Echezona E. Ezeanolue

All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.

With highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART), people living with HIV can achieve and maintain viral suppression below a detectable level, preventing transmission of HIV and AIDS-related mortality. 1 Undetectable viral load and HIV transmission dynamics on an individual and population level: where next in the global HIV response?. , 2 van der Loeff MFS Larke N Kaye S et al. Undetectable plasma viral load predicts normal survival in HIV-2-infected people in a West African village.

A theoretical framework serves as a roadmap for the implementation and application of a complex, health promotion intervention; is used to test hypotheses; and guides analysis and evaluation of the intervention. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how a theoretical framework was developed and used to guide the implementation of Healthy Beginning Initiative (HBI) to promote uptake of HIV services in a low-income country.