Global Health Nursing & Midwifery

Nurse-Led Monitoring of HIV Therapy

Started by Sophie Beauvais on 19 Jul 2010

Hi All,

"In areas without sufficient HIV specialist support, nurse-led monitoring
was noninferior to physician-led monitoring; however, neither strategy
resulted in success rates considered acceptable in industrialized countries"
notes Helmut Albrecht, MD in a new Journal Watch review (free and open to
all:
http://aids-clinical-care.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2010/702/1?q=topic_stds
).

The Lancet paper: Sanne I et al. Nurse versus doctor management of
HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (CIPRA-SA): A
randomised non-inferiority trial. Lancet 2010 Jun 15; [e-pub ahead of print]
is available full text on The Lancet's website to registered users (i.e. not
just subscribers):
http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S014067361060894X

Thanks in advance for your feedback on this topic, Sophie

Other citations of note in this paper:

- South African National Antiretroviral Treatment Guidelines, National
Department of Health, South Africa. 1st edn, 2004.
http://www.doh.gov.za/docs/factsheets/guidelines/artguidelines04/intro.pdf

- Document library from the Department of Health in South Africa:
http://www.doh.gov.za/docs/

- Division of AIDS table for grading the severity of adult and pediatric
adverse events by UC Davis Health System, 2004:
http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/clinicaltrials/documents/DAIDS_AE_GradingTable_F...

- CIPRA: Comprehensive International Program of Research on AIDS is a
programme sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Division of AIDS
(DAIDS) in South Africa: http://www.cipra-sa.co.za/