In Haiti, Partners In Health had been providing antiretroviral therapy to patients with advanced AIDS since 1998 and, by 2001, had amassed significant clinical experience in the treatment of AIDS in a resource-poor setting.

This 226-page book presents the experience of a team of community health workers, nurses, doctors, laboratory technicians, social workers, and many others who developed an integrated HIV prevention and care project in rural Haiti.

The handbook is written to assist other programmes in implementing comprehensive HIV programmes in the "least developed" countries where the disease burden is highest. It is the hope of Partners in Health "that it will serve as a useful tool and field guide for the many health workers who are working to address the fundamental human right to health care and AIDS treatment and are undertaking the long-neglected work of providing HIV care in resource-poor settings".