It is important to check that any drugs prescribed for the patient will not react with other drugs the person is taking. Other useful resources might include the National AIDS Control Programme and Ministry of Health for national guidelines for treatment of opportunistic infections developed in your country. A nurse treats the open wounds of a woman at Elim Hospital in Zimbabwe. This requires complex treatment. Later treatments might include petamidine, prednisolone, dapsone, eflornithine and methylprednisolone.
Simple pneumonia is treated with antibiotics.
However, where ARV is accessible and affordable certain guidelines must be followed. Access to voluntary and confidential counselling and testing. Reliable, long-term and regular supply of quality drugs. Support from a social network to help PLHA stay with the treatment regimen. Appropriate training for health care workers in the correct use of ARVs.