This examines different service delivery strategies for actively finding HIV-positive children to determine levels of success with diagnosis, linkage to care and treatment initiation in Uganda.
Study activities include enrollment of HIV-positive children and their caregivers into a two-month prospective cohort and followed for two months to determine their linkage to care and treatment and extraction of facility-level data on HIV identification by strategy.
This study will also aim to identify steps in the PMTCT cascade at the individual, facility, and community levels in which HIV prevention, diagnosis, and care and treatment services were missed.