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Chapter 5. Data Collection Tools and How to Fill Them
Table 11. Sample List of Needed Paediatric ARVs
Paediatric ARV First-Line Drug
1 Efavirenz 50 mg or 100 mg EFV
2 Efavirenz syrup EFV
3 Nevirapine syrup 10 mg/ml NVP
4 Lamivudine syrup 10 mg/ml 3TC
5 Zidovudine 100 mg tab ZDV
6 Zidovudine syrup 10 mg/ml ZDV
7 Stavudine 15 mg D4T
8 Stavudine 20 mg D4T
9 Stavudine syrup D4T
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Expected lists of non-ARV medicines would depend on the system. It would also depend on
the most common opportunistic infections and comorbidities. If the non-ARV medicines are
present in a hospital pharmacy different than for the ART clinic, those medicines would not
be counted as being present.
If the stock records are incomplete, it may be difficult or impossible to know the number of
days that each medicine has been in or out of stock in the last 90 days. The pharmacist,
however, may know if there have been any stock outs, in which case you can just ask whether
there have been any stock outs in the last three months for each medicine.
Table 12. Sample List of Key Non-ARV Medicines
Key Non-ARV Drugs
1 Co-trimoxazole tabs 480 or 960 mg
2 Co-trimoxazole susp 240 mg/5ml
3 Fluconazole tabs 150 or 200 mg
4 Miconazole gel
5 Erythromycin tabs 250 or 500 mg
6 Nystatin oral drops 10,000 IU/ml
7 Acyclovir 200 mg
8 Acyclovir cream
9 Folic acid 5 mg
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The facility questionnaire is relatively simple to fill in (Annex 2C).
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