Under HIV in Infants and Children section from World Health Organization published on 2010 What Is This Guideline About? This guideline summarizes current knowledge on the methods of diagnosing HIV infection in infants and children and sets out recommendations for practice and policy. Recommendations are designed to improve clinical management of the HIV-exposed and infected child and improve programme efforts at early identification of HIV-exposed and ‑infected children. What Was Need For Guideline?
Recommendations on the use of appropriate HIV testing technologies and diagnostic approaches is needed. Clear and simple testing strategies are also necessary to facilitate early infant diagnosis and efficiently manage public health resources. Approaches to the clinical diagnosis of HIV infection are needed in settings where virological testing is not available. The timing of testing was…
