App Profile: SA HIV/TB Hotline

This app is intended as an additional resource to the toll-free National HIV & TB Health Care Worker Hotline, which South African healthcare workers can contact for assistance with queries relating to:

- HIV testing

- Post exposure prophylaxis (PEP): health care workers and sexual assault victims

- Management of HIV in pregnancy and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)

- Antiretroviral Therapy

- When to initiate

- Treatment selection

- Recommendations for laboratory and clinical monitoring

- How to interpret and respond to laboratory results

- Management of adverse events

- Drug interactions

- Treatment and prophylaxis of opportunistic infections

- Drug availability

- Adherence support

- Management of tuberculosis

The use of this App and Services should not replace any formal medical advice or the services of a doctor or healthcare worker or medical professional. Please seek medical advice in addition to using this app before making any medical decisions.