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Point‐of‐care testing can achieve same‐day diagnosis for infants and rapid ART initiation: results from government programmes across six African countries

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Point‐of‐care (POC) early infant diagnosis (EID) testing has been shown to dramatically decrease turnaround times from sample collection to caregiver result receipt and time to ART initiation for HIV‐positive infants… Click to show full abstract

Point‐of‐care (POC) early infant diagnosis (EID) testing has been shown to dramatically decrease turnaround times from sample collection to caregiver result receipt and time to ART initiation for HIV‐positive infants compared to centralized laboratory testing. As governments in sub‐Saharan Africa implement POC EID technologies, we report on the feasibility and effectiveness of POC EID testing and the impact of same‐day result delivery on rapid ART initiation within national programmes across six countries.

Keywords: programmes across; initiation; point care; rapid art; art initiation; across six

Journal Title: Journal of the International AIDS Society
Year Published: 2021

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