Patient Monitoring Guidelines for HIV Care and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)

Author(s): World Health Organization

Year: 2006

Abstract:

Patient Monitoring Guidelines for HIV Care and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) is a collaborative work coordinated by MEASURE Evaluation and the World Health Organization (WHO), and endorsed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS (PEPFAR), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other international partners. The guidelines are intended to facilitate stakeholder consensus on a minimum, standardized set of data elements to be included in patient monitoring tools, and aid in the development of an effective national HIV care and ART patient monitoring system. The document is aimed at those involved at various levels of the development or revision of patient monitoring tools such as HIV care and ART patient and facility records, registers and reports, or electronic systems, and may include national AIDS programme managers, ministries of health, and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) officers.