Piloting the Feasibility and Preliminary Impact of Adding Birth HIV Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing to the Early Infant Diagnosis Guidelines in Kenya

BACKGROUND: In Kenya, standard early infant diagnosis (EID) with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing at 6-week postnatal achieves early treatment initiation (<12 weeks) in <20% of HIV+ infants. Kenya’s new early infant diagnosis guidelines tentatively proposed adding PCR testing at birth,...

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Autores principales: Finocchario-Kessler, Sarah, Wexler, Catherine, Brown, Melinda, Goggin, Kathy, Lwembe, Raphael, Nazir, Niaman, Gautney, Brad, Khamadi, Samoel, Babu, Shadrack, Muchoki, Elizabeth, Maosa, Nicodemus, Mabachi, Natabhona, Kamau, Yvonne, Maloba, May
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021
Materias:
HIV Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8274583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33990521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000003172

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8274583/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33990521
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/INF.0000000000003172

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