HIV drug resistance surveillance
Global and national policy decisions on antiretroviral therapy and HIV service delivery need to be informed by reliable national data on HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) prevalence and trends. HIV treatment and pre-exposure prophylaxis scale-up should be accompanied by measures to monitor the quality of antiretroviral drug delivery and surveillance of HIVDR.
Quality data should be obtained from periodic nationally representative HIVDR surveys among different populations.
WHO HIV drug resistance database
WHO has developed an HIVDR database as a global repository of HIVDR survey data. This database includes deidentified individual-level epidemiological information linked to HIV genome sequences. The WHO HIVDR database is a platform stored on a secure United Nations server. Countries are encouraged to use the database to manage data from HIVDR surveys.
The WHO HIVDR database has 4 main functions:
Database access is restricted to designated ministry of health and antiretroviral therapy programme users. Designated users may request access by contacting [email protected]