Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 (2016), para. 039
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35. Note with deep concern the unacceptably low rates of testing and treatment coverage among children in developing countries, which are a result of social an d structural barriers similar to those that the adult population faces, as well as age- specific barriers, including low rates of early infant diagnosis, inadequate case - finding of children outside of prevention of mother-to-child transmission settings, long delays in returning test results, poor linking of children to treatment, lack of adequate training for health-care workers in paediatric HIV testing, treatment and care, challenges with long-term adherence, the limited number and inadequate availability of efficacious antiretroviral child-friendly formulations in certain countries and regions, stigma and discrimination, and lack of adequate social protection for children and caregivers;