TABLE 2.

Design of Quality Improvement Collaborative Indicators Used in Cameroon and Zambia to Improve Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation

	Cameroon	Zambia
EID testing coverage and timing	Percentage of eligible HEIs who received EID testing at <8 weeks of age	Percentage of HEIs tested who received EID testing at <8 weeks of age
	Number of eligible HEIs tested for HIV at >8 weeks of age	Number of HEIs tested for HIV at >8 weeks of age
	Number of eligible HEIs tested each month	Number of HEIs tested each month
Test results return to caregiver	Percentage of HEIs tested who were identified as HIV infected each month	Percentage of HEIs tested who were identified as HIV infected each month
	Percentage of all HEI HIV test results returned to caregiver this month	Percentage of HEIs identified as HIV infected whose caregivers received their results this month
Turnaround time	Mean time from health facility receiving HEI HIV test results from national laboratory and sharing with caregiver	Mean time between positive EID HIV test result and ART initiation
ART initiation	Percentage of HIV-infected infants newly initiated on ART each month	Percentage of HIV-infected infants initiated on ART each month
		Percentage of HIV-infected infants initiated on ART the same day their positive test was received each month
		Percentage of HIV-infected infants initiated on ART within 2 weeks of receiving positive test results each month

Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy; EID, early infant diagnosis; HEI, HIV-exposed infant.