A call for health systems to monitor the health-related quality of life of people living with HIV.
Jeffrey Victor LazarusMarie-Claire Van HoutMaría José Fuster-Ruiz de ApodacaGraham BrownGiovanni GuaraldiPublished in: HIV medicine (2022)
We urge national health systems not to wait for WHO to lead on this issue. Seeking good HRQoL outcomes for PLHIV can confer far-reaching benefits on health systems. The feasibility of monitoring population-level HRQoL has been demonstrated through the use of simple tools like patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs). Many countries can already set HRQoL monitoring targets, similar to those presented in this viewpoint, while we work toward an agreed minimum metric for use by all countries.