Produced by the World Health Organization, Priority interventions: HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector is the definitive 'one-stop shop' designed to help countries, donors and other stakeholders expand and improve their response to one of the greatest health-care challenges of our time.

It includes everything from how to expand condom programming to the latest in treatment recommendations, guidelines and standards. Priority interventions is designed to be a 'living' web-based document that will be periodically updated with new recommendations based on the rapidly-evolving experience of health-sector scale up.

Conclusion
This document called” Priority Interventions: HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in the health sector” is a preliminary response to the request of G8 member states to WHO: “to develop and implement a package of HIV prevention, treatment and care ,with the aim of coming as close as possible to universal access to treatment for all those who need it by 2010”

It is the first WHO’s trial to compile all Health sector HIV/AIDS heath sector priority interventions, recommendations and tools in one document. The document presents the complete set of interventions necessary to build a comprehensive health sector response and tries to guide users in prioritizing them according to the epidemic settings and levels of the health system. Countries are expected to select within these interventions those that are adapted to their realities on the ground. A number of important reasons will be considered to make this choice including the epidemiological situation, the level of the system, the socio cultural context and the availability of human and financial resources in the country.

This document also responds to a long standing country need expressed by several National authorities on different occasions .WHO hopes that they will find it as a useful tool to scale up HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care towards Universal Access.

As mentioned in the introduction, this document is designed to be a living document, the current version will be available on CD-ROM .WHO is committed to collect the feedbacks from all users and develop an improved second version in hard copy and electronic version as soon as possible.

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GLOASSARY
3TC Lamivudine
AFASS Acceptable, Feasible, Affordable,
Sustainable and Safe
ABC A ba cavir
AFB Acid Fast Bacilli
ALT Alanine Aminotransferase
ART Antiretroviral Therapy
ARV Antiretroviral
AZT Azido Thymidine
BCG Bacille Calmette-Guerine
BMI Body Mass Index
BTS Blood Transfusion Services
CITC Client Initiated Testing and Counselling
DBS Dry Blood Spot
DNA Deoxyribonucleic Acid
DOT S Directly Observed Treatment
EIA Enzyme Immunoassay
FTC Fixed Dose Combination
HBV Hepatitis B Virus
HCC Hepatocelular Carcinoma
HCV Hepatitis C Virus
HIV Human Immunodeficiency
ICF Intensified TB case finding
IDU Injecting Drug Users/Use
IPT Isoniazide Preventive Therapy
IRS Indoor Residual Spraying
ITN Insecticide-Treated Net(s)
MSM Men who have sex with men
NAT Nucleic Acid Testing
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NNRT I Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
NRT I Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
NSP Needle Syringe programs
NVP Nevirapine
OI Opportunistic Infection
OST Opioid Substitution therapy
MDR Multidrug Resistant
PCP Pneumocytis Pneumonia
PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction
PEP Post Exposure Prophylaxis
PI Protease Inhibitor
PITC Provider Initiated Testing and counselling
PML Progressive Mulitfocal Leukoencephalopathy
PLWHIV People living with HIV
RDA Recommended Daily allowance
RN A Ribonucleic Acid
RPR Rapid Plasma Reagin
SIGN Safe Injection Global Network
STI Sexually Transmitted Infections
TB Tuberculosis
TC Testing and Counselling
TG Transgender people
UNAIDS Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS
UNFPA United Nations Population Fund
VCT Voluntary Testing and Counselling
XDR Extensive Drug Resistant

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