A Randomized Trial of Point-of-Care Early Infant HIV Diagnosis in Zambia.
Carla J ChibweshaKatie R MollanCatherine E FordAaron ShibembaPooja T SahaMildred LusakaFelistas MbeweAndrew G AllmonRose LunguHans M L SpiegelEmmanuel MweniHumphrey MwapeChipepo KankasaBenjamin H ChiJeffrey S A StringerPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
POC EID eliminated diagnostic delays and accelerated ART initiation but did not translate into definitive improvement in 12-month outcomes. In settings where centralized EID is well functioning, POC EID is unlikely to improve pediatric HIV outcomes.