This report comes more than three years after Latin America and Caribbean countries committed to the target of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support, as set forth by the United Nations General Assembly High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS in 2006.

Guidelines for the Implementation of Reliable and Efficient diagnostic HIV Testing
R e g i o n   o f   t h e   A m e r i c a s
Washington, D.C.: PAHO, © 2008
ISBN 978 92 7 512904 3

Testing and counseling for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now recognized as a priority in national HIV programs because it is the gateway to HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support interventions. In order to ensure access to HIV testing for large populations and to facilitate access to antiretroviral treatment in the context of the World Health Organization's universal access strategy, radical scaling up of HIV testing and counseling services is urgently required.

Antiviral Therapy article
Antiviral Therapy 13 Suppl 2:25-36
Recommendations for surveillance of transmitted HIV drug resistance in countries scaling up antiretroviral treatment
January 13, 2008

PMTCT/Vertical transmission of HIV, ART/antiretroviral, Treatment 2.0, Elimination of MTCT of HIV and CS

Treatment 2.0, ART/antiretroviral

Antiviral Therapy article
Antiviral Therapy 13 Suppl 2:15-23
World Health Organization surveys to monitor HIV drug resistance prevention and associated factors in sentinel antiretroviral treatment sites
June 15, 2007

Antiviral Therapy article
Antiviral Therapy 13 Suppl 2:49-57
July 27, 2007

World Health Organization/HIVResNet Drug Resistance Laboratory Strategy