Managing an Admitted Patient with HIV

People with advanced HIV disease are at very high risk of opportunistic infections and deaths. Despite good progress worldwide towards goals of HIV testing, establishing people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and ensuring effective HIV viral suppression (95-95-95), advanced HIV disease remains a persistent problem. About one fifth of people living with HIV admitted to hospital don’t survive their hospital admission, and of those who survive, nearly a third die or are readmitted to hospital within a year. 1 CPD point has been allocated.