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TREATMENT PREPAREDNESS
II. OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS
Available materials:
- Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa) "Guidelines to Opportunistic Infections associated with HIV)
- Fact sheets on cryptococcal meningitis, candida and a drug, fluconazole used to treat both infections
- Fact sheets on Pneuomocystis carinii pneumonia and co-trimaxozole (Bactrim-Septra), a drug used to treat and prevent the disease
- Fact sheets on nutrition and diorrhea
- Tuberculosis fact sheet and "Knowing TB:" Essential Knowledge for the General Public in HIV Epidemic Areas
Why we've chosen these materials
There are several different ways to approach education about opportunistic infections. These include
- education about specific diseases that are common among HIV-positive (such as cryptococcal meningitis)
- information about the drugs used to treat these diseases
- information about syndromes or conditions, such as diorrhea and wasting, that are common among HIV-positive people and may have a variety of causes
- comprehensive manuals that list many common OIs, and their treatments.
We've paired fact sheets on OIs with information on the drugs that treat them, and provided examples of other materials that take different approaches to gain feedback on which approaches are most useful at different times and for different audiences.
CONTENTS
A Guide to Treating Opportunistic Infections for People with HIV/AIDS
Candidiasis (thrush, yeast infection)
Diarrhea
Info on Diarrhea
from NAM on www.aidsmap.com website
View Online
Pneumocystis Carinii Pneumonia (PCP)
Turberculosis (TB)
Knowing TB
From Stop TB Website
TB/HIV Research Project, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 2001
(link to .pdf requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Download PDF
TB and HIV
from TAC website (.rtf format in .zip file)
Download .zip file
Isoniazid Preventive Therapy (IPT) for TB
on University of Botswana website
View Online
Wasting Syndrome
We need your feedback
INSTRUCTIONS FOR REVIEWERS
1) Identify who will participate in review process.
Many of these materials will be most useful for individuals providing direct service to people with HIV and AIDS, and affected groups. It would be ideal to include a direct service provider (who may also be a person living with HIV/AIDS) in your review team.
2) Review materials & Complete survey
You will find four sub-packets of information.
- (I) antiretrovirals
- (II) opportunistic infections
- (III) Immunology and HIV life cycle basics
- (IV) mother to child transmission
Each sub-packet starts with an introduction/explanation of contents. The second sheet is the sheet reviewers should fill out and return to the Materials working group. Please fill out as many of the questions as you can and use righthand column and the reverse side for additional comments.
You will also find a separate survey (sheet V, white) assessing the need for different types of information on the global context of treatment access today. For this sheet, just check the boxes of the information you want or have already, and indicate translation needs.
3) Return survey
Via mail: Emily Bass
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative
110 William Street
New York, NY 10038 USA
Via email: ebass@iavi.org
On the web: Fill the forms out online under each topic.
REVIEWER'S CHECKLIST
Please mail or email the following back Emily Bass (IAVI, 110 William Street, New York, NY USA, 10038 or ebass@iavi.org)
- Treatment materials survey review form (2 pages)
- 4 review forms, (2 pages each) for:
- Antiretrovirals
- Opportunistic infections
- Immunology and HIV lifecycle
- Mother to child transmission
- "Global context" survey sheet (1 page)
- Copies of any materials that you are currently using that you would like
to share with the ITP materials working group and participants in the March conference
NOTE: All reviewers will receive electronic versions of these forms (in Word format) to facilitate the review process.
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