Management guidelines

Guidelines for the management of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have been developed in order to establish a consensus among experts and, more importantly, to make this available to those involved in clinical practice.

It is never the role of guidelines to provide a substitute for the clinical judgment of individual physicians, or to predetermine the needs of individual patients. This is especially true in the case of guidelines relating to HIV and HCV, management of which is typically highly individualized.

Nevertheless, as a distillation of experience, expertise and detailed discussion, guidelines can provide an invaluable practical resource.