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Letters from the Chief Officer to key audiences.
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2000
Letters issued in 2000
- PL CO (2000)4: HIV post-exposure prophylaxis: Guidance from the UK Chief Medical Officers' Expert Advisory Group on AIDS
- PL CO (2000)3: Review of the evidence on risk of HIV transmission associated with oral sex
- PL CO (2000)2: Variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease - advice to practitioners of complementary and alternative medicine
- PL CO (2000)1: Leaflet for pregnant women on antenatal screening for hepatitis B
1998
Letters issued in 1998
- PL CO (1998)4: Antenatal testing for HIV
- PL CO (98)3: Unlinked anonymous HIV surveys
- PL CO (98)2: Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP)/Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) guidance 'Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy agents: safe working and the prevention of infection'
- PL CO (98)1 - New variant CJD patients who have received implicated blood products
1997
Letters issued in 1997
- PL CO (97)2: Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) guidance "Infection risks to new and expectant mothers in the workplace a guide for employers"
- PL CO (97)1 - Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens guidance on the management and control of viral haemorrhagic fevers
- PL CO (97)1 - Guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis for health care workers occupationally exposed to HIV
1996
Letters issued in 1996
1995
Letters issued in 1995
- PL CO (95)5: Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens Guidance on protection against blood-borne infections in the workplace HIV and hepatitis
- PL CO (95)4: Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens guidance on categorisation of biological agents according to hazard and categories of containment
- PL CO (95)3: Milk supplies in relation to anthrax in dairy herds/flocks (England and Wales)
- PL CO (95)2: Anonymous HIV surveys
- PL CO (95)1: To District Directors of public health
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