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Occupational Medicine 2007 57(5):329-336; doi:10.1093/occmed/kqm046
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Occupational Medicine. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Occupational exposure to HIV and the use of post-exposure prophylaxis

Elizabeth Hamlyn and Philippa Easterbrook

Department of Sexual Health and HIV, Kings College Hospital, London SE5 9RS, UK

Abstract The use of antiretroviral therapy as post-exposure prophylaxis against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now routine following high-risk exposure to the HIV virus. This article summarizes the management of health care workers and others exposed to HIV in an occupational setting, and the evidence behind it.

Keywords      HIV; occupational exposure; post-exposure prophylaxis

Correspondence to: Elizabeth Hamlyn, Caldecot Centre, Kings College Hospital, London SE5 9RS, UK. Tel: +44 787 066 5620; fax: +44 207 346 3486; e-mail: elizabeth.hamlyn{at}kingsch.nhs.uk


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