HIV: 40 Years and Counting - Live Webinar on February 12,2025 8PM ET
Learn about the eight categories of HIV medications, adherence importance, and drug advantages and disadvantages. This Florida-approved course uses San Francisco Study data to emphasize the need for 95% regimen adherence.
About this webinar
With eight categories of HIV meds now available, healthcare professionals need to be up to date about these therapies. Whether using regimens from 20 years ago, or the newest drugs healthcare professionals need to be monitoring adherence to those regimens. By providing data from the San Francisco Study to show the need for 95% adherence. This Florida-approved course will also describe the advantages and disadvantages of each category of drugs, as well as those individual drugs.
At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:
Define HIV and AIDS, its history and epidemiology
Identify common modes of HIV transmission
Describe methods in which HIV may be transmitted in a health care setting
Discuss universal precautions and other infection control techniques that can reduce the risk of HIV transmission in health care settings Identify common secondary infections and conditions associated with HIV and AIDS
Determine clinical strategies for the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS and describe the changes in HIV disease state management over the past 40 years
Discuss federal and Florida laws pertaining to HIV and AIDS, including confidentiality of testing, the treatment of patients, partner notification and reporting requirements, and the offering of HIV testing to pregnant women
Instructors
Peter A. Kreckel, RPh is a most unique breed of community pharmacist. He is a 1981 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. He has practiced independent community pharmacy for his entire career. He began his teaching career at St. Francis University in 2005, in the Department of Physician Assistant Sciences. For the past 16 years, he has taught Pharmacology to over 700 Physician Assistant Science students in their didactic year. He teaches all disciplines year-round, from Antibiotic therapy to Ob-Gyn.