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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病毒载量检测与早期婴儿诊断检测在莫桑比克诊断婴儿感染艾滋病毒的性能相当：一项前瞻性观察研究

病毒载量测试对于控制 HIV 疾病至关重要，尤其是在婴儿和儿童中。婴儿早期诊断 (EID) 使用核酸检测对 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。精简实验室系统将有利于改善获得质量检测的机会并提高抗逆转录病毒治疗方案的效率。我们评估了病毒载量测试在 18 个月以下儿童中用作 EID 检测的性能。