Open AccessPiloting the Feasibility and Preliminary Impact of Adding Birth HIV Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing to the Early Infant Diagnosis Guidelines in Kenya
Author(s) -
Sarah Finocchario-Kessler,
Catherine Wexler,
Melinda Brown,
Kathy Goggin,
Raphael Lwembe,
Niaman Nazir,
Brad Gautney,
Samoel Khamadi,
Shadrack Babu,
Elizabeth Muchoki,
Nicodemus Maosa,
Natabhona Mabachi,
Yvonne Kamau,
May Maloba
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000003172
Subject(s) - medicine , kenya , pediatrics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , obstetrics , immunology , law , political science
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, pending results from pilot studies.