The best learning and practices from the Accelerating Children’s HIV/AIDS Treatment (ACT) Initiative will be published as an August 2018 JAIDS supplement. This satellite is a companion discussion to widely disseminate timely lessons for improving pediatric HIV care globally. Between 2014 and 2016—in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—ACT rapidly identified children living with HIV (CLHIV) and placed them on treatment. By project end, ACT was supporting 561,610 children (≤ age 19) with high-quality treatment; the number of children under age 15 receiving treatment had increased by 44% across all countries; and ACT had tested 16,431,861 children (≤ age 19) for HIV, with 468,149 found HIV-positive. Results were remarkable given that at ACT launch, fewer than half (44%) of the estimated 1.9 million CLHIV worldwide were receiving ART. This satellite has global stakeholder relevance as countries accelerate efforts to ensure that CLHIV are treated.

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