Since substantial exposures to others' blood or body fluids in occupational and non-occupational settings can be somewhat an emergency (i.e. some treatments should be started within 4 hours), we recommend that concerned persons in King County call us rather than rely on the web sites below:

• Dr. Bob Wood, Director, HIV/AIDS Control Program
  (206) 296-4649.
• After hours: please call (206) 726-2619 to be directed to the after hours provider.

• Antiretroviral Postexposure Prophylaxis After Sexual, Injection-Drug Use, or Other Nonoccupational Exposure to HIV in the United States: Recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  MMWR, Recommendations and Reports, January 21, 2005/vol. 54/ No. RR-2
  
  
• The National HIV Telephone Consultation Service (Warmline)
  Offers physicians and other health care providers up-to-the-minute HIV clinical information, and individualized expert case consultation across the broad range of clinical HIV/AIDS problems. Phone: 1-800-933-3413 Hours: 6am-5pm (PST), M-F
  
  
• The National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline (PEPline)
  Offers treating clinicians up-to-the-minute advice on managing occupational exposures (i. e., needlesticks, splashes, etc.) to HIV, hepatitis and other blood-borne pathogens. Phone: 1-888-448-4911 Hours: 24 hours / 7 days a week.

• Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, June 29, 2001.
  
  
• APPENDIX A. Practice Recommendations for Health-Care Facilities Implementing the U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for Management of Occupational Exposures to Bloodborne Pathogens
  
  
• APPENDIX B. Management of Occupational Blood Exposures
  
  
• APPENDIX C. Basic and Expanded HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis Regimens
  
  
• What You Should Know About . . . PEP! (The "Morning After" Pill)
  
  
• Counseling Protocols from the UCSF Post Exposure Prevention Project
  
  
• Prophylaxis Following Occupational Exposure to HIV
  
  
• Prophylaxis Following Non-Occupational Exposure to HIV
  
  
• Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Health-Care Worker Exposures to HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis
  
  
• National Nonoccupational HIV Postexposure Prophylaxis Registry
  
  
• Post Exposure Prophylaxis Articles from HIV Insite
  
  
• Post-exposure treatment after unsafe sex