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The IHS maintains a website of locally developed and culturally relevant patient education handouts on a wide variety of diseases and topics that can easily be opened in Word and printed. Each handout contains corresponding patient education codes that should be documented when reviewing these...

This report provides guidance for HHS programs for implementing syringe services programs (SSPs) for injection drug users using Fiscal Year 2010 funding. SSPs include syringe access, disposal, and needle exchange programs, referral and linkage to HIV prevention services, substance abuse treatment,...

This report presents recommendations for postexposure interventions to prevent hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, or HIV infections and tetanus in persons wounded in bombings or events causing mass casualties. During such events, wounded persons may be exposed to blood, body fluids, or tissue...

This report updates previous US Public Health Service recommendations for the management of health-care personnel (HCP) who have occupational exposure to blood and other body fluids that may contain Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or HIV/AIDS. It contains recommendations for Hepatitis B Virus...