Table 1 Potential role of HIV care & treatment intake and follow up forms for NCD services

Intake forms

Facilitate patient enrolment into HIV care

Help establish appropriate patient-health worker relationships

Systematically identify barriers and facilitators to adherence to ART

Identify potential barriers to compliance with treatment

Collect baseline information on comorbidities, opportunistic infections(OIs), support system, disease stage

Identify comorbidities, complications, disease stage, and support system

Aid adherence and risk behavior counselling

Organize counseling on lifestyle modification such as diet, exercise, and other issues

Help in treatment planning

Facilitates treatment planning

Follow up forms

Provides information on pattern of follow up

Ensuring regular follow up

Type and duration of treatment

Treatment type and compliance monitoring

Assessment of need for change in treatment

Assessment of whether treatment is working or not and need for change

Early detection and management of drug side effects

Can help structure lifestyle changes counselling

Organized screening and monitoring of common complications (early detection)

Facilitate systematic side effects monitoring and management

Facilitates and reminds important lab testing

Facilitates systematic clinical and laboratory screening of complications and other risk factors

Helps provide other care in integrated manner (family planning, STI)

Integrating service packages

Guides objective and frequent assessment of adherence to treatment and

Organizes treatment and care history and ensures continuity of care in case of staff rotations and turnover

Facilitates planning for next appointment

Joint planning of next appointment and setting treatment targets

Provide data for research and cohort monitoring

Support research on NCDs

Facilitates referral to various services