March 2020

Global Advanced HIV Disease Toolkit

Collaboration Between Partners Working To Improve Advanced HIV Disease Management
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To access the Global Advanced HIV Disease Toolkit, please click here.

The downloadable PDF above is the introduction to the full toolkit found here.

Advanced HIV disease is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a CD4 cell count below 200 cells/mm3, stage three or four HIV disease, or HIV in any child under 5 years of age. Worldwide, one in three people living with HIV enters care with advanced HIV disease, placing them at a high risk of serious illness and death. Though recent innovations, combined with a global commitment, turned a once-fatal illness into a chronic disease, AIDS-related deaths have plateaued leaving individuals living with AHD at the greatest risk of mortality and morbidity.

Therefore, multiple partners have worked to improve AHD management across lower-middle-income countries in Africa and have identified the need for a standardized, generic AHD toolkit. The Global AHD toolkit linked here is the culmination of this recognition and involves a strong collaboration of partners, including EGPAF, under the AHD Implementation Steering Committee (ISC) of the Unitaid/CHAI Initiative. This toolkit aims to provide tools for HCWs based in MOH-supported resource-limited settings in Africa by providing materials to diagnose and treat people living with AHD both in hospital and ambulatory care settings. It will help aid patient and community sensitization, literacy, and demand creation for AHD services and is aligned to the WHO recommended package of AHD care. This toolkit is designed to be used as an overarching template that can be adapted in-country according to patient, health care worker (HCW), programmatic need and context.

Country:

Global

Topics:

Advanced HIV Disease