Many national and international organisations produce guidelines for the clinical management and treatment of HIV and related complications.
Most guidelines outline best practice and minimum standards of care developed from evidence-based medicine, but newly emerging issues are also dependent on expert opinion and interpretation of sometimes conflicting research.
Guidelines can also date quickly so please always note the date any document was produced and how frequently it is updated.
UK guidelines: BHIVA
The British HIV Association (BHIVA) produce the following published national guidelines.
All publications are available from the BHIVA site as free access.
In HIV Medicine journal
- Management of co-infection with HIV-1 and hepatitis B or C virus (2010)
- Immunization of HIV-infected adults (2008)
- UK Guidelines for the management of sexual and reproductive health of people living with HIV infection (2008)
- Treatment of HIV-1 infected adults with antiretroviral therapy (2008)
- Management of HIV infection in pregnant women (2008)
- HIV-Associated Malignancies (2008)
- Kidney Transplantation for patients with HIV disease (2005)
- Adherence (2001)
Web publication only
- Addendum to BHIVA Treatment Guidelines (2009)
- Determining HIV-1 tropism in routine clinical practice (2009)
Other published guidelines
- UK National Guidelines for HIV Testing (2008)
The BHIVA website includes a pages for guidelines that are in preparation and also has a sections for archive guidelines.
European guidelines (EACS)
The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) produces guidelines on three aspects of HIV management.
- ARV treatment guidelines
- Management of complications both from HIV and side effects from ARVs
- Co-infection with HBV and/or HCV
The three 2009 guidelines are available as a single PDF file.
They are also available to download separately.
The full guidelines are also online, including important resources and tables that were not included in the print version.
Translations of the earlier (2007) guidelines are still online, and the 2009 guidelines are also due to be translated.
PENTA guidelines
The Paediatric Network for Treatment of AIDS (PENTA) produce guidelines for antitretrovial treatment in children.
The 2009 guidelines are available as a PDF download from this page.
US guidelines (DHHS)
The US National Institute for Health (NIH) Department of Health and Human Sciences (DHHS) produce the following national guidelines. Updates and changes to previous versions are very helpfully highlighted in yellow.
Links are to download pages for each publication on aidsinfo.nih.gov.
- Adult and adolescent guidelines
- Perinatal guidelines
- Paediatric guidelines
- Prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections
- Prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in children
World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines
The WHO produces over 20 guidelines on different aspects of HIV treatment, testing and care.
The most recent major update of the ARV guidelines for adults and adolescents was in November 2009.