Table 2.

Time to ART initiation, HIV‐positive infants, Thailand, 2015 to 2018

Median time from birth to collection of first‐positive PCR	Median time from blood collection to hospital notification of positive PCR result	Median time from notification of +PCR result in routine system to notification of the central laboratory CM	Median time from notification of central laboratory CM of positive PCR to notification of regional CM	Median time from notification of regional CM to ART initiation
60 days (IQR 28 to 132)	16 days (IQR 11 to 22)	0 days (IQR 0 to 1)	0 days (IQR 0 to 1)	6 days (IQR 1 to 16)
Time from birth to ART initiation: 83 days (IQR 48 to 159)
	Time from blood collection to ART initiation: 23 (IQR 15 to 34)

ART, antiretroviral therapy; CM, case manager; IQR, Interquartile range; PCR, polymerase chain reaction.