This app is intended as an additional resource to the toll-free National HIV & TB Health Care Worker Hotline, which South African healthcare workers can contact for assistance with queries relating to:
- HIV testing
- Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP): health care workers and sexual assault victims
- Management of HIV in pregnancy and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- When to initiate
- Treatment selection
- Recommendations for laboratory and clinical monitoring
- How to interpret and respond to laboratory results
- Management of adverse events
- Drug interactions
- Treatment and prophylaxis of opportunistic infections
- Drug availability
- Adherence support
- Management of tuberculosis
The use of this App and Services should not replace any formal medical advice or the services of a doctor or healthcare worker or medical professional. Please seek medical advice in addition to using this app before making any medical decisions.