The next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the production and decay
rate of a Higgs boson are computed within the framework of the Minimal
Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The calculation is based on an
effective theory for light and intermediate mass Higgs bosons. We provide a
Fortran routine for the numerical evaluation of the coefficient function.
For most of the MSSM parameter space, the relative size of the NLO
corrections is typically of the order of 5% smaller than the Standard Model
value. We exemplify the numerical results for two scenarios: the benchmark
point SPS1a, and a parameter region where the gluon-Higgs
coupling at leading order is very small due to a cancellation of the squark
and quark contributions.
