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EAGA publications

• Public Health Link: Update to HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) guidance from the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA) following the recent recall of Viracept
  • Download additional information: stability of Kaletra
• EAGA Annual Report 2006
• EAGA Annual Report 2005
• Oral Sex and Transmission of HIV - Statement of Risk (updated January 2003)
• HIV and Infant Feeding - Guidance from the UK Chief Medical Officers' Expert Advisory Group on AIDS, September 2004
  
• HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis - Guidance from the UK Chief Medical Officers' Expert Advisory Group on AIDS. UK Health Departments (February 2004)
• Better for your baby - HIV testing as part of your antenatal care (image of leaflet)
• Review of the Evidence on Risk of HIV Transmission associated with Oral Sex- Report of a Working Group of the UK Chief Medical Officers' Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (June 2000)

Other relevant publications

• Travel safe: reducing the risk of getting a blood-borne infection when you're abroad (April 2008)
• Screening tests for you and your baby (January 2008)
  
• Public Health Link: Improving the detection and diagnosis of HIV in non-HIV specialties including primary care
• Health clearance for tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV: New healthcare workers (March 2007)
• Reducing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV Infection in the United Kingdom: Update Report of an Intercollegiate Working Party (July 2006) - in Portable Document Format
• HIV Infected Health Care Workers: Guidance on Management and Patient Notification
  (Gateway reference number 4557)
  This guidance replaces the 1998 version and includes updated advice on patient notification exercises when a health care worker is found to be infected with HIV.The long-standing restriction on HIV infected health care workers carrying out exposure prone procedures remains.
  
• Children in need and bloodborne viruses: HIV and hepatitis
• Screening for infectious diseases in pregnancy: standards to support the UK antenatal screening programme
• Good Practice Guidelines for Renal Dialysis/Transplantation Units - Prevention and Control of Blood-borne Virus Infection
• Keep Safe - Practical, everyday advice for HIV-infected people and their carers
  - (image of leaflet)
  - (text version)
• Guidelines for pre-test discussion on HIV testing
  - also available as browsable webpage
  Since these guidelines were written, policy with respect to antenatal HIV testing has changed. All women in England are now offered and recommended an HIV test as part of their antenatal care, not just those in high prevalence areas as stated in the guidance. Details of the new policy can be found in HSC 1999/183 Reducing mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
• Guidance for clinical health care workers: protection against infection with blood-borne viruses

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