BMJ  2005;330 (9 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7495.0-d

Amsterdam improves on AIDS prophylaxis and follow-up

Health services should collaborate in prevention and follow-up for people reporting exposure to HIV and hepatitis B or C, to improve the quality of care for those who may be infected. Since a protocol was implemented in Amsterdam in 2000 to increase collaboration among all local hospitals and health services, Sonder and colleagues (p 825) report, most people now comply with treatment and follow-up; HIV prophylaxis starts soon after exposure; and in nearly two thirds of cases the source of infection is traced and tested.

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Prophylaxis and follow-up after possible exposure to HIV, hepatitis B virus, and hepatitis C virus outside hospital: evaluation of policy 2000-3

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