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Editors

Frederick L. Altice, M.D.
Director, HIV in Prisons Program, Yale University AIDS Program

Joseph Bick, M.D.
Director, HIV Treatment Services, California Medical Facility, California Department of Corrections

Senior Advisors

Theodore M. Hammett, Ph.D.
Abt Associates

Ralf Jürgens
Canadian AIDS Law Legal Network

David P. Paar, M.D.
University of Texas Medical Branch

Joseph Paris, Ph.D., M.D.
CCHP Georgia Dept. of Corrections

David Thomas, J.D., M.D.
Florida Dept. of Corrections

Lester Wright, M.D.
New York State Dept. of Corrections

Associate Editors

Dean Rieger, M.D.
Indiana Dept. of Corrections

Josiah Rich, M.D.
Brown University School of Medicine, The Miriam Hospital

Stephen Tabet, M.D., M.P.H.
Univ. of Washington Division of Infectious Disease Seattle HIVNET

David A. Wohl, M.D.
University of North Carolina

Managers

Dennis Thomas
Brown University AIDS Program

Michelle Gaseau
The Corrections Connection

Layout

Kimberly Backlund-Lewis
The Corrections Connection

Distribution

Screened Images Multimedia

Managing Editor

Rebecca Nerenberg
HIV Education Prison Project

The editorial board and contributors to HEPP News include national and regional correctional professionals, selected on the basis of their experience with HIV care in the correctional setting and their familiarity with current HIV treatment. We encourage submissions, feedback, and correspondence from our readership.

Faculty Disclosure

In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Commercial Support, the faculty for this activity have been asked to complete Conflict of Interest Disclosure forms. Disclosures are listed at the end of articles. All of the individual medications discussed in this newsletter are approved for treatment of HIV and hepatitis unless otherwise indicated. For the treatment of HIV and hepatitis infection, many physicians opt to use combination antiretroviral therapy which is not addressed by the FDA.

HEPP News is grateful for the support of the following companies through unrestricted educational grants:

• Major Support: Agouron Pharmaceuticals and Dupont Pharmaceuticals

• Sustaining: Abbott Laboratories, Boehringer-Ingelheim/Roxane Laboratories, Merck & Co., and Roche Pharmaceuticals

• Supporting: OrthoBiotech