WHO Information Note: Novel Point-of-care Tools for Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV

The advent of point-of-care (POC) EID technologies is a breakthrough that creates the opportunity to increase coverage of EID testing. It will allow same-day test results and enable the initiation of earlier treatment, as well as address some of the key limitations of conventional EID networks – in particular long turnaround times for tests and high rates of loss to follow up.