शिशुमा प्रारम्भिक पहिचान - Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) [८६]

Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) service is available for babies born to the HIV-positive mothers to detect HIV status among exposed baby at the earliest. DNA PCR test is done for EID and conducted among the children below 18 months. EID through DNA PCR technology is available at National Public Health Laboratory (NPHL), Teku since September 2014. The EID testing is scaled to five Provincial Public Health Laboratory (PPHL) and two remote ART centres. Dried blood spot (DBS) samples for EID are collected from all ART sites and sent for EID testing.