Best Practices in HIVAIDS Care

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Best Practices in HIV/AIDS Care
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WHAT IS MEANT BY BEST PRACTICE

• UNAIDS DEFINITION 
• Best practice means accumulating and applying
  knowledge about what is working and not working
  in different situations and contexts.
• Best practice is both lessons learned and the
  continuing process of learning, feedback,
  reflection and analysis (what works, how and why,
  etc.)
• DONT REINVENT THE WHEEL learn in order to
  improve it, and adapt it to your terrain to make
  it work better.

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THE PROCESS OF BEST PRACTICE

• Exchange of experience, sharing between
  individuals experts and Technical Resource
  Networks (TRNs)
• Pilot testing, research and other projects and
  programs. Everyday accumulated experience.
• Documentation including formats such as
  audiovisual cassettes, CDs, presentation
  graphics, internet.
• It is important to remember that BEST practice is
  not simply documentation, but an approach to
  sharing and using knowledge.

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OBJECTIVES OF BEST PRACTICE

• To strengthen capacity to identify, document,
  exchange, promote, use and adapt practice as
  lessons learned within a country and between
  countries as a means to expand the national
  response to HIV/AIDS
• To promote the application of the best practice
  process for policy formulation and to assist with
  strategy definition
• To collect, produce, disseminate and promote best
  practice

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WHERE DO BEST PRACTICES COME FROM?

• YOUR SHARED EXPERIENCES
• NGOS
• CBOS
• GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
• MASS MEDIA
• UNAIDS
• WHO
• WORLDBANK

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WHY DOCUMENT BEST PRACTICE?

• Provides brief and up-to-date information
  snapshots about the constructive and creative
  things people and organizations around the world
  are doing about HIV/AIDS is the main reasons Best
  Practice is documented and disseminated

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PARTNERSHIP

• Coordinated responses within countries
• Introducing the flexibility to identify gaps
• Improve efficiency in nationally negotiated plans
• A scaled-up response through more resources and
  better use of existing resources
• A linked response ensures that countries are
  properly linked to subregional, regional, and
  international resources and initiatives
• Multisectoral national response to HIV/AIDS

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Through collective efforts, promotion and
protection of human rights, promotion of poverty
alleviation Africa will

• Substantially reduce new infections
• Provide a continuum of care for those infected
  and affected by HIV/AIDS
• Mobilize and support communities, NGOs, the
  private sector and individuals to counteract the
  negative impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa

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What are Best Care Practices?

• Standardised clinical management approaches
• Based on Clinical Guidelines
• With evidence for effectiveness
• Defined interventions
• Suited to the practice environment
• Achieving minimum standards