Intersection of COVID-19 and HIV

Target Audience

This activity is intended for HIV specialists engaged in the care of patients with HIV.

Program Description

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, clinicians often have questions about special considerations for their patients with HIV, including details about anti-SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, and ART regimens. Dr. Sharon Walmsley and Dr. Karine Lacombe discuss a patient who is newly diagnosed with HIV who recently contracted COVID-19 and whether the patient is eligible for anti-SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies, timing of both COVID-19 and flu vaccinations, and how to initiate an ART regimen.

Educational Objective

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

• Optimize ART regimens and clinical practice to address needs of specific patient populations, such as women with HIV, transgender patients, or patients with substance use disorder

Faculty

Sharon L Walmsley, MSc, MD, FRCPC
Director of Clinical Research
Immunodeficiency Clinic
Toronto Hospital, University Health Network
Professor
University of Toronto Department of Medicine
Senior Scientist
Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
Co- Chair of the CIHR- Canadian HIV Trials Network
Toronto, Ontario

Karine Lacombe, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Infectious and Tropical Diseases
Saint-Antoine Hospital
Professor
Sorbonne University Medical School
Paris, France

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires faculty, planners, and others in control of educational content to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies. All identified conflicts of interest (COI) are thoroughly vetted and mitigated according to PIM policy.  PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality accredited continuing education activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in health care and not a specific proprietary business interest of an ineligible company.

The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities related to the educational content of this CME/CE activity:

Sharon L Walmsley, MSc, MD, FRCPC: Consulting Fees: Gilead Sciences, Inc., Janssen Global Services, LLC, Merck & Co., Inc., ViiV Healthcare Limited; Contracted Research: Gilead Sciences, Inc., Janssen Global Services, LLC, Merck & Co., Inc., ViiV Healthcare Limited

Karine Lacombe, MD, PhD: Consulting Fees: Gilead Sciences, Inc., Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Janssen Global Services, LLC, ViiV Healthcare Limited

The PIM planners and others have nothing to disclose. The Integritas Communications planners and others have nothing to disclose.

Instructions to Receive Credit

To receive credit for this activity, participants must complete the preactivity questionnaire, complete and receive a score of 100% on the posttest, and complete the program evaluation.

Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by PIM and Integritas Communications. PIM is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the health care team.

Physician Continuing Medical Education

The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Continuing Nursing Education

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 0.25 contact hours.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the US Food and Drug Administration.  The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.  The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners.  Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development.  The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management.  Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patients’ conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer's product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Fee Information & Refund/Cancellation Policy

There is no fee for this educational activity.

CME Questions – PIM Contact Information

For information about the accreditation of this program, please contact PIM via email at inquiries@pimed.com or at http://www.pimed.com/.

Integritas Contact Information

For all other questions regarding this monograph, please contact Integritas via email at info@exchangecme.com.

Computer System Requirements

PC
1.4 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or faster processor (or equivalent)
Windows 10, 8.1 (32-bit/64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit)
512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 or later, Windows Edge browser, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome
For HTML Client – Google Chrome (v70.0 & above), Mozilla Firefox (v65.0 & above), and Edge (v42.0 & above)

MAC
1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo or faster processor
512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
MAC OS X 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14
Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome
For HTML Client – Google Chrome (v70.0 & above), Apple Safari (v12.0 & above), and Mozilla Firefox (v65.0 & above)