WHO new guidelines on HIV prevention and treatment released
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On 1 December 2014 and on the occasion of World AIDS Day, as announced earlier, World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines on post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV and the use of co-trimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-related...
In
this second supplement (December 2014) to the 2013 consolidated guidelines on
the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection,
recommendations from two guideline development processes are included:
- post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV;
- the use of co-trimoxazole
prophylaxis for HIV-related infections among adults, adolescents and
children.
These
guidelines provide new recommendations and updates to previous recommendations
outlined in Chapter 5 (ARV drugs for HIV prevention) and Chapter 8 (Managing
common coinfections and comorbidities) of the 2013 consolidated ARV guidelines,
and following the similar structure of the 2013 ARV guidelines, these
recommendations are organized along the continuum of care. These guidelines
reflect important advances in the use of ARV drugs to prevent HIV with more
simplified approaches to post-exposure prophylaxis and simplifying the
indications on the use of co-trimoxazole to prevent opportunistic infections,
bacterial infections and malaria.
Publication details
Number
of pages: 49
Publication date: December 2014
Languages: English
ISBN: 978 92 4 150683 0
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