Colleagues:
In your respective institutions, if you have staff physicians or residents/fellows (or other healthcare workers) traveling overseas to provide medical care as part of their work duties, do you provide a supply of HIV post exposure prophylaxis
(PEP) meds, to be taken in the event of a blood borne pathogen exposure, when timely testing of the source patient or availability of PEP may be limited or unavailable.
If so, who prescribes the PEP meds (e.g. employee health clinic vs. travel medicine clinic) and who pays for it (e.g. employee health vs. sponsoring clinical department vs. personal health insurance vs. other)?
Thanks
Pat Hartley
Patrick G. Hartley, M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., M.P.H.
Professor (Clinical) of Internal Medicine
Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
Medical Director: University Employee Health Clinic & Occupational Medicine Clinic
Carver College of Medicine
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1009
319-353-7072 (Office)
319-356-3631 (UEHC)
319-353-6406 (Fax)
patrick-hartley@uiowa.edu