By the end of 2020, there were an estimated 800,000 children living with HIV not receiving ARV treatment globally. These children are at risk of HIV disease progression leading to immune system suppression and the development of AIDS. Analysis of the 95-95-95 cascade has shown that most of these children have never been tested and/or diagnosed for HIV. To reverse this trend there is an urgent need to apply and scale up effective approaches that will allow for streamlining of early diagnosis of HIV among children of all ages and effectively linking them with care and treatment services. This satellite session will demonstrate that this task is achievable if HIV-specific interventions for testing (e.g. provider-initiated testing, community/family testing, self-testing) are integrated with programmes for primary health care strengthening that engage communities as key partners. A series of short presentations will be preceded by an opening panel discussion and conclude with a solution-focused dialogue with implementers, leading experts from the field, and people living with HIV on their thoughts for the way forward to scale up HIV testing and improve treatment outcomes for children.

• Presentations
• Session recording (English)