WHO: HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Guide for Implementation

This guide assumes the following to be either in place or in development in each country in the Region with the initiation of ART:

• Top-level political commitment to ART;
• Adequate financial resources for ART implementation;
• An uninterrupted supply of commodities, including ARV dugs;
• An enabling regulatory framework for training and certifying new and existing health workers;
• National guidelines for HIV/AIDS treatment and care; and
• Accelerated HIV/AIDS prevention programmes.
  
  

This document focuses on HIV/AIDS care and treatment for adults and adolescents. Care and treatment for children, especially clinical care, will be developed in the next edition of this document or as a separate document.

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