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New HIV testing equipment to save infants in Kenya

More HIV-positive infants will be saved thanks to the latest equipment that drastically reduces the time required to get results after screening.

The current method of testing HIV in infants, dried blood spot testing (DBS), takes three to six weeks to give results.

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