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HIV PEP Guidelines and Policies

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This page provides information about Australian and international HIV PEP guidelines.

Australian Guidelines

  • National Guidelines for Post Exposure Prophylaxis after Non-Occupational Exposure to HIV

    These guidelines outline the management of individuals who have been exposed (or suspect they have been exposed) to HIV in the non-occupational setting. They incorporate comments received from ASHM and HASTI and have been endorsed by the ASHM Board.

    Download:

  • NSW Health Guidelines for HIV - Management of Non-Occupational Exposure
    Relates to management of individuals non-occupationally exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) through the immediate delivery of post exposure prophylaxis as a prevention intervention, particularly where exposures have resulted from unprotected sexual activity and injecting drug use. (2006)
  • Management of non-occupational exposures to blood borne viruses
    This package has been developed with a New South Wales Health Department HIV Health Promotion Grant. The package is designed to assist staff in Accident and Emergency
    Departments and General Practitioners to appropriately assess, treat, advise and refer patients who present after possible exposure to a blood-borne virus.

    Staff members of the Albion St Centre and St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney have prepared the information in this package.

    Download: npep-bbv-chart.pdf [734kb], npep-bbv.pdf [194kb]
  • QLD Health guidelines for - Post Exposure Prophylaxis for Non-Occupational Exposure to HIV and HBV
    In June 2000 Queensland Health developed guidelines for the management of non-occupational exposure to HIV and HBV. Post-exposure prophylaxis is now available to persons assessed to be at risk of HIV and/or HBV infection through non-occupational exposure. HIV post exposure prophylaxis can be accessed through S100 (HIV) prescribers, sexual health clinics and public hospitals.

    View the Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) fact sheet
  • SA Guidelines for the management of non-occupational exposure to HIV 
    The South Australian Department of Health launched a statewide management system for HIV non-occupational Post-Exposure Prophylaxis in January 2008. This system incorporated the following: statewide distribution of 5-day starter packs, publication of state guidelines and standard operating procedures, targeted promotion to primary and secondary target groups (men who have sex with men and people who inject drugs), training of key workforce groups, notification system and an nPEP triage hotline for members of the public to undertake a risk assessment with registered nurses following a risk exposure. The system also provides advice on management of potential exposures to other STIs and BBVs.
    Click here to link to the document:
    Guidelines for the management of non-occupational exposure to HIV

International Guidelines

  • Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection-Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV in the United States
    Recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - January 21, 2005 / 54(RR02);1-20
    cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5402a1.htm
  • Proposed recommendations for the management of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis after sexual, injecting drug or other exposures in Europe
    Eurosurveillance Monthly - June 2004 Vol 9 Issue 6 page 5-6
    www.eurosurveillance.org/em/v09n06/0906-223.asp
  • Prophylaxis Following Non-Occupational Exposure to HIV
    Knowledge Base Chapter (HIV InSite Published April 2002)
    http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=kb-07-02-07
  • HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis in the 21st Century
    Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 7, No. 2 Mar-Apr 2001
    cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no2/henderson.htm
    • The administration of postexposure prophylaxis has become the standard of care for occupational exposures to HIV.
    • We have learned a great deal about the safety and potential efficacy of these agents, as well as the optimal management of health-care workers occupationally exposed to HIV.
    • This article describes the current state of knowledge in this field, identifies substantive questions to be answered, and summarizes basic principles of postexposure management.
More information

ASHM Primary Care Liaison officer
email: Primary Care