Guideline
Manual on paediatric HIV care and treatment for district hospitals: addendum to the Pocket book of hospital care of children
- Communicating with families
- Gastrointestinal and nutrition
- Infection and sepsis
- Medical
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Pain management
- Professional practice
- Sedation and analgesia
This guideline is from 2011, more than five years ago. Check whether a newer version exists and which version your unit follows.
Summary
WHO manual on paediatric HIV care for district hospitals in resource-limited settings, issued as an addendum to the Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children. It covers diagnosis and routine care of HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children, antiretroviral therapy, infant feeding and nutritional support, pain management, disclosure and psychosocial care, and treatment of common illnesses and opportunistic infections such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoea and malnutrition. It offers algorithms and simplified management tools for doctors, clinical officers and senior nurses where laboratory capacity is limited. Relevance to PICU is indirect, though it informs management of severe HIV-associated infections in children in low-resource settings.
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