U.S. guidelines: adult/adolescent revision published October 10, 2006; perinatal guidelines October 12; pediatric guidelines October 26.Revised Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral antiretroviral /an·ti·ret·ro·vi·ral/ (-ret´ro-vi?ral) effective against retroviruses, or an agent with this quality. an·ti·ret·ro·vi·ral (  n Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents were issued October 10 to take advantage of new drug information from clinical trials. A one-page summary of the changes is included on the second page of the document. Changes from the previous version are highlighted in yellow. Also, new perinatal perinatal /peri·na·tal/ (-na´t'l) relating to the period shortly before and after birth; from the twentieth to twenty-ninth week of gestation to one to four weeks after birth. per·i·na·tal (p guidelines for antiretroviral treatment for maternal health, and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, were published two days later, October 12. New pediatric treatment guidelines were published October 26. To download the latest official U.S. AIDS-related guidelines, these and others, visit http://www.aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/. Select the guidelines you want in the menu on the left, and click to download either the PDF version, or a PDA version (Portable Digital Assistant), a stripped-down PDF file (Portable Document Format file) The file format in Adobe's Acrobat document exchange technology. Acrobat/PDF has become the de facto standard for document exchange as well as for publishing documents on the Web that are downloaded and read independently of the HTML pages. Millions of brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals are on the Web in PDF format. designed for easier viewing on a handheld device. |
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