NIH Guidelines

The Office of AIDS Research of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored the NIH Panel To Define Principles of Therapy of HIV Infection. This Panel was asked to delineate the scientific principles, based on NIH understanding of the biology and pathogenesis of HIV infection and disease, that should be used to guide the most effective use of antiretroviral therapy and viral load testing in clinical practice.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation sponsored the Panel on Clinical Practices for the Treatment of HIV Infection. The HHS Panel was charged with developing recommendations, based on the scientific principles, for the clinical use of antiretroviral drugs and laboratory monitoring methods in the treatment of HIV-infected individuals.

Current and archived Treatment Guidelines are available from AIDSinfo, a library of information about federally approved treatment guidelines for HIV and AIDS.