Optimizing the World Health Organization algorithm for HIV vertical transmission risk assessment by adding maternal self-reported antiretroviral therapy adherence

• Main Authors: Sheila Fernández-Luis (Author), Maria Grazia Lain (Author), Miquel Serna-Pascual (Author), Sara Domínguez-Rodríguez (Author), Louise Kuhn (Author), Afaaf Liberty (Author), Shaun Barnabas (Author), Elisa Lopez-Varela (Author), Kennedy Otwombe (Author), Siva Danaviah (Author), Eleni Nastouli (Author), Paolo Palma (Author), Nicola Cotugno (Author), Moira Spyer (Author), Viviana Giannuzzi (Author), Carlo Giaquinto (Author), Avy Violari (Author), Mark F. Cotton (Author), Tacilta Nhampossa (Author), Nigel Klein (Author), Nastassja Ramsagar (Author), Anita Janse van Rensburg (Author), Osee Behuhuma (Author), Paula Vaz (Author), Almoustapha Issiaka Maiga (Author), Andrea Oletto (Author), Denise Naniche (Author), Paolo Rossi (Author), Pablo Rojo (Author), Alfredo Tagarro (Author), EPIICAL Consortium (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The World Health Organization (WHO) risk assessment algorithm for vertical transmission of HIV (VT) assumes the availability of maternal viral load (VL) result at delivery and early viral control 4 weeks after initiating antiretroviral treatment (ART). However, in many low-and-mi...