Viral load assay performs comparably to early infant diagnosis assay to diagnose infants with HIV in Mozambique: a prospective observational study
J. int. aids soc; 23 (), 2020
Introduction: Viral load testing is essential to manage HIV disease, especially in infants and children. Early infant diagnosis (EID) is performed using nucleic-acid testing in children under 18 months. Resource-limited health systems face severe challenges to scale-up both viral load and EID to unpreced...
HIV Infections/diagnosis, HIV Infections/virology, HIV-1/genetics, HIV-1/isolation & purification, HIV-1/physiology, Infant, Newborn, Diseases/diagnosis, Infant, Newborn, Diseases/virology, Mozambique, Sensitivity and Specificity, Prospective Studies, Viral Load/methods, Viremia/diagnosis, Viremia/virology