Despite increased testing for HIV exposed infants, linkage and enrolment into care was low. Project data revealed that only 50% of HIV exposed infants were linked to care and 25% of infected infants were linked.
Teams at the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health units developed a linkage register to aid in training identified HIV exposed infected infants
Use of a linkage register by midwives and clinicians in the ART clinic improves enrolment of HIV exposed and infected infants into care
- Linkage and enrollment into care for HIV exposed infants improved from 50% to 73% from December 2011 to June 2013
Linkage and enrollment into cate for HIV infected infants improved from 25% to 89% from December 2011 to June 2013
- Following orientation of health workers on WHO 2010 guidelines, the teams identified the gap
- Process teams developed changes around improvement in linkage and enrolment
- Improved use of a counter book to document referral status of children from ANC to ART clinics
All healthcare providers in MNCH, ANC and ART clinics
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