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Single question on maternal HIV status most effective for identifying children with undiagnosed HIV

STARS/Kristian Buus. Creative Commons licence. Image is for illustrative purposes only.

Top 5 stories on HIV in Africa from CROI 2023

Dr Elijah Kakande (third from left) who presented the PrEP uptake study at CROI 2023. Photo by Roger Pebody.

Point-of-care viral load tests at delivery improve early preventive treatment for children at risk of HIV

Mother and child at Maputo HIV clinic. Image by Talea Miller, PBS NewsHour. Creative Commons licence.

Botswana is ‘going for gold’ in eliminating vertical HIV transmission. Can the rest of Africa catch up?

mothers2mothers/USAID Southern Africa. Creative Commons licence.

Uncontrolled HIV causes the majority of deaths in children with HIV in western Kenya

Children in Kenya.

High rates of adolescents living with undiagnosed HIV in five high-burden countries

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation/DFID. Creative Commons licence. Image is for illustrative purposes only.

One in five children on ART still lost to follow-up, while disparities between low- and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa persist

Image by Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation/DFID - UK Department for International Development. Creative Commons licence.

India progresses towards eliminating vertical transmission of HIV but is not there yet

A trained health worker collecting a blood sample from a pregnant women for HIV testing. Plan India-Ahana Project.

Finding the missing children: paediatric index testing expands in Africa

Image from Hilary Wolf's online AIDS 2020 presentation.