Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapy & Management of Opportunistic Infections for Children, Adolescents & Adults Living with HIV

Overview

This guideline aims to provide guidance and support to health care workers involved in 
the HIV/AIDS clinical management, including ART and OI, in Timor-Leste. Recently, 
WHO has come out with many new updates based on the evidence from other clinical 
trials. The latest guideline brought out in July 2019 provides an evidence-based 
recommendation for use of dolutegravir-based triple ART.
The national guideline development has been developed in close consultation with the 
Technical Working Group for ART in Timor-Leste and supported by WHO. The guideline 
aims at:

 1. Revising and consolidating existing ART and OI guidelines and incorporate 
WHO recommendations for all age groups, gender and populations

2. Providing a standard approach for the use of ART with uniform recording and 
reporting formats

3. Providing a transition plan for shifting to dolutegravir-based regimen.

WHO is committed to continue its support to the national program to End Inequities 
and End AIDS and to ensure that the country can meet the target of elimination of AIDS 
as a public health problem by 2030

WHO Team
Timor-Leste