Where have all the children gone? High HIV prevalence in infants attending nutrition and inpatient entry points.

CONCLUSIONS: Expanding routine early infant diagnosis screening beyond the traditional PMTCT setting to nutrition and inpatient entry points will increase the identification of HIV-infected infants. Careful reflection for appropriate testing strategies, such as maternal re-testing to identify new HIV infections and HIV-exposed infants in need of follow-up testing and care, at immunization and outreach services should be considered given the expectedly low prevalence rates. These findings may help HIV care programmes significantly expand testing to improve access to early infant diagnosis and paediatric treatment. PMID: 29479861 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29479861?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of the International AIDS Society - February 28, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: J Int AIDS Soc Source Type: research