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Handbook on Access to HIV/AIDS-related treatment
Notes and acknowledgements

Access introduction - read this first!

1. What is the International HIV/AIDS Alliance?
2. What is this handbook?
3. Why was this handbook developed?
4. How was this handbook developed?
5. Who is this handbook for?
6. How can this handbook be used?

Additional Materials:
  • Example of workshop schedule


7. What is in each chapter of the handbook?
8. What materials are needed to use this handbook?
9. Want to know more?

Access chapter 1: First questions to ask

1.1. Care, support and treatment
  • A. Care and support

  • B. Treatment


1.2. Linking treatment and prevention

1.3. Access to treatment
  • A. Availability of treatment

  • B. Accessibility of treatment


Additional Materials:
  • Information Sheet: Barriers to access to treatment

  • Information Sheet: Factors affecting access to treatment


1.4. Want to know more?

Access chapter 2: Foundations of treatment

2.1. Basic elements of treatment work
  • A. Helping relationships for treatment work

  • B. Knowledge, skills and attitudes for treatment work

  • C. An ethical approach to treatment work

  • D. Information for treatment work


2.2. How different treatments vary

2.3. Working with others to improve access to treatment
  • A. Partnerships to improve access to treatment

  • B. Advocacy to improve access to treatment


Additional materials:
  • Treatment information sheet

  • Treatment assessment sheet


2.4. Want to know more?

Access chapter 3: Assessing treatment needs and resources and deciding what to do

3.1. The assessment process

3.2. Assessment frameworks
  • A. Assessing needs and resources - people with HIV and the community

  • B. Assessing needs and resources - the local environment

  • C. Assessing needs and resources - your NGO/CBO/PLHA group


3.3. Deciding what to do
  • A. Analysing your findings

  • B. Reaching a decision


Additional materials:
  • Information sheet: Thinking creatively about what you can do - treatment in context


  • C. Communicating your decision


3.4. Want to know more?

Access chapter 4: Putting treatment into practice

4.1. Resources for HIV-related treatment work

4.2. Drugs for HIV-related treatment
  • A. Managing HIV-related drugs

  • B. The essential drugs concept

  • C. Choosing the right drugs

  • D. Drug names

(continued)
  • F. Guidelines for treatment

  • G. Fact Sheet – Antiretroviral drugs


4.3. Sourcing and looking after good quality drugs

  • A. Drug Quality

  • B. Sources of drugs

  • C. Storing drugs

  • D. Keeping records and ordering drugs


4.4. Providing drugs for people with HIV
  • A. Paying for HIV-related treatment

  • B. Drug information

  • C. Dispensing drugs

  • D. Managing transport for HIV-related treatment


4.5. Training and management for HIV-related treatment work

4.6. Want to know more?

Access chapter 5: Learning from and improving HIV/AIDS-related treatment work

5.1. Monitoring and evaluating HIV/AIDS-related treatment work
  • A. Keeping records of your work

  • B. Monitoring your work

  • C. Evaluating your work


5.2. Changing and improving HIV/AIDS-related treatment work
  • A. Making the most of new resources and linkages

  • B. Coping with changes

  • C. Sharing your experiences

  • D. Scaling-up, scaling-down or staying the same


5.3. Want to know more?

Source: Handbook on Access to Treatment
Full title: Mobilising NGOs, CBOs and PLHA Groups for Improving Access to HIV/AIDS-related Treatment: A Handbook of Information, Tools and Other Resources

Published by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), in June 2002.

It is available complete with drawings and tables in PDF format (which requires Adobe Acrobat) software by following these links:

Contents and credits (file size 200 Kbytes).

Read this first… to the end of Chapter 2 (file size 498 Kbytes).

Chapter 3 … to the end (file size 517 Kbytes).