Thomas Walczyk, 2017 PharmD Candidate

Approximately 1.2 million individuals live with HIV/AIDS in the United States. This population is at an increased risk of opportunistic infections (OIs), an area where pharmacists have significant potential to make meaningful interventions.

Healthy People 2020, the national health promotion and disease intervention initiative, set the goal influenza vaccination rate in the community at 70%. Despite this goal, reports show that vaccination rates are way under expectations at 44%.