HIV Medicine Association This guidance statement presents the available evidence on screening for HIV in health care settings.
Guidelines and Recommendations: Prescribing HIV PrEP
Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the United States - 2021 These guidelines provide comprehensive information for the use of daily oral antiretroviral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to reduce the risk of acquiring HIV infection in adults.
Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the United States - 2021 Update Clinical Provider's Supplement This supplement is intended to provide additional information that may be useful to clinicians providing PrEP.
Guidelines and Recommendations: Treatment, Care and Viral Suppression
Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents Living with HIV
These guidelines provide an update to the 2016 antiretroviral therapy guidelines to incorporate additional guidance for HIV care guidelines.
Lunch and Learns
The Division of Sexually Transmitted and Bloodborne Diseases hosts monthly webinars on a variety of sexual health topics. These webinars are typically the fourth Wednesday of every month, and participants can earn one continuing education credit from the ND Board of Nursing for listening.
Continuing Education
There are several opportunities for healthcare professionals to earn continuing education for HIV related content.
Free Educational & Prevention Materials
The NDHHS provides free educational materials such as brochures, pamphlets, posters, and DVDs. Prevention supplies including condoms (internal and external), dental dams, lubricant, safer sex kits and condom use instruction cards are also available to healthcare providers and other entities that provide services to at-risk populations.
- NASTAD Billing Guide for HIV Prevention
- Clinical Consultation Center
- Clinical Care for People with TB and HIV
- Effective Interventions: HIV Prevention That Works
- American Academy of HIV Medicine
- Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
- HIV Medicine Association
- International Association of Providers in AIDS Care (IAPAC)
- HIV Journal Articles
- CDC HIV Resource Library
- HIV Awareness Days
- HIV Videos
These are the major guidelines pertaining to an exposure or potential exposure to bloodborne pathogens:
- CDC Guidance for Evaluating Health-Care Personnel for Hepatitis B Virus Protection and for Administering Postexposure Management, 2013
- Postexposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Hepatitis B Virus Infection, 2018
- Testing and Clinical Management of Health Care Personnel Potentially Exposed to Hepatitis C Virus — CDC Guidance, United States, 2020
- Algorithm for Testing and Follow-Up of HCV-Exposed Health Care Personnel
- Updated Guidelines for Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV—United States, 2016
- Updated US Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis, 2013
- Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis, 2001
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