Observational studyJournal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
Point-of-Care Early Infant Diagnosis Improves Adherence to the Testing Algorithm in Kenya.
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- Investigating strategies to enhance access to HIV services among children in Malawi: A multifaceted research approach, study protocol.PloS one · 2026Article
- High Prevalence of Unconfirmed Positive HIV Polymerase Chain Reaction Test Results Among African Infants With HIV Exposure in the International Epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS Consortium.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024Article
- Delays in HIV-1 infant polymerase chain reaction testing may leave children without confirmed diagnoses in the Western Cape province, South Africa.African journal of laboratory medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionWe determine the level of adherence to the revised Kenya early infant diagnosis (EID) algorithm during implementation of a point-of-care (POC) EID project.
methodsData before (August 2016 to July 2017) and after (August 2017 to July 2018) introduction of POC EID were collected retrospectively from the national EID database and registers for 33 health facilities. We assessed the number of HIV-infected infants who underwent confirmatory testing and received baseline viral load test and proportion of infants with an initial negative result who had a subsequent test. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: Significantly higher number of infants accessed confirmatory testing (94.2% versus 38.6%;
conclusionThe POC EID implementation has the potential to increase proportion of infants who receive confirmatory testing, thus reducing the risk of false-positive results.
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