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HIV/AIDS Guidelines U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents Panel Members and Consultants (Last updated July 10, 2019; last reviewed July 10, 2019) These guidelines were developed by the Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents (a working group of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council). Panel Co-Chairs Roy M. Gulick Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY H. Clifford Lane National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Executive Secretary Alice K. Pau National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Scientific Members Judith Aberg Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY Adaora Adimora University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC Allison Agwu Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Jason Baker Hennepin Healthcare & University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Curt Beckwith Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI Roger Bedimo University of Texas Southwestern & VA North Texas Health Care System, Dallas, TX R. Douglas Bruce Cornell Scott Hill Health Center, New Haven, CT Geetanjali Chander Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Jennifer Cocohoba University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Susan Cu-Uvin Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI Eric Daar Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA Rajesh Gandhi Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Edward Gardner Denver Public Health & University of Colorado, Denver, CO Thomas Giordano Baylor College of Medicine & Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Houston, TX David Glidden University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Linda Gorgos Southwest CARE Center, Santa Fe, NM Birgit Grund University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Peter Hunt University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Emily Hyle Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Steven Johnson University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO Rami Kantor Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI Marla J. Keller Albert Einstein College of Medicine & Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY Arthur Kim Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Michael Kozal Yale School of Medicine & VA Connecticut Healthcare System, New Haven, CT Jeffrey Lennox Emory University, Atlanta, GA Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents with HIV vi Susan Little University of Californa San Diego, San Diego, CA Susanna Naggie Duke University, Durham, NC Tonia Poteat University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC Asa Radix Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY James Raper University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL Daniel Reirden University of Colorado & Children’s Hospital, Colorado, Aurora, CO Kimberly Scarsi University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Serena Spudich Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Susan Swindells University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Pablo Tebas University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Melanie Thompson AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA Phyllis Tien University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Rochelle Walensky Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Community Members Danielle Campbell Los Angeles Women’s HIV/AIDS Task Force, Los Angeles, CA David Evans Project Inform, Pasadena, CA Tim Horn National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, Washington, DC Andy Kaytes AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition, San Diego, CA Steven Vargas Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans, Houston, TX Members Representing Department of Health and Human Services Agencies John T. Brooks Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Laura Cheever Health Resources and Services Administration, Rockville, MD Henry Masur National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Virginia Sheikh Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD Kimberly Struble Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD Non-Voting Observers Nahida Chakhtoura National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Rohan Hazra National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Safia Kuriakose Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., in support of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD Consultant for HIV-2 Infection Geoffrey Gottlieb University of Washington, Seattle, WA Consultants for Pharmacology Sarita Boyd Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD Safia Kuriakose Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., in support of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents with HIV vii.
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