Patient treatment cards
The patient treatment cards (one for each of the four first-line regimens) are used by health care workers when informing and educating patients in what it means to take ART—when and how to take their pills, how to manage mild side effects and when to seek care from the facility. In addition, prevention interventions such as safer sex are addressed. They are often sent home with the patient, and are for country adaptation and translation into local language.
Related IMAI Patients and community documents
These guidelines have been released for country adaptation and to help with the emergency scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in resource-limited settings. Interim guidelines are regularly revised based on early implementation experience. Please send comments, suggestions and requests for adaptation assistance to: imaimail@who.int.
For country adaptation, most IMAI publications, modules and recording forms are also available in Word and/or InDesign formats. To request these formats please send an email to imaimail@who.int.