<p>AFENET, as CDC implementing partner, has been providing technical assistance to Angola Ministry of Health for the expansion of HIV Viral Load (VL) testing to monitor efficacy of HV antiretroviral treatment, and Early diagnosis of HIV (EID) in children born to HIV-positive mothers. While taking the first steps on point-of-care testing, the majority of tests are performed in high-throughput equipment at centralized laboratories, being the VL/EID samples collected in DBS cards at clinical sites &amp; transported to referral laboratories by car. AFENET was pioneer to start monitoring the turn-around-time (TAT) of VL/EID results, in order to optimize the sample referral system which, leads to faster clinical actions such as treatment initiation or regimen switch.</p>