JAIDS supplement: Post-program learning and knowledge from the Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT) Initiative

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ACT supplement

Baylor-Malawi, with USAID funding, has developed a special JAIDS supplement featuring 11 articles which highlight lessons and best practices from the Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT) Initiative, a public-private partnership that expanded pediatric HIV services in nine sub-Saharan African countries from 2014-2016, providing treatment to more than 560,000 children living with HIV.

Articles include:

  1. ACTing in partnership to accelerate impact
  2. Multi-month prescription of antiretroviral therapy amongst children & adolescents: experiences from the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS initiative in six African countries 
  3. Community-based interventions to reach 95-95-95 for children & adolescents: An exploratory programmatic review from Lesotho
  4. Family testing: An index case finding strategy to close the gaps in pediatric HIV diagnosis 
  5. Strategies for identifying & linking HIV-infected infants, children & adolescents to HIV treatment services in resource limited settings 
  6. Beyond early infant diagnosis: changing the approach to HIV-exposed infants
  7. Zvandiri: Bringing an HIV programme to scale for children, adolescents & young people in Zimbabwe
  8. The case for family-centred differentiated service delivery for HIV 
  9. Getting treatment & care services right for children & adolescents to reach high viral suppression 
  10. Pediatric HIV treatment gaps in seven East & Southern African Countries: Examination of modeled data, survey data & routine program data 
  11. Sustainability & ACT Initiative: Lessons for the next treatment surge
July 25, 2018
Year of publication
2018
Resource types
Journal and research articles
Topics
Adherence, Retention in care, Viral suppression, Basic and Clinical Science, Diagnosis, Treatment, Care and treatment, Adherence/retention in care/attrition, ARV/ART, HIV programming and implementation science, Data use, Monitoring and evaluation, Scale-up and replication, Key and vulnerable populations, Adolescents, youth, and young people, Pregnant women, infants, and children, Prevention, Prevention of mother-to-child transmission, Prevention programming, Reproductive Health and Family Planning, Early Infant Diagnosis (EID), PMTCT
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Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT) Initiative, pediatric ART, community-based interventions, index cases, case finding, early infant diagnosis (EID), linkage to care, differentiated service delivery, pediatric HIV

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