Clinical Medicine
JCI Insight. 2017;2(7):e91963.
PQDx 0141-051-00 WHO
PQDx Public Report
April/2017, version 5.0
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.178608
Technical Brief
HIV patient monitoring and case surveillance
WHO/HIV/2017.11
PQDx 0018-010-00 WHO
PQDx PR
July/2016, version 3.0
These guidelines aim to guide all health care providers in Myanmar, accommodating the situation of different settings in the context of progressive decentralization of HIV services. Notable changes from the previous edition include:
• diagnosis of HIV
• update on the initiation of ART<...br>
• new ARV drugs and regimens
• new recommendation on infant prophylaxis
• PrEP and PEP updates
• updates on co-infections and comorbidities management
It should be noted that these guidelines are meant for the operational level and are adapted and adopted in line with existing Myanmar context.
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Patients with retreatment tuberculosis (TB) represent those
who have been treated previously for onemonth ormorewith
anti-TB drugs and who have been diagnosed once again with
the disease.These patientsmainly include relapses, treatment
after failure, or loss to follow-up on a first-line treatmen...t
regimen [1]. The number of these patients is not negligible.
In 2014, of the 6.3 million TB cases that were notified
by National TB Programmes (NTPs) to the World Health
Organization (WHO), approximately 700,000 patients were
already previously treated
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