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 unprecedented levels. Streamlining laboratory systems would be beneficial to improve access to quality testing and to increase efficiency of antiretroviral treatment programmes. We evaluated the performance of viral load testing to serve as an EID assay in children younger than 18 months.

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莫桑比克病毒载量测定与早期婴儿诊断测定在诊断艾滋病毒婴儿方面的表现相当：一项前瞻性观察研究


病毒载量检测对于控制艾滋病毒疾病至关重要，尤其是婴儿和儿童。早期婴儿诊断 (EID) 通过核酸检测对 18 个月以下的儿童进行。资源有限的卫生系统面临着将病毒载量和 EID 扩大到前所未有的水平的严峻挑战。简化实验室系统将有利于改善质量检测的机会并提高抗逆转录病毒治疗计划的效率。我们评估了病毒载量测试的性能，以作为 18 个月以下儿童的 EID 检测。