From the Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya.
University of California, San Francisco, California.
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2018 Dec;37(12):1279-1281. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002142.
Efficient ways to identify children with HIV in the context of universal test-and-treat policies are needed. We evaluated a hybrid testing strategy combining mobile community and home-based HIV testing in 87,700 children across 32 rural communities in 2 East African countries. This approach resulted in 81% testing coverage of at-risk children and doubled the number of children diagnosed with HIV.
需要找到在普遍检测和治疗政策背景下识别 HIV 儿童的有效方法。我们在东非的 2 个国家的 32 个农村社区评估了一种混合检测策略,该策略结合了移动社区和家庭 HIV 检测。该方法使高危儿童的检测覆盖率达到 81%,并使 HIV 诊断儿童的数量增加了一倍。