With timely and effective diagnosis and treatment, people living with advanced HIV can survive cryptococcal meningitis, the second leading cause of AIDS-related mortality after tuberculosis. However, with more than with more than 600,000 AIDS-related deaths each year over the past four years, interventions proven to save lives are not being implemented quickly enough.
This issue brief examines findings from the Advanced HIV Disease (AHD) Dashboard. Developed by the HIV Policy Lab with support from DNDi, the dashboard tracks, visualizes, and compares national guidelines across 35 African countries to understand the pace and scale of adoption of WHO-recommended treatment guidelines shown to reduce deaths from AHD and cryptococcal meningitis.
