Reducing mortality in HIV-infected infants and achieving the 90-90-90 target through innovative diagnosis approaches
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Reducing mortality in HIV-infected infants and achieving the 90–90–90 target through innovative diagnosis approaches
INTRODUCTION Despite significant gains in access to early infant diagnosis (EID) over the past decade, most HIV-exposed infants still do not get tested for HIV in the first two months of life. For those who are tested, the long turnaround time between when the sample is drawn and when the results are returned leads to a high rate of loss to follow-up, which in turn means that few infected infan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International AIDS Society
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1758-2652
DOI: 10.7448/ias.18.7.20299