General HIV_NB project information

Project name

HIV Viral load newborn

Project abbreviation

HIV_NB

Project code

HDBP0222

Primary organization that oversees implementation of project

• Sciensano

Partner organization participating in project

• Not available

Organization that commissioned this project

• National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance (RIZIV-INAMI)

Organization providing monetary or material support

Brief project description

All newborns from HIV positive mothers should be followed for exclusion of HIV infection during the first 18 months of their life. In Belgium, 2 types of tests are performed to monitor the HIV infection among newborns: DNA-PCR and RNA-PCR (VL) tests. Those tests are performed by the AIDS Reference Laboratories (ARL).

A request has been submitted by the service of Epidemiology of Infectious diseases of Sciensano to healthdata.be service concerning the creation of a new data collection definition to collect the data of the HIV-positive and HIV-negative newborns born from HIV positive mothers.