Recommendations and Guidance
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Below are disease-specific recommendations and guidelines for correctional facilities and healthcare settings. This page is updated regularly with the most recent guidelines and recommendations available.
HIV/AIDS
- Clinical Guidelines for medical management of HIV infection and other issues surrounding HIV infection, HHS
- HIV Screening Recommendations, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
- HIV testing implementation guidance for correctional settings [7.44 MB]
- Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health-Care Settings
- Updated U.S. Public Health Service guidelines for the management of occupational exposures to HIV and recommendations for postexposure prophylaxis
- Additional HIV Guidance
MRSA
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Tuberculosis
- Clinical Practice Guidelines: Treatment of Drug Susceptible Tuberculosis, Oxford Academic
- Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings
- Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC
- Latent Tuberculosis Infection: Screening Recommendations, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
- Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional and Detention Facilities
- Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in Correctional and Detention Facilities Slide Set
- Tuberculosis in Correctional Settings
- Tuberculosis in Correctional Settings: What Corrections Staff Need to Know Slide Set
- Tuberculosis in Prisons, World Health Organization
- Additional Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Guidelines
Viral Hepatitis
- CDC guidance for evaluating health-care personnel for hepatitis B virus protection and for administering post exposure management
- HCV Testing and Linkage to Care, AASLD
- Hepatitis A guidelines
- Hepatitis B guidelines
- Hepatitis C guidelines
- Hepatitis B Vaccination Recommendations for Adults
- Prevention and Control of Infections with Hepatitis Viruses in Correctional Settings
- Recommendations for Identification and Public Health Management of Persons with Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection (2008)
- Recommendations for Prevention and Control of HCV Infection and HCV-Related Chronic Disease (1998) [489 KB]
- Recommendations for the Identification of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Persons Born During 1945-1965 [879 KB]
- Recommendations from the National Academies Report
Additional Guidelines and Recommendations
The Federal Bureau of Prisons Clinical Practice Guidelines
Additional CDC guidance documents are available for the prevention and treatment of HIV, STDs, Viral Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis as well as school health guidelines. You may also visit CDC Stacks for a searchable repository of current and superseded CDC guidance documents. Use the advanced search feature and select the Guidelines and Recommendations collection to filter your search query by subject, title, or other criteria.
- Page last reviewed: June 14, 2017
- Page last updated: June 14, 2017
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