Person-centred HIV patient monitoring

HIV patient monitoring is essential to ensure the quality and continuity of HIV care, as well as treatment for adults, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and infants and children. It generates data that enable programmes to monitor the treatment and health status of patients over time, and to measure programme performance across health facilities and geographical settings.

Patient monitoring systems also serve as the underlying data source for programme monitoring, making them an integral part of health information systems and the overall health system in many countries. They contribute to the delivery of HIV services, as well as a range of integrated services including HIV and tuberculosis, and HIV and maternal, child and newborn health.

An effective HIV patient monitoring system also permits the measurement of standardized indicators at the subnational and national levels for in-country and global reporting.