Request for comments:
Patient monitoring guidelines for HIV care and antiretroviral therapy
Three interlinked patient monitoring systems for HIV care/ART, MCH/PMTCT (including malaria prevention during pregnancy), and TB/HIV
Draft version, July 2008
The first edition of the Patient monitoring guidelines for HIV care and ART was initially drafted in 2004 and published in 2006. Since then, the minimum data set and illustrative tools contained in the guide have been revised and updated following new guidelines, country experience, an expert consultation held in May 2007 and subsequent technical input.
The forms booklet of three interlinked patient monitoring systems for HIV care/ART, MCH/PMTCT and TB/HIV is the result of a collaborative, iterative process of revision including several WHO departments, US government and UN agencies and many other international participating organizations and experts. This includes input from the PMTCT IATT M&E technical work group.
A follow-up meeting is planned for September 11-13, 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland where experts will convene again to finalize the revised three interlinked patient monitoring systems and to discuss country implementation.
We are requesting timely feedback and comments on the tools before the meeting. We would in particular be interested in:
- tracking pre-ART visits;
- recording pre-ART transfer-in patients;
- monitoring and aggregating TB status assessment in a simple way over time;
- experience with defining lost to follow-up – currently ‘not seen for 3 months after last missed appointment’;
- replacing ‘picked up ARVs each month for 6, 12 months’ from ART cohort report with something more reliable and useful; and
- removing paediatric age disaggregation from Table 4, cross-sectional quarterly report, ‘current on ART’.
Please provide feedback in the form of appended comments on the PDF file, or on a separate Word document and email with “Forms booklet feedback” in the subject header to imaimail@who.int by August 15, 2008.