New WHO ARV guidelines and inclusion of ARVs in WHO Model List of Essential Drugs

[Guest guest]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

I would like to inform you that WHO has posted the documents on the new ARV

treatment guidelines and on the inclusion of ARVs on the Model List of Essential

Drugs on its web-site, with the following URLs:

Press release: http://www.who.int/inf/en/pr-2002-28.html

Executive summary of new ARV guidelines:

http://www.who.int/HIV_AIDS/HIV_AIDS_Care/Executive%20sum-April22v3.pdf

Full text of the new ARV guidelines (draft):

http://www.who.int/HIV_AIDS/HIV_AIDS_Care/ARV_Draft_April_2002.pdf

Recommendations of the Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of

Essential Medicines and new Model List of Essential Drugs:

http://www.who.int/medicines/organization/par/edl/expertcomm.shtml

http://www.who.int/medicines/organization/par/edl/expertrecommend.shtml

I thought you would appreciate an easy way to access those materials.

With best regards,

Jos Perriëns, MD

Director Care a.i.

HIV/AIDS Department

World Health Organization

Office C 137

20 Avenue Appia

1211 Geneva 27

Tel: + (41) 22 791 44 56

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