Standard Operating Procedures for Antiretroviral Therapy

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Standard Operating Procedures for Antiretroviral Therapy

November 2004

Standard Operating Procedures for Antiretroviral Therapy is a timely

resource for clinicians delivering antiretroviral therapy (ART)

services at health facilities in low-resource settings.

This guide describes processes and provides instructions to maximize

ART service delivery in accordance with the relevant national

guidelines. It guides clinicians in providing ART to HIV-infected

clients and in evaluating performance, thereby serving as a quality

assurance tool for management. This series of protocols includes

psections on procedures for providing ART to adults and adolescents,

adherence counseling and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).

FHI's Institute for HIV/AIDS is currently collaborating with

ministries of health and other implementing partners to introduce and

scale up ART at health facilities in several countries, including

Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda.

From these experiences, FHI and its partners have developed these

SOPs for ART delivery; they can be adapted easily to specific

national contexts. The SOPs should evolve as new information

impacting ART becomes available, and should be revised to update

standards and procedures.

Adapt Procedures to Individual Country Needs

Adapt the procedures to individual country needs by downloading the

Microsoft Word files below:

Introduction - 5 pages (35.50KB)

Section A: ART for Adults and Adolescents - 32 pages (4.40MB)

Section A: Forms - 18 pages (1.91MB)

Section B: ART Adherence Counseling - 17 pages (4.25MB)

Section B: Forms - 8 pages (149.00KB)

Section C: Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) - 12 pages (4.21MB)

Bibliography - 2 pages (27.00KB)

To download a copy of the document please visit the url :

http://www.fhi.org/en/HIVAIDS/pub/guide/sopart.htm

Or contact your moderator for a pdf copy.