E-drug: New WHO ARV guidelines
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[Below a complete collection of docs on the new WHO ARV
treatment guidelines, and ARVs on the WHO Model List of Essential
Drugs. As usual, please 'repair' the url's as they wrap. Cross-
posted from Ip-health. Thanks. HH]
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I would like to inform you that WHO has posted the documents on
the new ARV treatment guidelines and on the inclusion of ARVs on
the Model List of Essential Drugs on its web-site, with the following
URLs:
Press release:
http://www.who.int/inf/en/pr-2002-28.html
Executive summary of new ARV guidelines:
http://www.who.int/HIV_AIDS/HIV_AIDS_Care/Executive%20sum-
April22v3.pdf
Full text of the new ARV guidelines (draft):
http://www.who.int/HIV_AIDS/HIV_AIDS_Care/ARV_Draft_April_20
02.pdf
Recommendations of the Expert Committee on the Selection and
Use of Essential Medicines and new Model List of Essential Drugs:
http://www.who.int/medicines/organization/par/edl/expertcomm.sht
ml
http://www.who.int/medicines/organization/par/edl/expertrecommen
d.shtml
I thought you would appreciate an easy way to access those
materials.
With best regards,
Jos Perri�ns, MD
Director Care a.i.
HIV/AIDS Department
World Health Organization
Office C 137
20 Avenue Appia
1211 Geneva 27
Tel: + (41) 22 791 44 56