MULAGO Hospital and Uganda Virus Institute have acquired new machines that will enable babies as young as one month to be tested for HIV.
Previously, babies could only be tested at the age of 18 months.
This was revealed by Mildmay Centre director Dr. Emmanuel Luyirika, during a breakfast meeting at Sheraton Hotel, Kampala on Wednesday.
This will greatly reduce the infant mortality rate, which was partly caused by the failure to test the HIV virus early enough.
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