Abstract Purpose of Review This review offers an operational definition of systems
engineering (SE) as applied to public health, reviews applications of SE in the field of HIV …

Objective: We measured the effect of point-of-care (POC) early infant HIV testing on
antiretroviral therapy initiation rates and retention in care among infants in Mozambique …

Background: Despite significant gains made toward improving access, early infant diagnosis
(EID) testing programs suffer from long test turnaround times that result in substantial loss to …

Introduction The scale‐up of effective HIV viral load (VL) testing is an urgent public health
priority. Implementation of testing is supported by the availability of accurate, nucleic acid …

Early diagnosis of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among infants born to HIV-
infected mothers is critical because roughly 50% of untreated infected infants die before the …

Summary Background The HIV Infant Tracking System (HITSystem) is a web-based
intervention linking providers of early infant diagnosis, laboratory technicians, and mothers …

Background Early infant diagnosis of HIV infection is challenging in rural sub-Saharan Africa
as blood samples are sent to central laboratories for HIV DNA testing, leading to delays in …

Early infant diagnosis (EID) programs in many resource-limited settings are aimed at
diagnosing infants born to HIV-infected mothers. Because of the complexity of the diagnostic …

Problem definition: Healthcare systems in resource-limited settings rely on diagnostic
networks in which medical samples (eg, blood, sputum) and results need to be transported …

Long turnaround times (TAT) for the processing and posting of results of infant HIV DNA
PCR samples can hinder the success of early infant diagnosis (EID) programs. The …