Diagnosis
The first step in providing life-saving treatment is to ensure access to timely and accurate diagnosis for all HIV-exposed children as early as possible.
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Credits
HIV Point-of-Care Diagnostics Toolkitincludes tools and guidance on the introduction of point-of-care early infant diagnosis technologies.
Policy brief: Family-based index case testing to identify children with HIVsupports expanded use of highly effective testing of family members of "index" cases.
Policy brief on the indeterminate range of early infant diagnosis tests aims to help minimize the risk of false positive results in infants, in order to avoid putting them on treatment unnecessarily.
HIV diagnosis and ARV use in HIV-exposed infants: a programmatic updateprovides lessons learned from early adopters of innovative approaches, in order to identify and prevent HIV in exposed infants.
Cost-effectiveness of Infant HIV Testing Strategies web toolis designed to estimate the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of screening mothers at immunization visits to determine infant exposure, followed by diagnostic testing of exposed infants compared to the currently WHO-recommended EID strategy.
Clinical and Economic Value of Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling (PITC) in Children web toolis designed to estimate clinical outcomes and cost-effectiveness of provider-intiated HIV testing and counseling (PITC) compared to no PITC.