Early infant diagnosis of HIV
“All HIV exposed infants should be offered routine DNA PCR testing (early infant diagnosis) at the 6 week immunization visit or at the earliest opportunity for infants seen after 6 weeks of age”“Standard operation procedures for dried blood spots (DBS) collection for DNA PCR testing”“Required materials and equipments”“Pre-sample collection”“Blood collection”“Rejection criteria for DBS”“Packaging of DBS at site of collection”“Sending samples to the testing labs”“Receiving results”“NB: valid and reliable results critically depend on the quality of the samples taken!”“DBS collection technique”“1. Use heel prick for infants aged between 6weeks – 4months weighing < 6Kgs”“2. Use toe prick for infants aged between 5 months – 10 months weighing < 10 Kgs”“3. Use finger prick for larger infants”“Valid DBS samples”“Invalid DBS samples”“Drying and packaging”“Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation (MOPHS)Ministry of Medical Services (MOMS)”
Chiefly text poster detailing the procedure of testing infants for HIV, in 3 columns. The 3rd column has several color photographs of blood samples being taken, valid and invalid DBS samples, and the drying and packaging of samples.
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AIDS (Disease) in infantsAIDS (Disease)--TestingHIV (Viruses)Medical personnel
Kenya. Ministry of Public Health and SanitationKenya. Ministry of Medical Services
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