An audit of antiretroviral medication offered to patients with HIV attending a district general hospital for outpatient care

In order to determine if antiretroviral prescribing for patients with HIV i nfection attending the Central Middlesex Hospital is according to current U K guidelines and effective at reducing the serum HIV viral load, 71 case no tes were reviewed. All patients eligible for treatment according to the Bri tish HIV Association (BHIVA) guidelines were currently being offered triple therapy. The most recent serum HIV viral loads of patients taking at least 3 antiretrovirals were undetectable in 75% of the 20 patients on their fir st established regimen and 36% of 14 patients who had failed at least one d rug according to previous surrogate marker results. Such work allows an ind ividual clinic to monitor its antiretroviral prescribing practices in the f ace of constantly updated information and guidelines.