a model for an outreach social work oncology training program the video tapes and guide books are being developed to give social workers and other health care professionals new information that can be readily applied to their day to day interactions with cancer patients and their families anticipated outcomes will be social workers and other health care professionals will have access to training materials to increase their knowledge and selfawareness about cancer cancer patients and their families lastly it should assist them in being more comfortable and knowledgeable in working with cancer patients serious infection from staphylococcus aureus in 2 hivinfected patients receiving fusion inhibitor therapy fusion inhibitors are novel antiretroviral agents administered as subcutaneous injections approved for use in treatmentexperienced hivinfected patients hivinfected patients are at increased risk for staphylococcus aureus colonization specifically with methicillinresistant s aureus mrsa and subsequent systemic infection we present the cases of 2 patients without a history of mrsa infection in whom a series of severe s aureus infections developed after fusion inhibitor therapy