RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, CMC – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) says it will collaborate with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to expand early HIV diagnosis in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The organisations said the aim is to improve access to testing, facilitate timely linkage to care, and help reduce preventable AIDS-related deaths.

Despite significant progress in the HIV response across Latin America and the Caribbean, late diagnosis remains one of the main challenges to reducing new HIV infections and AIDS-related mortality, and to advancing toward the elimination of HIV as a public health problem.