Use of peers, community lay persons and Village Health Team (VHT) members improves six-week postnatal clinic (PNC) follow-up and Early Infant HIV Diagnosis (EID) in urban and rural health units in Uganda: A one-year implementation study

Table 3 HIV DNA PCR testing for infants up to 14 weeks of age from July 2010 to June 2011

	All HIV-exposed infants at health unit^b		Study participants
	Infants HIV tested/ live birth (%)	Infants HIV tested / live birth, n (%)	Infants HIV tested/ live birth^a n (%)	HIV positive infants, n (%)	Proportional difference in infant HIV testing between study participants and All exposed infants at the hospital
Site	(Baseline)	(Post intervention)	(Post intervention)		% (P-value)
Mengo	304/374 (81.2)	439/442 (99.3)	73/75 (97.3)	2/75 (2.7)	-2.0 (P = 0.106)
Rubaga	374/506 (73.9)	437/540 (80.9)	71/74 (95.9)	2/74 (2.7)	15.0 (P = 0.001)
Mulago	1055/2411 (43.7)	1179/2178 (54.1)	269/327 (82.3)	8/327 (2.4)	28.2 (P < 0.001)
Mpigi	81/96 (84.4)	83/87 (95.4)	28/35 (80.0)	1 /35 (2.9)	-15.4 (P = 0.007)
Total	1814/3387 (53.6)	2138/3247 (65.8)	441/511 (86.3)	13 /511 (2.5)	20.5 (P < 0.001)

^aFor study participants we considered all registered live birth (whether at study site health unit or anywhere else), less infant or maternal death prior to 6 weeks (N=511)
^bFor all HIV-exposed infants at the site health units, live births records were only registered for women delivering at the unit (Information for infant death before 6-weeks was not available)

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