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
Preventing New HIV Infections The listed guidelines and related implementation resources provide guidance about prevention strategies and services that can prevent or diagnose new HIV infections and link individuals at risk to relevant prevention, medical, and social services.
Preexposure Prophylaxis for the Prevention of HIV Infection in the United States - 2017 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 - 2017 Update Clinical Provider's Supplement This supplement is intended to provide additional information that may be useful to clinicians providing PrEP.
COVID-19 and HIV
It is a time of unprecedented demands on our public health and community-based HIV prevention partners, and we are working to help them prioritize steps needed to combat COVID-19, while also delivering essential HIV prevention and treatment services in both traditional and novel ways.
- CDC: HIV and COVID-19 Resources for Patients and Providers
- HIV.gov Coronavirus (COVID-19) and People with HIV
- HHS Interim Guidance for COVID-19 and Persons with HIV
- Infectious Disease Society of America
- What You Can do if You are at Higher Risk of Severe Illness from COVID-19
- Dear Colleague Letter: CDC Guidance on PrEP During COVID-19
- Guidance on STD Care and Prevention
Guidelines and Recommendations: Treatment, Care and Viral Suppression
Evidence of HIV Treatment and Viral Suppression in Preventing the Sexual Transmission of HIV
This fact sheet presents evidence to support HIV treatment and viral suppression to prevent sexual transmission of HIV.
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.
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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