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Table 3 SADC member state guidelines and the reference standard guidelines

From: Clinical practice guidelines within the Southern African development community: a descriptive study of the quality of guideline development and concordance with best evidence for five priority diseases

SADC countries

HIV therapy in adults

Malaria therapy in adults and children

Diarrhoea therapy in children

Hypertension therapy in primary care

Pre-eclampsia therapy

Primary care clinical practice guidelineiv

Angola

N/Ai

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Botswana

2008ii

2007

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Democratic Republic of Congo

2005 (French)iii

2005 (French)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Lesotho

2010 draft

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

2005

Malawi

2008

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

2009

Mauritius

2009 (French)

?date

N/A

?date

N/A

N/A

Mozambique

2009 (Portuguese)

2006 (Portuguese)

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Namibia

2009

2005

N/A

N/A

N/A

2010

Seychelles

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

2003

South Africa

2010

2009

N/A

2006

N/A

2008

Swaziland

2006

2009

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Tanzania

2005

2006

N/A

N/A

N/A

2007

Zambia

2007

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

2008

Zimbabwe

2010 draft

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

2006

Standard reference guideline

World Health Organization, 201019

World Health Organization, 201020

World Health Organization, 200522,23

National Institute for Clinical Excellence 200424-26

Royal College of Obstetricians Gynaecologists, 200621

 
  1. i N/A indicates that the guideline was not available during the search period
  2. ii Dates of publication indicated where was available. Where date was not clear we have indicated this with '?date'
  3. iii The language of the guideline-if other than English-is indicated in brackets
  4. iv Primary care guidelines were used to assess alignment when no disease-specific guideline existed
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