Newborn care and postnatal follow up

Clinical description

• Follow regular post-natal care.
• Give all regular EPI vaccinations to all babies born to HIV infected mothers (as for all other infants).
• Give HIV self-test (s) for all sexual partners on discharge from maternity, instruct HIV positive sexual

partners to return for immediate ART initiation.

• Offer HTS to all women not known to be HIV positive at the 6-9 month family planning or infant

vaccination visit.

• See Figure 6 below for the standard schedule of HIV exposed child follow-up: infant prophylaxis,

CPT, feeding and HIV testing Figure 6: Standard follow-up schedule for HIV exposed children