Accessed: 08.10.2019
Based on the National Guidelines for the Management of Tuberculosis in Children 2013, Department of Health, South Africa.
Guideline
SAJHIVMED DECEMBER 2013, Vol. 14, No. 4
Consolidated Guidelines
Geneva, 2016
The End TB Strategy
Global HIV Strategic Information Working Group
For Populations At Risk For HIV
Practical Guideline for collaborative interventions
Policy Guidelines for Health Facilities
Guidelines
UNAIDS/WHO working group on global HIV/AIDS and STI surveillance
August 2015
HIV strategic information for impact
The guidelines acknowledge that overcrowding, unhygienic conditions and high inmate turn over contribute to the spread of infectious diseases within correctional facilities. The document states that voluntary HIV counselling and testing must be offered to all inmates when they enter facilities, duri...ng their incarceration at an inmate’s request and upon their release. All inmates must be screened for TB symptoms upon entry to facilities and at least bi-annually thereafter as well as upon release. Universal screening for anal, oral and genital STIs must be done at entry and upon self-presentation
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Joint WHO/ILO guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent HIV infection.
Recommendations, resources and references
A publication of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society
Policy Brief
Consolidated Guidelines
Updated 2016
WHO/HIV/2017.05
The Panel recommendations on initial combination regimens for the antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naive, HIV-infected patients.
Care and Support Centre (CSC) is a national initiative to provide expanded and holistic care and support services for PLHIV. The guideline focuses on the objectives, criteria for selection, required infrastructure, human resources, MIS tools, and financial guidelines for CSCs. This guideline will b...e useful to the care providers, programme managers, and all stakeholders in providing excellent care to the people living with HIV/AIDS
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These guidelines provide specific recommendations and expert suggestions — for national policy-makers and programme managers and their partners and stakeholders— on prioritizing, planning and providing HIV testing, counselling, treatment and care services for adolescents
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and transmitted to humans by infected triatomine bugs, and less commonly by transfusion, organ transplant, from mother to infant, and in rare instances, by ingestion of contaminated food or drink.1-4 The... hematophagous triatomine vectors defecate during or immediately after feeding on a person. The parasite is present in large numbers in the feces of infected bugs, and enters the human body through the bite wound, or through the intact conjunctiva or other mucous membrane.
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