February 4 ASHM welcomes the recent recommendation from the PBAC to endorse authorised Nurse Practitioners (NP) to prescribe hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV medicines under the Highly Specialised Drugs (HSD) program. The PBAC recommendation states: Prescriber eligibility requirements currently in place for the relevant medicines under the National Health (Highly specialised drugs program) Special ... Read More
August 27, 2019 PrEP, which stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, is a medication regimen designed to reduce the chances of infection by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in at-risk patients. The most widely used PrEP medication is a combination of tenofovir disproxil fumarate (TDF) and emtricitabine. While generic versions of PrEP ... Read More
