Bibliographic Info
GuidelineConsolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection: recommendations for a public health approach
Year of Publication2016
Issuing InstitutionWHO
Recommendation
Status
Maintained
Certainty of evidence
Low
In HIV-infected adults, adolescents and children with a recent diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis, ART initiation should be deferred until there is evidence of a sustained clinical response to antifungal therapy, and after 4 weeks of induction and consolidation treatment with amphotericin B–containing regimens combined with flucytosine or fluconazole, or after 4–6 weeks of treatment with a high-dose oral fluconazole induction and consolidation regimen
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Originally Developed
Guideline
Rapid advice : diagnosis, prevention and management of cryptococcal disease in HIV-infected adults, adolescents and children
Year2011
InstitutionWorld Health Organization