TABLE 4.
Improvements in Early Infant Diagnosis, Timely Return of Test Results, and Antiretroviral Initiation From Baseline to Endline After Implementing a Quality Improvement Collaborative Approach, Cameroon
| Indicators | Baseline Oct. 2015–Feb. 2016 |
Implementation Mar. 2016–Jun. 2017 |
Endline Feb. 2017–Jun. 2017 |
Change Base to End |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EID testing | Eligible HEIs who received EID DBS at <8 weeks of age, % | 57 | 71 | 82 | 24 |
| Eligible HEIs who received EID DBS at >8 weeks of age, % | 42 | 29 | 20 | −22 | |
| Return of test results | HEIs tested who were identified as HIV infected, % | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 |
| All HEIs tested whose EID DBS PCR test results were documented and shared with caregiver, % | 18 | 81 | 86 | 68 | |
| Mean time from facility receiving results from laboratory to results being reported to caregiver, days | 19 | 8 | 3 | −16 | |
| ART initiation | HIV-infected infants newly initiated on ART, % | 33 | 51 | 89 | 56 |
Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy; DBS, dried blood sample; EID, early infant diagnosis; HEI, HIV-exposed infant; PCR, polymerase chain reaction.