Standard monitoring of HIV patients

Clinical description

• Exposed children and ART patients need the same standard clinical assessment at every clinical

visit.

• Check actively – do not rely on patients to report problems unprompted.
• The Standard Clinical Monitoring Checklist (Table 7 on page 38) helps to find:

o HIV-related diseases o ART failure o Drug side effects (ART, TB, CPT, TPT, etc.)

• It can be difficult to distinguish HIV-related diseases from side effects. An ambiguous symptom

is likely a side-effect if it started / worsened after starting medication / improves after stopping.