Manuals

The PIH Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings (Second Edition)
Partners In Health has published an updated and expanded second edition of The PIH Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings. The manual is available both in print and in an interactive, on-line version that allows readers to share insights about the manual and lessons from work in the field. Drawing on PIH's experience since 1998 treating HIV patients in rural Haiti, the guide includes clinical protocols and guidelines for managing HIV-positive patients, as well as information about how to initiate a comprehensive HIV prevention and treatment program.

A DOTS-Plus Handbook Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of MDR TB
Forms of tuberculosis untreatable with first-line drugs pose challenges quite unlike those posed by other resistant pathogens: an airborne bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis is already a leading infectious cause of adult deaths in the world. In communities where MDR TB is already a public-health emergency,much can be done to turn the tide. Effective therapy-based programs — “DOTS-Plus” — are an essential part of a humane response to suffering and will contain further spread.

PIH Guide to the Medical Management of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis
This guide is intended to be a resource for physicians and other health care professionals who provide care and treatment to patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in DOTS-Plus projects in resource-poor areas.

MDR TB Flipchart And Brochure From Socios en Salud