{"id":10956,"date":"2015-12-11T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=10956"},"modified":"2015-12-11T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T14:49:29","slug":"how-do-i-know-that-i-am-getting-the-right-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/10956","title":{"rendered":"How do i know that i am getting the right care?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Most countries, including South Africa, have national treatment guidelines. These are documents that say how a people with HIV should be cared for. They usually cover many things including when to start on what medication.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahivsoc.org\/upload\/documents\/HIV%20guidelines%20_Jan%202015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">South African HIV guidelines <\/a>can be accessed online.<\/p>\n<p>There are also international guidelines. These are written by the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO is part of the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>You can also find<a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/hiv\/pub\/guidelines\/earlyrelease-arv\/en\/\"> WHO HIV treatment guidelines<\/a> on their website.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel that you are not getting the right treatment you should speak to your clinic and show them the national guidelines. If this doesn&#8217;t work you can contact the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). TAC is an organisation that works on HIV treatment advocacy in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tac.org.za\/community\/contact\">Treatment Action Campaign contact details<\/a>\u00a0can be found on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in South Africa, how do know that i am getting treated the way i&#8217;m supposed too?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,49,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics","category-south-africa","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}