Bibliographic information
GuidelineConsolidated HIV guidelines: service delivery
Year of Publication2026
Issuing InstitutionWorld Health Organization
Recommendation
New
Following an HIV-positive diagnosis, a package of support interventions should be offered to ensure timely linkage to care for all people with HIV
Recommended in favor
Strong
Certainty of evidence
Moderate
Notes and Remarks
The following interventions have demonstrated benefit in improving linkage to care following an HIV diagnosis:
- 1)streamlined interventions to reduce time between diagnosis and engagement in care, including (i) enhanced linkage with case management, (ii) support for HIV disclosure, (iii) patient tracing, (iv) training staff to provide multiple services and (v) streamlined services (moderate-quality evidence);
- 2)peer support and navigation approaches for linkage (moderate-quality evidence); and
- 3)quality improvement approaches using data to improve linkage (low-quality evidence).
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- quality improvement approaches using data to improve linkage (low-quality evidence).ches for linkage (moderate-quality evidence); and
- quality improvement approaches using data to improve linkage (low-quality evidence).