As countries make strides towards universal diagnosis, treatment and viral suppression for people living with HIV (PLHIV), implementing strategies to identify new HIV cases and rapidly intervening to stop the chain of transmission will be critical. This satellite session will focus on updates from the field on rolling out the rapid test for HIV recent infection (RTRI) as part of the Tracking with Recency Assays to Control the Epidemic (TRACE) project. The session will feature speakers from Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, and Vietnam who will share early results on leveraging the new testing technology to identify geographical clusters of new infections and targeting prevention efforts to halt ongoing transmission. The session will consider ethical aspects of RTRI in order to ensure the rights of PLHIV are protected, and representatives from civil society organizations will discuss the important role they play in interpreting and using the recency data.

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