Reach, Acceptability, Feasibility and Impact of a Brief Community Health Worker‐Administered Index Case Testing Screening Tool “cICT” on Paediatric HIV Case Identification: Results From Malawi
The cICT was acceptable and feasible to implement, revealing nearly a quarter of WLHIV had children with unknown HIV status. The tool's simplicity and scalability make it a high-impact approach for HIV programmes to quantify, track and confirm the status of HIV-exposed untested children and facilitate timely identification of CLHIV by embedding ICT screening within routine ART care for WLHIV.
Authors
- Katherine Simon
- Albert Kaonga
- Tapiwa Tembo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5649-0817)
- Elijah Kavuta
- Carrie M. Cox
- Steven Masiano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2163-7313)
- Brown Chiwandira
- Dhrutika Vansia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1370-0180)
- Khumbo Namachapa
- Saira Ahmed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0520-1089)
- Rachael Wanjiru Manyeki
- Rose Nyirenda
- Brigid O'Brien
- Elizabeth Wetzel
- Maria H. Kim
- Linley Hauya
Institutions
- Cleveland Clinic (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Public Health Institute of Malawi (MW)
- Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (MW)
- Ministry of Health (MW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the International AIDS Society
- Published
- 2026-03-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jia2.70095
- Primary Topic
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00