Description of Session
CONTEXT - transmission of HIV can occurred between mother and baby in broadly three opportunity phases: in utero, intra-partum or postnatal (likely breastfeeding) PROBLEM - despite the new guideline and broad adoption of both treatment and EID testing, south Africa has not been able to routinely establish the *route* of the few babies who are testing positive. SOLUTION - in this session, Palindrome will explain its collaboration with NICD and BU who have used a combination of National centralised DNA PCR lab data, Machine Learning for record linking as well as advanced analytics to show how transmission routes can be measured more accurately across the country.
