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• Essential Prevention and Care Interventions for Adults and Adolescents living with HIV in resource-limited settings (external URL)

  Link leads to: http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/prev_care/OMS_EPP_AFF_en.pdf Summary: This document is the result of an effort to review the evidence and develop recommendations for interventions to reduce illness associated with HIV infection and prevent HIV transmission. The objective of these recommendations is to provide global, technical, evidence-based recommendations for prevention and care interventions, other than ART, for people living with HIV in resource-limited settings. They are primarily intended for managers of national and sub-national AIDS programmes and nongovernmental organizations that deliver HIV care services and for policy-makers involved in scaling up HIV prevention, care and treatment in settings with limited resources. Table of Content 1. Background and rationale > Involving people living with HIV 2. Objectives > Target audience 3. Methods > Strength and quality of the evidence 4. Recommendations Psychosocial counselling and support : > Comprehensive interventions > Counselling and condoms > Sero-discordant couples > Sero-concordant couples > Adherence interventions > Mental health Disclosure, partner notification and testing and counseling: > Partner notification and disclosure > Testing and counselling of partners and family members Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis: > Pregnant women and co-trimoxazole Tuberculosis (TB): > Counselling > Screening for TB-disease > TB-preventive therapy Preventing fungal infections Sexually transmitted and other reproductive tract infections: > Screening, diagnosis and management of STIs and RTIs > Genital herpes > Screening for ongoing risk behaviours and STIs > Screening for cervical cancer Preventing malaria: > Co-trimoxazole for malaria > Insecticide-treated mosquito nets > Prevention of malaria infection in pregnant women with HIV Selected vaccine preventable diseases: > Hepatitis-B vaccine > Pneumococcal vaccine > Infl uenza vaccine > Yellow fever vaccine Nutrition: > Nutrition assessment > Nutrition support and micronutrient supplements > Nutrition support for pregnant women Family planning: > Family planning counselling and services > Condoms and counselling > Safe reproductive services Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV: > Pregnant women with indications for ART > ARV prophylaxis for preventing HIV infection in infants > Recommended ARV regimen for preventing MTCT among women in labour who have not received antenatal antiretroviral prophylaxis > Infants born to HIV-infected women who did not receive antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy or labour Needle-syringe programmes and opioid substitution therapy: > Needle-syringe programmes > Opioid substitution therapy Water, sanitation and hygiene: > Safe Water > Sanitation > Hygiene 5. References 6. Tables Table 1. Interventions to prevent illness Table 2. Interventions to prevent HIV transmission Table 3. Medication indications, dosages, and contraindications Table 4. Interventions for integrated HIV prevention, care, and treatment, by type of intervention and strength of recommendation 7. Appendices A. Systematic review of evidence B. Expert consultation, list of attendees C. Clinical staging of HIV disease in adults and adolescents D. Criteria for HIV-related clinical events in adults and adolescents E. Guidelines and links Source: World Health Organization - WHO Publication Date: November 1, 2008 Language: English Keywords: Angular cheilitis, comprehensive care, Herpes zoster, HIV wasting syndrome, Kaposi sarcoma, leukoplakia, non-ART care, oral candidiasis, oral ulcerations, Program Management, Publications & Research Preview