Linkage of HIV-infected infants from diagnosis to antiretroviral therapy services across the Western Cape, South Africa.

INTRODUCTION: Early infant diagnosis (EID) of HIV infection is an important service to reduce paediatric morbidity and mortality related to HIV/AIDS. Although South Africa has a national EID programme based on PCR testing, there are no population-wide data on the linkage of infants testing HIV PCR-p...

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Main Authors: Nei-Yuan Hsiao, Kathryn Stinson, Landon Myer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3566187?pdf=render