HIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice
Issue 203
This Tuberculosis guide has been developed jointly by Médecins Sans Frontières and Partners In Health. It aims at providing useful information to the clinicians and health staff for the comprehensive management of tuberculosis. Forms of susceptible and resistant tuberculosis, tuberculosis in child...ren, and HIV co-infection are all fully addressed.
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Indonesian Prevention Guidelines on HIV and AIDS
The consolidated guidelines are complemented by an operational handbook which is designed to assist with implementation of the WHO recommendations by Member States, technical partners and others who are involved in the management of patients with DR-TB. The WHO Operational Handbook on Tuberculosis, ...Module 4: Treatment - Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment provides practical guidance on how to put in place the recommendations at the scale needed to achieve national and global impact.
The document provides information on different aspects of care and support for TB patients. In particular, the handbook provides practical guidance on the implementation of the interventions that enable treatment adherence such as social support, treatment administration options, digital adherence technologies. The practical guidance also includes models of care for all TB patients, models of care for children and adolescents, integrated care for TB, HIV and comorbidities, engagement of private sector, managing of TB in health emergencies. This new practical handbook also includes two important chapters on health education and counselling, and palliative care for patients with TB.
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Diagnóstico y tratamiento de sífilis recomendaciones para los equipos de salud.
El objetivo de esta GPC es proporcionar recomendaciones para el tamizaje organizado
del CCR en el territorio nacional, permitiendo el acceso equitativo a medidas de
prevención y detección temprana de la enfermedad con el fin de disminuir la
incidencia y la mortalidad por el CCR en Argentina.... Esta guía está destinada a todos
aquellos trabajadores de la salud que desarrollen actividades de prevención del CCR.
La población objetivo incluye a aquellos individuos de riesgo promedio, sin
antecedentes personales ni familiares de CCR ni adenomas. Sin embargo, aquellos
individuos identificados con presencia de síntomas sospechosos de CCR, individuos
con incremento del riesgo para el desarrollo de esta enfermedad (síndrome de Lynch,
PAF, PAFA, poliposis hamartomatosas, síndrome de poliposis aserrada, EII, etc.) o con
antecedentes de resecciones de pólipos o adenomas, deberán ser priorizados en el
seguimiento o derivados a atención especializada consecuente, según las
recomendaciones vigentes.
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Este instructivo se aplica a la implementación del SNVS 2.0 para la notificación de pruebas rápidas para sífilis, vih y/o hepatitis b y c; en los puntos de atención para personas usuarias del sistema de salud. Éstos pueden ser centros de salud del primer nivel de atención, locales o espacios ...que brindan las organizaciones de la sociedad
civil, campañas en la vía pública, espacios educativos, etc. No necesariamente refiere al contexto de los laboratorios convencionales. Se caracterizan por la devolución rápida del resultado a la persona testeada y la posibilidad de tomar una decisión oportuna de inciar un tratamiento y/o proponer medidas preventivas.
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Guía de Práctica Clínica - Problema de Salud AUGE
El VIH/sida, desconocido 30 años atrás, se ha constituido en un problema de salud
mundial de una magnitud sin precedentes, considerándose que aproximadamente 25 millones de personas han fallecido en todo el mundo a causa del VIH.
De acuerdo al informe de ONUSIDA sobre la Epidemia Mundial de sida 2008, se
estima que en el año 2007, 370.000 niños menores de 15 años se infectaron con el
VIH. A nivel mundial, el número de niños menores de 15 años que viven con el VIH
aumentó de 1,6 millones en 2001 a 2 millones en 2...007.
Los efectos de la epidemia entre los niños pequeños son graves y de largo alcance. El sida amenaza con causar un retroceso en los años de progreso constante y en la supervivencia de los niños; ha duplicado la mortalidad infantil en los países más afectados por esta epidemia.
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Lancet Global Health 2022;10: e1463–72 Published Online August 29, 2022https://doi.org/10.1016/
S2214-109X(22)00320-5
Cette étude vise à comprendre les freins à l’observance au traitement antirétroviral et à porter un regard critique sur la qualité d’alliance thérapeutique Infirmier-patient. Il s’agit d’une étude qualitative phénoménologique réalisée dans deux hôpitaux ruraux de la province du ...Kongo-central en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC). Des entretiens semi-directifs ont été réalisés auprès de patients.
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Policy Brief. More languages available here https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/179517
This document provides practical guidance on planning and implementing next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology for characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) bacteria. The aim is to detect mutations associated with drug resistance in the context of a surveillance system for tu...berculosis (TB).
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World Health Organization. Country Office for Timor-Leste. (2020). National strategic plan for ending TB 2020--2024. World Health Organization. Country Office for Timor-Leste.
Objective To assess the effectiveness of a community-based tuberculosis and leprosy intervention in which village health teams and health workers conduct door-to-door tuberculosis screening, targeted screenings and contact tracing.
The Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS (DNHA) in Ministry of Health and Population is grateful to all stakeholders who contributed to the development of the Nutrition Education Communication Strategy II. The DNHA acknowledges the financial and technical support from the World Bank and USAID throu...gh the Nutrition, HIV and AIDS project and Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA III)/FHI 360, respectively. The participation of several partners including Irish Aid, the European Union (EU), Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP), World Health Organisation (WHO), Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Civil Society Organisation Nutrition Alliance (CSONA), Concern Worldwide and the Clinton Health Access Initiative(CHAI).
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The HIV/AIDS Sustainability Index Dashboard is a tool completed every two years by President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) teams, host government and partner stakeholders to sharpen the understanding of each country’s sustainability landscape and to assist PEPFAR and other donors in ...making informed HIV/AIDS investment decisions. Based on responses to more than 100 questions, the SID assesses the current state of sustainability of national HIV/AIDS responses across 17 critical elements. Scores for these elements are displayed on a color-coded dashboard, together with contextual charts and information. As the SID is completed over time,
it will allow stakeholders to track progress and gaps across these key components of financial and programmatic sustainability.
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This document defines the framework for Malawi’s National HIV Programs. Considering public health benefits and risks, as well as funding and resource implications, deviations from these guidelines are not supported by the Ministry of Health.
UNAIDS leads the world's most extensive data collection on HIV epidemiology, programme coverage and finance and publishes the most authoritative and up-to-date information on the HIV epidemic.